Winner of the 2014 International Ibsen Award: Peter Handke

Winner of the 2014 International Ibsen Award: Peter Handke

OSLO, Norway, March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --





The International Ibsen Award, the world's leading theatre award, is awarded


to individuals or institutions that have made a significant contribution to the


development of theatre as an art form. The winner receives NOK 2.5 million.



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The award was established by the Norwegian Government in 2007 and has previously been
awarded to Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jon Fosse and Heiner Goebbels. The jury's
citation states that the 2014 International Ibsen Award is being awarded to Peter Handke
for "a body of work that is unparalleled in its formal beauty and brilliant reflection",
and continues: "If Ibsen was the model playwright of the bourgeois epoch, which has yet to
end, Peter Handke is undoubtedly theatre's most eminent epic poet." To read the jury's
entire citation, please visit http://www.internationalibsenaward.com



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About Peter Handke



Peter Handke was born in Karnten, studied law at the University of Graz from 1961 to
1965, but broke off his studies when his first novel manuscript was accepted in 1965 (Die
Hornissen, 1966). In the same year, the legendary play Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending
the Audience) was put on in Frankfurt, directed by Claus Peymann. He has since published
more than thirty novels and works of prose, and has written a number of plays and
screenplays, including the screenplay for Wim Wenders' well-known, award winning Der
Himmel ueber Berlin (Wings of Desire or The Sky Above Berlin, 1987). He has won a number
of international awards for his literary work and is regarded today as one of the great
names of European literature. Handke lives in Chaville outside Paris.



About The International Ibsen Award




- The award ceremony will take place on 21 September during the Ibsen
Festival at the National Theatre in Oslo. Peter Handke's Immer noch Sturm will close
the festival.
- The award is funded by the Norwegian Government via the Ministry of Culture
and is awarded every second year on Henrik Ibsen's birthday.
- The committee consists of: Per Boye Hansen (Chair), Therese Bjorneboe (Deputy
Chair), Hanne Tomta, Christiane Schneider, Sir Brian McMaster, Dr Thomas Oberender,
and Roman Dolzhanskiy.
- The award has previously been won by Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jon Fosse
and Heiner Goebbels.
- Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien on 20 March 1828.


For more about the award, this year's winner and photos visit:
http://www.internationalibsenaward.com



For more information please contact Anne Berentsen, +47-99-52-44-38 /
anne.berentsen@kulturmeglerne.no






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