Vienna - According to German and Austrian literary critics, the former partner of Peter Handke, the Austrian actress Marie Colbin, now draws against the Proserbian writer. Colbin describes Handke in an open letter as violent and self-loving. "I can still hear my head popping on the stone floor, I can still feel the mountain shoe in the abdomen and the fist on my face", Handke's longtime companion describes her suffering in the Austrian magazine "Format". Later, the complaint becomes a general lamentation about men and war: "As long as there are men in this world - men like you - one-eyed, unyielding, power-hungry and ego-broad - there will be weapons and wars."
DPA
Marie Colbin as Marianne Bachmeier in Hark Bohm's film "No time for tears"
The billing sounds like she's in the midst of a separation dispute, but the relationship is two years old. Colbins anger was caused by the self-confident interviews that Handke had given German and Austrian media in recent weeks: "Who are you that you take yourself so important? Are not tall, noble or even modest and sincere." A vain writer You are the one who always plays the role of the 'lonely caller' ".The actress attacks the opponent of the NATO mission in Kosovo: "Somehow you will be grateful for this war, because it perversely satisfies your insatiable desire for public recognition."
Marie Colbin starred in films by Edgar Reitz, Robert van Ackeren and Peter Schamoni. She became known for her role as Marianne Bachmeier in the feature film "Der Fall Bachmeier - No Time for Tears" (1984), shot by Hark Bohm. Together with her then-life partner Peter Handke, who directed, was born in 1985, the one-hour television play "La Maladie de la Mort" (The illness of death) after a text by Marguerite Duras. Since the television play "Die Walsche" (1986), Marie Colbin has become quiet. She lives today as a photographer and author in Salzburg and Berlin.
