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Sunday, December 26, 2010

MARIE COLBIN'S OFFENER BRIEF AN PETER HANDKE VON 1999 DER GANZE TEXT

OFFENER 
BRIEF 
AN 
PETER 
HANDKE 
VON 
MARIE 
COLBIN 
IM 
MAI 
1999


dieser 
brief 
wurde 
in 
der 
oesterr. 
zeitschrift 
format 
genau 
so 
gedruckt. 
Alle 
sagen, 
Du 
liebst 
das 
Land 
der 
Serben. 
Ich 
sage: 
Du 
liebst 
vor 
allem 
Dich 
in 
diesem 
Land! 
Auch 
ich 
liebe 
Tofu, 
die 
zugelaufene 
Katze, 
und 
deren 
Kinder 
– 
Buddha, 
Congo, 
Sanso 
und 
Patti 
Smith. 
Ich 
liebe 
dieses 
Katzenrudel 
sehr 
und 
trage 
dafür 
die 
Verantwortung. 
Nur, 
wenn 
Tofu 
einen 
Vogel 
bringt 
und 
ihn 
vor 
meinen 
Augen 
glühend 
zerbeisst 
– 
ihn 
lustvoll 
tötet, 
dann 
empfinde 
ich 
vor 
allem 
Liebe 
für 
den 
Vogel! 
Und 
wenn 
der 
Arme 
nur 
verletzt 
ist 
oder 
geschockt, 
dann 
eile 
ich 
und 
handle! 
Ich 
versuche 
alles, 
um 
ihn 
zu 
retten, 
ihm 
zu 
helfen, 
ihn 
zu 
heilen. 
Als 
vorbeugende 
Massnahme 
trägt 
Tofu 
nun 
eine 
Glocke 
um 
den 
Hals. 
Ein 
bimmelndes 
Warnsignal 
für 
die 
Vögel. 
Wo 
ist 
Dein 
„Warnsignal“ 
für 
die 
unzähligen 
massakrierten, 
gedemütigten 
und 
vertriebenen 
Kosovaren 
geblieben? 
Wo 
Dichter, 
sind 
da 
Deine 
Worte 
verlorengegangen? 
Bist 
nicht 
auch 
Du 
mitverantwortlich 
für 
diesen 
Krieg? 
Nichts 
hast 
Du 
im 
Vorfeld 
für 
den 
Frieden 
getan! 
Warum 
nicht? 
Einäugig 
wütest 
Du 
um 
Dich. 
Weiter 
und 
weiter. 
Handke 
– 
abgelichtet 
vor 
einer 
bombardierten 
Fabrik 
in 
Belgrad. 
Oh, 
welch 
eitles 
Getue, 
welch 
lächerliches, 
hohles 
Pathos! 
Der 
Indianer 
auf 
Kriegspfad, 
als 
letzter 
Serbianer. 
Fühlst 
Du 
Dich 
nun 
als 
Held 
in 
Deinem 
„Einbaum“ 
und 
paddelst 
so 
weiter? 
Erinnere 
Dich 
an 
unsere 
„Manöver--Geschichte“! 
Vor 
genau 
zwölf 
Jahren, 
am 
14.April 
1987, 
kurz 
bevor 
ich 
Dich 
für 
immer 
verlassen 
habe, 
gingen 
wir 
im 
jugoslawischen 
Karst 
des 
Weges. 
Plötzlich 
wurden 
wir 
aufgeschreckt 
durch 
rumpelnde 
Panzer 
und 
lautes 
Geknalle 
irgendwelcher 
Schützen. 
Wir 
gerieten 
mitten 
in 
einen 
gespielten 
Krieg. 
Du 
sagtest 
damals:“ 
Im 
Krieg 
ist 
alles 
besser. 
Da 
geht´s 
um 
was!“ 
Geht´s 
dir 
nun 
besser, 
Dichter? 
Ich 
glaube 
beinahe, 
ja. 
Irgendwie 
wirst 
Du 
diesem 
Krieg 
dankbar 
sein, 
denn 
er 
befriedigt 
auf 
perverse 
Weise 
Dein 
unstillbares 
Verlangen 
nach 
öffentlicher 
Anerkennung. 
Dein 
Ego 
bläht 
sich 
weit 
und 
breit, 
und 
es 
widert 
mich 
an. 
250.000 
TOTE 
und 
zwei 
Millionen 
Vertriebene 
aus 
Bosnien! 
Über 
eine 
Million 
Vertriebene 
aus 
dem 
Kosovo! 
Und 
Du 
festgebissen 
im 
Fell 
Deiner 
„Einaughaltung“ 
– 
rechtfertigst 
ein 
nationalistisches, 
chauvinistisches 
und 
rassistisches 
Regime. 
In 
einer 
absurden 
Verdrehung 
von 
Ursache 
und 
Wirkung 
legitimierst 
Du 
Völkermord 
und 
Deportation. 
Bewusst 
vertauschst 
Du 
die 
Rollen 
der 
Opfer 
und 
Täter. 
Und 
was 
ist 
zynischer 
und 
verletzender, 
als 
die 
Bilder 
des 
Grauens 
selbst 
verantwortlich 
zu 
machen? 
Schämst 
Du 
Dich 
gar 
nicht? 
Wenn 
Du 
einen 
Preis 
in 
Belgrad 
entgegennimmst, 
Dein 
Stück 
dort 
zum 
jetzigen 
Zeitpunkt 
inszenieren 
oder 
dich 
gar 
zum 
edlen 
„Ritter“schlagen 
lässt, 
so 
ist 
das 
Deine 
bewusste 
Zustimmung 
zur 
Blut--Politk 
des 
Diktators 
Milosevic! 
Das 
ist 
Dein 
Beitrag 
zur 
„ethnischen 
Säuberung“! 
Ja, 
ich 
höre 
Deine 
abgedroschenen, 
vulgären 
Phrasen:“ 
Ich 
scheisse 
auf 
Eure 
Menchenrechte. 
Ich 
scheisse 
auf 
Eure 
bedrohten 
Völker. 
Steckt 
Euch 
die 
Toten 
in 
den 
Arsch!“ 
Wer 
bist 
Du 
denn, 
dass 
Du 
Dich 
so 
wichtig 
nimmst? 
Bist 
weder 
gross 
noch 
edel 
oder 
gar 
bescheiden 
und 
aufrichtig. 
Ein 
eitler 
Schreiber 
bist 
Du, 
der 
sich 
sonnt 
in 
der 
Rolle 
des 
„einsamen 
Rufers“. 
Nur 
sind 
das 
Rufe 
nach 
Zustimmung 
für 
ein 
Verbrecherregime. 
Du 
bist 
ein 
Ideologe 
des 
modernen 
Balkanfaschismus. 

