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5 unusual facts about Peter Handke


Jan Cornall

In 1973, Cornall performed alongside Red Symonds, lead guitarist of Skyhooks, in the play The Ride Across Lake Constance by German absurdist Peter Handke.

Malte Herwig

Peter Handke: Eine Biographie, München: DVA, 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04449-5

Marcel Bozonnet

In 2006, he was at the centre of a row following after he discontinued the production of a play by Peter Handke Voyage au pays sonore ou l'Art de la question, which was under negotiations in 2007.

Rüdiger Vogler

His film debut was in 1970 in a TV film "Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse" ("Chronicle of Current Events") by Peter Handke.

Later he played for six years at "Theater am Turm" in Frankfurt am Main, often in the plays by Peter Handke.


Grazer Autorenversammlung

Other writers who contributed to the foundation of the association, were Friedrich Achleitner, Wolfgang Bauer, Georg Bydlinski, Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Ernst Jandl, Alfred Kolleritsch, Friederike Mayröcker, Reinhard Priessnitz, Peter Rosei, Gerhard Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Michael Scharang, and Oswald Wiener.

Grazer Gruppe

An Austrian writers group centred on Graz, with notable writers among its ranks such as Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek and Barbara Frischmuth.

Mark Terrill

For over ten years he was a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, and in 2009 he was invited to guest-edit a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, which also featured his own translations of Peter Handke, Günter Grass, Nicolas Born, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and many others.


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