Posted on 06/26/2006 11:04:21 AM PDT by Bokababe
Peter Handke has once again shocked the German public but this time in such a way that not even the most extreme do not dare criticize him for it. He has given up the alternative Heinrich Heine award that the actors and intellectuals of Berlin wished to bestow upon him in favor of the Serbs of Kosovo, who live "surrounded by barbed wire and tanks".
www.novosti.co.yu Vecernje Novosti daily, Belgrade
June 24, 2006 By D. Sekulic, June 23, 2006
Peter Handke has once again shocked the German public but this time in such a way that not even the most extreme do not dare criticize him for it. He has given up the alternative Heinrich Heine award that the actors and intellectuals of Berlin wished to bestow upon him in favor of the Serbs of Kosovo, who live "surrounded by barbed wire and tanks".
The Berlin Ensemble, headed by the also frequently controversial Klaus Peymann, the famous former head of the Vienna Burgtheater, recently organized donations with the help of numerous actors to award Handke an alternative Heinrich Heine award in the amount of 50,000 euros. The highly prestigious German language award was awarded to Peter Handke by an expert jury in Dusseldorf but the city council refused to accept its decision, stating quite literally that the award could not go to a writer who is of pro-Serb orientation!
The case provoked spirited discussion and many concluded that it represented an instance of brutal political censure of literature. Local politicians are judging one of the greatest living writers in the German language, warned eminent intellectuals, among them some, like Nobel laureate Gunther Grass who at one time advocated the bombing of Serbia.
At the same time Handke informed Peymann and his friends that he is renouncing the alternative award as well because, as he had previously stated, he did not wish his work to be the subject of meddling by local politicians. The money that they collect should be sent to the Serb enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija to people who are living under impossible conditions thanks to the supporters of "freedom" imposed upon them by NATO bombs.
Grass dismisses jury
In Dusseldorf it has now been openly admitted that the decision really was of a political nature and that the Heinrich Heine award allegedly has a clearly political character. In response to this, Grass, who is highly influential, has sent a request that in the future the city council be stripped of the right to approve or reject the decision of the expert jury.
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Disputed Author Handke Awarded German Literary Prize
DEUTSCE WELLE 25.05.2006
Großansict des Bildes mit der Bildunterscrift: Austrian writer Peter Handke is controversial because of his stance on Serbia
Controversial Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke was awarded the city of Düseldorf's Heine Prize for literature.
The Heine Prize, endowed for 50,000 euros ($64,000), is one of the three highest-paying literature prizes in Germany. The jury said Handke -- like Heinric Heine, the German poet after whom the prize is named -- obstinately follows the way to an "open truth." He puts forth his own poetic world view, in contrast to broader public opinion, they said. The prize will be awared on Dec. 13.
Handke wrote the groundbreaking experimental play "Offending the Audience" and the novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick", but may be best know for writing the novel "Wings of Desire", whic was turned into a film by Wim Wenders.
Pro-Serbian stance
He is controversial because of his pro-Serbian stance during the Balkan wars, and his support for the Serbian regime.
Recently, Frenc national theatre Comédie-Française removed the play "Voyage to the Sonorous Land or the Art of Asking" from its 2007 season lineup, after Handke spoke at the burial of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic in Marc.
Handke, who lives in France, said in an esay in the Frenc newspaper Libération: "Let's stop laying the masacre . on the backs of the Serbian military and paramilitary. And listen -- at last -- to the survivors of the Muslim masacres in numerous Serbian villages around Srebrenica."
'Glad' aceptance
Last year, Handke's publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag, said the author would categorically refuse any more literature prizes; in Paris, however, Handke said he would "gladly" acept the Heine Prize.
Up to now, winners of the Heine Prize have included Walter Jens, Günter Kunert, Max Frisc, Wolf Biermann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Elfriede Jelinek und Robert Gernhardt.
Tudjman wasn't Ustasha. He just kissed their asses and was pretty much just another idiot politician.
against the US as it has two World Wars before? Probably!
Ouch!
Good broadside shot!!
Take care,
BR
How was he an idiot? He managed to create an independent state after almost 900 years of not having one, against the odds? That certainly isn't idiotic. The idiots were the ones who ran the RSK parastate who managed to screw up so badly that they lost everything after being promised by everyone that they'd get almost everything if they just toned it down a bit.
Tudjman was not an Ustasha
Good lord, that's the most simple-minded comment you've made to date! Because he became a Nazi Croat nationalist late in life, when he could garner no more advantage from being a Marxist stooge.
