Editing Peter Handke (section)

=== Career ===
While studying, Handke established himself as a writer, linking up with the ''[[Grazer Gruppe]]'' (the [[Graz]] Authors' Assembly), an association of young writers.<ref name="Wenders" /> The group published a magazine on literature, ''{{ill|manuskripte|de}}'', which published Handke's early works.<ref name="Britannica" /> Group members included [[Wolfgang Bauer (writer)|Wolfgang Bauer]] and [[Barbara Frischmuth]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wakounig |first1=Marija |title=East Central Europe at a Glance: People – Cultures – Developments |date=2018 |publisher=[[LIT Verlag]] |location=Munster, Germany |isbn=978-3-643-91046-2 |page=302 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQKDDwAAQBAJ |access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

Handke abandoned his studies in 1965,<ref name="Britannica" /> after the German publishing house [[Suhrkamp Verlag]] accepted his novel ''{{ill|Die Hornissen|de}} (The Hornets)'' for publication.<ref name="Suhrkamp" /> He gained international attention after an appearance at a meeting of [[avant-garde]] artists belonging to the [[Gruppe 47]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]], in 1966.<ref name="Hutchinson" /> The same year, his play ''[[Offending the Audience|Publikumsbeschimpfung]]'' (''Offending the Audience'') premiered at the {{ill|Theater am Turm|de}} in Frankfurt, directed by {{ill|Claus Peymann|de}}.<ref name="Suhrkamp" /><ref name="Hutchinson" /> Handke became one of the co-founders of the publishing house {{ill|Verlag der Autoren|de}} in 1969 with a new commercial concept, as it belonged to the authors.<ref>Martin Lüdke: [https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/50-jahre-verlag-der-autoren-mit-enthusiasmus-gegruendet.932.de.html?dram:article_id=443223 50 Jahre "Verlag der Autoren" / Mit Enthusiasmus gegründet] Deutschlandfunk, 11 March 2019</ref> He co-founded the [[Grazer Autorenversammlung]] in 1973<ref>[https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/343066/40-Jahre-Grazer-Autorenversammlung 40 Jahre Grazer Autorenversammlung] ORF 15 June 2013</ref> and was a member until 1977.<ref name="Wenders" />

Handke's first play, ''[[Offending the Audience|Publikumsbeschimpfung]]'' (''Offending the Audience''), which premiered in Frankfurt in 1966 and made him well known,<ref name="Hutchinson" /> was the first of several experimental plays without a conventional plot.<ref name="Britannica" /> In his second play, ''[[Kaspar (play)|Kaspar]]'', he treated the story of [[Kaspar Hauser]] as "an allegory of conformist social pressures".<ref name="Hutchinson" />

Handke collaborated with director [[Wim Wenders]] on [[The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty|a film version]] of ''[[The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick|Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter]]'', wrote the script for ''[[The Wrong Move|Falsche Bewegung]]'' (''The Wrong Move'') and co-wrote the screenplay for ''[[Wings of Desire|Der Himmel über Berlin]]'' (''Wings of Desire'') including the poem at its opening and ''[[The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez|Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez]]'' (''The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez''). He also directed films, including adaptations from his novels ''[[The Left-Handed Woman]]'' after ''Die linkshändige Frau'', and ''[[The Absence (1992 film)|The Absence]]'' after ''Die Abwesenheit''.<ref name="Britannica" /><ref name="Wenders" /> ''The Left-Handed Woman'', was released in 1978 and was nominated for the [[Palme d'Or|Golden Palm Award]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 1978 and won the Gold Award for German Arthouse Cinema in 1980. ''[[Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide]]'s'' description of the film is that a woman demands that her husband leave and he complies. "Time passes... and the audience falls asleep." Handke also won the 1975 German Film Award in Gold for his screenplay for ''[[The Wrong Move|Falsche Bewegung]]'' (''The Wrong Move''). Since 1975, Handke has been a jury member of the European literary award [[Petrarca-Preis]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Petrarca Preis |url=http://www.petrarca-preis.de/ |website=www.petrarca-preis.de |access-date=11 October 2019 |language=de}}</ref>

In 2019, Handke was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."<ref name=Nobel/>