“First, I’ll have a bath. Then I’ll be shaved by a Turkish barber who will massage me down to the fingertips. Then I’ll buy a newspaper and read it from headlines to horoscope. On the first day, I’ll be waited upon… For requests, ask the neighbor. If someone stumbles over my legs, he’ll have to apologize. I’ll be pushed around, and I’ll push back. In the crowded bar, the bartender will find me a table. A service car will stop, and the mayor will take me aboard. I’ll be known to everyone, and suspect to no one. I won’t say a word, and will understand every language. That will be my first day. “
– Damiel (Bruno Ganz), Wings of Desire (1987), written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger
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HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO SITES I RUN ABOUT THE PERSON AND WORK OF PETER HANDKE
HANDKE LINKS + BLOGS
SCRIPTMANIA PROJECT MAIN SITE: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com
and 12 sub-sites
http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com [the drama lecture]
http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/realblog.html
[pertaining to scriptmania matters]
http://www.kultur.at/see/roloff.htm
[dem handke auf die schliche/ prosa, a book of mine about Handke]
http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/ [the current American Scholar caused controversy about Handke, reviews, detailed of Coury/Pilipp's THE WORKS OF PETER HANDKE]
http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com [some handke material, too, the Milosevic controversy summarized]
Wow, thanks for the links! I remember seeing Wings of Desire in Berkeley in 1987 with my wife, and we stayed up until 4AM discussing it. Curious, summa politico, which other movies with which Handke was involved would you recommend? Here’s his IMDB site.
And again, thanks for these other websites. I look forward to checking them out.