PETER HANDKE — BIN IM WALD. KANN SEIN, DASS ICH MICH VERSPÄTE...

In her new documentary, filmmaker Corinna Belz explores the enigma that is Peter Handke. His book titles read like the tunes on a jukebox, like the watchwords of several successive generations of readers: Offending the Audience, The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Short Letter, Long Farewell, and The Weight of the World. In the 60s, Handke showed how to walk the walk of the author-cum-popstar. Yet the moment he made the bestseller lists, he turned his back on all that. He went travel­ing, taking his readers along with him, into the rhythm and precision of his language, the long, pulsating sentences, the invention and examination of reality. The film shows Handke as a young man and in his daily life today, always devoted to language, posing the burning questions: Where are we now? And, to quote one of his early films: How to live?

Director

CORINNA BELZ has written, directed and produced numerous TV and feature films, including: LIFE AFTER MICROSOFT (2001), OTHER AMERICAN VOICES (2002), DREI WÜNSCHE (2005), DAS KÖLNER DOMFENSTER (2007), and GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (2011).