2 
Dein 
kitschiges, 
verklärtes, 
„Grasbüschel--Weltbild“ 
bekommt 
leider 
wieder 
einmal 
viel 
zu 
viel 
Aufmerksamkeit, 
und 
ich 
wundere 
mich 
sehr, 
auf 
welch 
banaler, 
Wein--seliger 
Grundlage 
Deine 
Befürworter 
sich 
auslassen. 
Dein 
kleines 
dramatisches 
Stückchen 
gibt 
dem 
Krieg 
nicht 
ein 
konkretes 
Gesicht. 
Es 
stellt 
sich 
nicht 
gegen 
die 
ungeheuren 
Ausmasse 
der 
Auslöschung 
von 
Individualität 
(selbst 
tote 
Gesichter 
werden 
mit 
Baseballschlägern 
unkenntlich 
gemacht), 
sondern 
ist 
Ausfluss 
deiner 
aggressiven 
Eitelkeit. 
Ich 
bin 
Pazifistin. 
Und 
wenn´s 
nach 
mir 
ginge, 
gäbe 
es 
nicht 
eine 
Waffe 
auf 
Erden! 
Jedoch 
weiss 
ich, 
solange 
es 
Männer 
gibt 
auf 
dieser 
Welt 
– 
Männer 
wie 
Dich: 
einäugig, 
unnachgiebig, 
machthungrig 
und 
Ego--breit 
--, 
wird 
es 
auch 
Waffen 
geben 
und 
somit 
Kriege. 
Ich 
höre 
noch 
meinen 
Kopf 
auf 
den 
Steinboden 
knallen. 
Ich 
spüre 
wieder 
den 
Bergschuh 
im 
Unterleib 
und 
auch 
die 
Faust 
im 
Gesicht. 
Nein 
– 
Du 
bist 
kein 
Mann 
des 
Friedens! 
---- 
MARIE 
COLBIN 
IM 
MAI 
1999

Monday, May 10, 2010

LEAD PAGE, PERIODICALLY UPDATED

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/11/handke-steinfeld-jugoslavien-interview.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2018/05/scott-abbbot-on-translating-journey-to.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/12/marie-colbins-offener-brief-peter.html

Http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/07/letter-to-faz-about-their-censorship.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/07/english-language-interview-with-handke.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/10/excerpt-from-malte-herwig-handke-bio.html
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http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2011/06/wandel-der-handke-rezeption-mit.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2011/08/handkes-politische-serben-klage.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2012/11/stephan-jungk-peter-handkes-serbische.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2014/05/durantayes-infamy.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2015/05/handke-wettert-gegen-westliche-politiker.html