Actually, he was second after the Quisling Ante Pavelich and by following all of this patterns and policies.
Sorry, but he wasn't a National Socialist. Croatian Nationalism is not Nazi. I guess logic isn't your strong suit.
Like including Serbs in government and the army? Like offering Serbs autonomy? Like instituting multiparty democracy? I guess facts really don't matter to you one bit.
Yep, about one third of their pre war total, remniscent of the Ustashi pledge to exile one third, kill one third, and convert one third.
The Croat thugs are nothing if not consistent.
...especially in the Croatian armed forces.
Conscripts, in other words, with their families held as hostage, no doubt.
Yet he wasn't one. Your weak attempts at character assassination are just that: weak. Stop being a sore loser.
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, Croat Ustashi = Nazis.
Who ordered pancakes?
so by fighting the Ustasha in WW2 he is an Ustasha. Yep, according to your logic, the Jews who fought the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising are themselves Nazis. LMFAO
No, oh dim Darko, he became a Ustashi long after WW2. You read the article about him going Croat nationalist in the 70's, choke on it. LOL at the dim Ustashi!
Are you tired of embarassing yourself yet?
"Dobroslav Paraga (born December 9, 1960) is a Croatian politician.
In his early days Dobroslav Paraga used to advocate secession of Croatia from Yugoslavia and that led him to be persecuted by Communist authorities. Paraga used that persecution as an argument against Yugoslavia and its low human rights standards. Because of that he became one of the best known dissidents.
When multi-party system arrived in Croatia, Paraga initially joined Croatian Democratic Union of Franjo Tuðman. However, new party proved not to be radical enough for his taste, so he and his followers founded Croatian Party of Rights (HSP).
While Tuðman saw Croatian path of independence through negotiations with Slobodan Miloševiæ, Paraga formed the growing chorus of those who preferred direct and resolute military action against Krajina Serbs and Yugoslav People's Army. Because of that his party formed its own militia Croatian Defence Forces (Croatian: Hrvatske obrambene snage, HOS). The party militia became very noticeable for its use of black uniforms and Ustasha insignia, while Paraga himself advocated creation of Croatia that would include Bosnia and Herzegovina and large sections of today's Serbia and Montenegro.
At first, this extremism proved benefitial to Tuðman, making the hawks of his own party look mild in comparison, but as Croatian military fortunes in 1991 deteriorated, Paraga's growing popularity, together with his militia, began to look like a serious threat to Croatian government. Reaction came in the form of arrests, indictments and all kinds of intimidation towards HSP and HOS members, including some HSP members being assassinated in mysterious circumstances. This campaign gradually subsided with HOS units formally joining Croatian Army and escalation of war in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina..
Paraga and HSP had high hopes of becoming the major political factor before 1992 presidential and parliamentary elections, but those hopes, despite HSP colourful rallies being well-attended, didn't materialised in desired result. HSP did enter Croatian Parliament and Paraga came fourth among presidential candidates, but it was clear that the party was far from its zenith. Another blow came in the form of high treason charges against Paraga and his associate Anto Ðapiæ, who were stripped of their parliamentary immunity.
Those charges were ultimately dropped....."
So in other words, Tudjman used Paraga to make himself and his party look "less radical" by comparison, and when Paraga got too popular, he got rid of him with indictments which were later dropped.
That's politically knocking off someone because they got in your way -- not because they are ideologically different, as you have suggested.
The fact is that Tudjman was willing to do ANYTHING and court ANYONE who could give Croatia independence. The support and money in the Croat diaspora for indpendence came from the escaped WWII Ustashe and their families. So Tudjman made a deal with the devil -- and that deal with the Ustashe will haunt Croatia for the rest of its existence.
Including making deals with Milosevic.
And yes, there is no problem in seeking help from others for the sake of independence, a wholly noble cause. This also does not make one an Ustasha.
So Tudjman made a deal with the devil -- and that deal with the Ustashe will haunt Croatia for the rest of its existence.
ROFL...Serbian hyperbole. Thanks for your "advice" but no thanks.
And this was wrong because.....?
Just admit Tudjman was an Ustashe-supporter and used their unwavering support. His denying the Serbian populace any security assurances, yet plays lipservice but turns the blindeye to all crimes against Croatian Serbs.
You double-talk and all the Intel/S2 or G2 level intel you worked in provides you with the data to double speak intelligently. Being knowledgeable with History as well. I commend you, D.
However, we both know my knowledge refutes your BS. Things are not always what they seem, D.
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