Peter Handke

• Writer, playwright and director, born in Austria in 1942.$

  While studying Law, Peter Handke decided to entirely devote himself to writing, after the publication of his first novel The Hornets. This was the start of an outstanding literary and theatrical oeuvre, which broke with the realistic codes of the period. His sensorial writing deals with existential and everyday questions. His novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) was adapted to film by Wim Wenders under the new English title of The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972). This collaboration was later extended with The Wrong Move (1975) and Wings of Desire (1978) for which Peter Handke wrote the screenplays. In 1978, he directed the adaptation of his novel The Left-Handed Woman (Georges Sadoul Prize), starring Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, followed by Absence, with Jeanne Moreau. Plurilingual, he is notably the translator into German of Francis Ponge, Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, Emmanuel Bove, and René Char. In 2019, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, which consecrated him as one of the greatest writers of his time.

  ©  Ruth Walz / sur le tournage de L'Absence

• Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse (TV film, 1971) - The Left-Handed Woman (1978) - The Absence (1992)