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2015/12/handke-my-place-is-with-you.html

NEWS + LINKS

DRAMA

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2014/03/handke-wins-ibsen-prize.html

http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2012/09/handke-in-seattle.html

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2014/01/los-hermosos-dias-de-aranjuez-de-peter.html

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2013/07/par-les-villages-avignon-handkes.html

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/2013/01/dde-arbeit-des-zuschauers-handke.html

http://handke-watch.blogspot.com/2012/06/handkes-forever-storm-wins-muehlheim.html

http://handke-watch.blogspot.com/2013/04/nikolic-awarded-gold-medal-to-handke.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/08/essay-assaying-fool-for-mushrooms.html

http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/full-length-review-of-herwigs-handke.html

http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2012/12/comments-on-nyu-deutsches-haus-handke.html

MORAVIAN NIGHTS

one of these days FARRARM STRAUS will publish it!!!

http://moravian-nights-discussion.blogspot.com/2012/06/moravian-nights-discussion-blog-will-do.html

So the only question I propose to address is how it came to be that within such a short time there was this kind of general unanimity. It is a cold case investigation; and why the outrage and hatred of anyone, such as Handke, who took a different, and far more experienced position. I do not want to repeat everything I said in my opening salvo, a letter to David Rieff

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/opening-salvo-open-letter-decimation-of.html

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1] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-page-for-pages-of-this-blog.html

2] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/lead-page-periodically-updated_10.html

3] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/opening-salvo-open-letter-decimation-of.html

4] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/psychoanalytic-page-mass-and-class_15.html

5] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/summary-of-handke-yugo-controrsy.html

6] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/austrian-writer-peter-handke-european.html

7] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/voyage-by-dugout-play-that-came-out-of_10.html

8] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/dear-mrrs-sulzberger-kelleret-al-i.html

9] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/back-ground-texts-habermas-etc.html

10] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-breviary-of-handke-position.html

11] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/handke-die-tablas-des-daimiel-with.html

12] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/discussion-page.html

13] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/consequences.html

14] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/history-of-yugo-slavia-and-its-break-up.html

15] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/human-rights-watch-resource-for-crimes.html

16] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/interviews-with-handke-about-his.html

17] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/cross-sections-of-opinions-on.html

18] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-futher-handke-pieces-in-german-on.html

19] http:/handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/gerechtigkeit-fuer-serbien-by-peter.html

20] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/sorting-out-handkes-intervention-in.html

21] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-is-first-piece-i-wrote-on-subject.html

22] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-summary-of-handke-yugo.html

23] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/handke-yugoslav-intervention-reception.html

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http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-to-scott-abbotts-work-on-handke.html

25] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-summary-take-on-handkes.html

Friday, May 7, 2010

Dear Mrrs. Sulzberger, Keller,et al, I wanted to invite you to participate in an online forum, described below

intra-links between the now

20 pages of this blog at the end

Dear Mrrs. Sulzberger, Keller,et al, I wanted to invite you to participin a matter in which the NY Times in the 90s played a significant role, especially its Magazine and the chief whip in the demonization of the Serbs and Milosevic, the winner of the recent "most boring pundit" award - Roger Cohen redeemed himself at least in one respect in my humor book by being a good sport about this silliness. Just look up Roger Cohen + Yugoslavia, and if there isn't a photo essay by him where Milosevic is said to have set every house afire. Not even that dubious court in De Hague took such a one-sided course, and it was not until Steve Erlanger became Belgrade Bureau chief that at least some of what is called equanimity in your line of business entered your reporting. Look up my take on how that cookie crumbled at the handke-yugo blogspot.

It appears that your paper when it comes to matters of this kind takes a kind of whole-sale approach worthy of the background color on which I am writing this.

Your coverage of the De Haag trials was so limited I can't tell whether it was the small amount you devoted to it or Ms. Marlise Simon's fault. Perhaps you ought to give your wonderful film critics and Mr. Pogue and Ms. Angier some time in the field to address question of that kind with their literary and technical ability to discern and give just accounts.

I put it to you, you too might redeem your paper by publishing a translation of Handke's recent The Cuckoos of Velica Hoca. Mr. Handke, who became roadkill in this country for taking a different and much better informed position and who as a writer on the order of Flaubert, Goethe [as a person I feel deeply ambivalent although I know that he can be an angel and not only as a writer] and who as a writer is the best that the West affords our melancholy monkey spirits, has finally stopped just cussing at journalists, and proves to set the bar so high with that short book that there is something better to aim at than George Orwell.

