Peter Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke [Offending the Audience]

Piet Defraeye (University of Alberta)

Ed. by Jennifer Marston William, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.2: German-language Writing and Culture: Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 800-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1966

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Play

Resources

Peter Handke’s first produced play, Offending the Audience [original title Publikumsbeschimpfung, also translated as The Audience Abused and as Public Insult], premiered in June, 1966, as part of the inaugural “Experimenta” arts festival in Frankfurt. Initially Handke, who had recently gained a reputation as an experimental novelist with his début novel Die Hornissen [The Hornets, 1966], had a hard time finding a willing and suitable forum to have his theatrical endeavour produced. The prominent publishing house Suhrkamp had published the play, together with two other so-called “Sprechstücke”, but no theatre was apparently interested in mounting it, which makes it one of those very …

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Citation: Defraeye, Piet. "Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20936, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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