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"Do not ask me such questions!": Peter Handke does not want to talk to journalists anymore

2019-10-16T10:41:30.621Z


An informal meeting in Carinthia to celebrate Peter Handke escalated on Tuesday evening. The Nobel laureate responded to critical questions fiercely and later canceled a media meeting.



On Tuesday evening, the newly crowned Nobel laureate Peter Handke was honored in his old home town of Griffen in Carinthia. An informal meeting with the mayor of Greifner Josef Müller and the Carinthian governor Peter Kaiser was scheduled. However, according to ORF, the meeting escalated when Handke was approached by journalists present on Sašsa Stanišsic's criticism of his award.

In his acceptance speech for the awarding of the German Book Prize, Stanisšić sharply criticized Handke's submission to Serbia in the 1990s, accusing him of denying crimes during the war in Yugoslavia. "The fact that I am allowed to stand in front of you today," says Bosnian-born Stanišsic, "is due to a reality that this person has not acquired."

Faced with these allegations, Handke responded on Tuesday evening indignant: "I stand in front of my garden gate," as can be heard in an audio recording of the ORF, "and there are 50 journalists - and all ask only how you, and by no one, who comes to me, I hear something that he says that he has read something from me, that he knows what I've written, it's (sic!) only the questions: how does the world react? reaction to reaction to reaction I am a writer, come from Tolstoy, I come from Homer, I come from Cervantes, and leave me in peace and do not ask me such questions! "

Handke was no longer available for further statements. According to ORF, he even later added that he would never again answer journalist questions.

On Wednesday afternoon, the actual honoring Handke was held in Griffen with an official media meeting, but this was canceled Wednesday morning surprisingly. There should not be a replacement date.

Source: spiegel

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