My very best to you all.

I am proposing to do an online inquiry, a post mortem, on the two matters in the subject
line of this communication, two related subjects, the second arising out of the former,
at the developing http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/
and wanted to ask you to join in or forward this communication to
those who you think might be interested in:
[1] A narrowly focused discussion on how it came to be that the Serbians and then Milosevic
were made responsible for the disintegration and the great majority of war crimes committed there; while
each of the formers parts of the federation were encouraged in their nationalist longings but for the Serbians.

For both my points I use as a focus the following observation of Noam Chomsky's:

"The nefarious atrocities regularly elicit religious

fervor, dramatic posturing, baseless claims to inflate

them as much as possible - and fury if anyone does

not blindly join the parade, but seeks to determine

the truth, cites the most reputable authorities
exposes the innumerable fabrications.

The common reaction to such treachery is an impressive

torrent of deceit. There is an instructive record,

quite well documented in many cases. The reasons are

not hard to explain. The topic should be pursued

systematically, but that is unlikely, obviously." Naom Chomsky
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article1222253.ece

[2] why was Peter Handke, [a] as a the person, and then [b] his writing showered and continues to be with such
obloquy for having a different view of this matter, and writing about it in a language of his own.

Is this a question of mass psychology, the mass in this case being the bien pensant - in France, Germany, the UK and here in the US ?

I am launching it now herewith after having put a fair amount of primary material on to the blog
and beginning it with a decimation of what I regard as a typical piece of writing on the subject of both Yugoslavia and Peter Handke, it is a review of "JOURNEY TO THE RIVERS [JUSTICE FOR SERBIA] by Davied Rieff and appeared in the L.A. Times Book Review which at that timewas edited by Steve Wasserman.

Let me summarize my own, at this point, fairly firmly held positions - elaborated on line at http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/ - on both points, as I have arrived at them after considerable thought and investigation, in the case of personal acquaintance and deep involvement and knowledge of his work, going back nearly fifty years.

[A] pertaining to the history of the disintegration, of what I regard as having been a tinderbox in the making, in part due to the economic warfare conducted by the Reagan Administration; where the assigning of blame however, so I hope, will give way to what an analyst calls "understanding" - i.e. I am examining a "cold case" - that dog is dead - how did he die - why does the corpse look like that - why did so many peoples whose "goodness" and good intentions I do not question [though well I might] arrive at those conclusions [I mean I know some of the answers of course, or at least think I do] and why did they become so vengeful to anyone who disagreed with their position. and if they were editors of magazines, the new york review, the new republic, the ny times magazine to mention only a few, close their pages to disagreement, including their letter to the editors space.

[2], how Handke, who took a very different opposing tack to the general humanity hyenas,
and refused to talk their language, then became as it were "collateral" damage;
I wish that Handke himself were St. Francis and pure
as the driven snow, but that is not the case either, since being in the opposition,
being righteous in his own particular
way invariably involves exhibitionistic, self-displaying motives.,
and his public comments, as compared to his writings, manifested rather uncivilized manners,
he of course is/ was scarcely the only one
so motivated. good girl good American girl Susan Sontag rehearsing endgame of whatever in Sarajevo,
was another but entirely one-eyed humanity hyena.

Most material is posted already, as is a sharp polemic addressed
to one particular piece of writing which manifests the points I have in mind.

I can also send the pieces and the background material either as word docs or as pdf if you dislike reading on the web

best ever,

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-to-scott-abbotts-work-on-handke.html


I dare anyone to find a piece by Roger Cohen or any of the Op-Ed contributors to the NY Times, or in the pages of the NY Times Magazine

during the past twenty yea

[but for Eric Posner, link below]

who mention the culpability of any of the other tribes,

question any of the underlying assumptions
any of the legalities
provide a time line
express the slightest interest in the question of
"interests"
have a historians, not necessarily overly complex
take on the disintegration of the 2nd Federation

or who mention the US National Security Directives from the 80s.

 If there has ever been a Serb and Milosevic hunt it occurred in the NY Times...not until a recent obit for a Bosniam Muslim General is there mention of the 1000 Mujahadeem fighting along side, wherever they came from, who created them, ex nihilo it appear

Human rights hyenas... the only variation being in their shrillness... overall  becomes a uniform, overwhelming chorus... legal scholars, journalists, writers.

An amazing instance of brainwashing by a major newspaper.



http://query.nytimes.com/search/alternate/query?query=roger+cohen&st=fromcse

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=roger+cohen&more=date_all

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/contributors/index.html?match=any&query=serbia&submit.x=18&submit.y=11&submit=Search



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/opinion/30posner.html

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