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Handke Peter
(b. 1942)

Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. Handke and his mother (a Carinthian Slovene whose suicide in 1971 is the subject of Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, a reflection on her life) lived in East Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen. According to some of his biographers, his stepfather Bruno's alcoholism... More...

German Federal Republic, 1995, Scene from film «The Sky Over Berlin»