Kosovo Declares Nobel Laureate Handke Unwelcome

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Kosovo declared Peter Handke persona non grata Wednesday in the latest protest against his induction as a Nobel literature laureate, barring the Austrian writer from a place he has visited numerous times. 
 
The Swedish Academy's pick for the 2019 prize, which Handke received Tuesday, offended many in the Balkans who see him as an apologist for Serb war crimes during the conflicts that fractured the former Yugoslavia. 
 
One Nobel committee member resigned over the choice, while the ceremony was boycotted by representatives of the embassies of Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Turkey. 
 
"Today I have decided to declare Peter Handke as not welcome in Kosovo. He is a non grata person from today. Denying crimes and supporting criminals is a terrible crime," Kosovo's Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli wrote on Facebook. 

Milosevic funeral

Handke has drawn especially acute criticism for speaking at the funeral of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 while on trial for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. 
 
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority fought Belgrade for independence in a 1998-99 war that claimed 13,000 lives. 
 
Handke was a frequent guest in the tiny Serb enclave of Velika Hoca, one of several small ethnic Serb communities that are scattered around the former Serbian province. 

Handke visited Velika Hoca at least five times, most recently in 2014, and donated nearly 100,000 euros to the village of 500 people. 

He was also formally barred Wednesday from Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, where the regional government said his appearance would "provoke the anger and humiliation" of war victims. 

Srebrenica massacre

Handke's elevation to Nobel laureate has been painful for many Bosnian Muslims. He is accused of questioning the Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Serbs slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. 
 
In 1997, Handke was accused of minimizing Serb war crimes in his book "A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia." 
 
But he is still welcome to visit the Serb-run region that spans nearly half of Bosnia's territory — a legacy of the war that left the country carved up along ethnic lines. 
 
On Tuesday, Handke told a TV channel in Bosnia's Serb-run region that he would like to visit "in the spring." 
 
Among his Serb fans, Handke is celebrated for taking note of their suffering during the conflicts and challenging the narrative that Serbs were the sole aggressors in the wars. 
 
In Belgrade, one MP proposed creating a human rights prize in Handke's name on Wednesday. 

December 12, 2019 at 05:13AM

Hellmuth Matiasek

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'''Hellmuth Matiasek''', also '''Helmuth Matiasek''',<ref name="Matiasek_Diss_1958">Helmuth Matiasek: ''Die Komik der Clowns''. Dissertation. Universität Wien, Vienna 1958, [https://ift.tt/2skGqWV ONB];<br />Helmuth Matiasek (et al.): ''Schönbrunner Schloßtheater (…) Mittwoch, den 25. Juni 1952 (…) Freitag, den 27. Juni 1952 (…) Festvorstellung zum 100jähr(igen) Bestand der Schauspielschue Glück, Missbrauch und Rückkehr oder Das Geheimnis des grauen Hauses (…)''. Bildliche Darstellung. Elbemühl, Wien 1952. – [https://ift.tt/2t5trZH Image online].</ref> (born 15 May 1931) is an Austrian [[theatre director]].

== Training ==
Born in Vienna, Matiasek studied directing and acting at the [[Max-Reinhardt-Seminar]] of the [[Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien]] as well as [[theatre studies]], [[musicology]], [[German studies]] and philosophy at the [[University of Vienna]] and completed his studies in 1958<ref name="Matiasek_Diss_1958"/> with the promotion to [[Doctorate|Dr.phil.]].

== Theatre ==
In 1953 Matiasek founded the avant-garde theatre ''Kaleidoskop'' in Vienna, today's ''Atelier-Theater'', and acted as its director. In 1955 he worked as a director at the [[Salzburger Landestheater]] and in 1960 under the direction of [[Oscar Fritz Schuh]] at the Städtische Bühnen Köln, before taking over the directorship of the Salzburger Landestheater from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1967, Matiasek was [[general director]] of the [[Staatstheater Braunschweig]], from 1978 to 1983 he held the same position at the [[Wuppertaler Bühnen]] and from 1983 to 1996 he was director of the [[Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz]] in Munich. 1997-2008 Matiasek was [[artistic director]] of the in [[Andechs]], and from 2000 to 2003 at the same time president of the [[Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding]].

In addition to his permanent engagements, Matiasek has directed as a guest numerous stages in Germany and abroad, including the [[Hamburgische Staatsoper]], the [[Deutsches Schauspielhaus]] in Hamburg, the Theater am [[Kurfürstendamm]] and the in Berlin, the in Munich, the [[Münchner Kammerspiele]], the [[Staatstheater Stuttgart]], the [[Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe]], the [[Theater Bremen]], the [[Burgtheater]] in Vienna, as well as at the [[Salzburg Festival]] and the [[Bregenzer Festspiele]]. His activities abroad include guest engagements in Basel, Bern, Stockholm, Zagreb and Barcelona.

== Teaching activities, offices and memberships ==
Matiasek was director of the [[Otto-Falckenberg-Schule]] in Munich from 1972 to 1978 and president of the [[Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding]] and the [[Prinzregententheater]] from 2000 to 2003. He was also involved in the [[Deutscher Bühnenverein]], the German Center of the [[International Theatre Institute]] (ITI), is a member of the board of trustees of the [[Akademie Schloss Solitude]] and teaches as a lecturer at several universities and colleges. Matiasek is also a member of the final examination board of the [[Athanor Academy]].

== Honours ==
In 1963 Matiasek won the Austrian Theaterdirektoren-Preis, in 1992 he was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] first class and in 1993 the [[Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art]]; in 1996 he was awarded the [[Bavarian Order of Merit]]; in 2003 he received the and in 2008 the award '''' of the Free State of Bavaria.<ref></ref>

== Private life ==
Since 1967 Matiasek has been married in second marriage with the actress [[Cornelia Froboess]]. The marriage produced a daughter, Agnes, and a son, Kaspar.

== External links ==
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*[https://ift.tt/2rE76lw Short biography in Österreich-Lexikon]

== References ==







[[Category:Austrian theatre directors]]
[[Category:Austrian opera directors]]
[[Category:Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit]]
[[Category:1931 births]]
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[[Category:People from Vienna]]

December 11, 2019 at 08:33PM

Kevin Hart reflects on 2019: 'My appreciation for life is the highest that it’s ever been'

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Kevin Hart reflects on 2019: 'My appreciation for life is the highest that it's ever been' Kevin Hart is reflecting on what has been a whirlwind 2019 for the beloved funnyman.
December 11, 2019 at 11:51AM