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MARIE Colbin'S OPEN LETTER TO PETER HANDKE OF 1999 THE FULL TEXT

    O   
  PEN LETTER TO  
   
  PETER  
  HANDKE  
  OF  
  MARIE  
  Colbin  
  IN  
  May 1999  
    

   
 this brief 
 
 
 oesterr was in the 
 
. 
 magazine 
 
 format exactly 
 
 be printed. All 
 
 say, you 
 
 love 
 the 
 Country 
 the 
 Serbs. 
 
 I say: You 
 
 
 before 
 love you all 
 
 in 
 
 this country! Also 
 
 I love 
 
 tofu, 
 the 
 
 stray cat, and 
 
 their children 
 
 - 
 Buddha, 
 Congo, 
 Sanso 
 and 
 
 Patti Smith. 
 
 I love this 
 
 herd cats 
 very 
 and 
 
 shall 
 the 
 responsibility. 
 Only if 
 
 tofu 
 
 a bird brings 
 
 and 
 
 him before my eyes 
 
 
 glowing 
 Zerbe eats 
 - 
 
 him joyfully kills 
, 
 
 then I feel 
 
 before 
 all 
 love 
 for 
 
 the bird! And if 
 
 
 the 
 
 arms only hurt 
 
 is shocked 
 or 
, then 
 
 hurry 
 I 
 
 and act! I try 
 
 
 all 
 
 to save him 
 to 
, 
 help him to 
 
, 
 him to heal 
 
. As 
 
 preventive measure 
 
 with tofu 
 
 now 
 
 a bell to 
 
 
 the neck. A 
 
 jingly 
 
 warning signal for the 
 
 birds. Where's Your 
 
 
 
 "warning signal" for 
 
 the 
 
 countless massacred, humiliated 
 
 and 
 displaced Kosovars 
 
 gone? Where 
 
 poet 
 are 
 since 
 Your 
 lost 
 words? 
 
 Are not you 
 
 
 also responsible for 
 
 
 this war? 
 
 You have nothing 
 
 
 in advance for 
 
 the peace 
 
 done! 
 
 Why not? One-eyed 
 
 You rage 
 
 
 to you. Next 
 
 
 and more. 
 Handke 
 - 
 photographed before 
 
 
 bombed a factory 
 
 
 in Belgrade. 
 Oh, what a 
 
 
 vain posturing 
 
 what a ridiculous, 
 
 hollow pathos! The Indians 
 
 
 
 on warpath as 
 
 last 
 Serbian. 
 
 you feel you 
 
 now 
 as 
 
 hero in your 
 
 "dugout" and 
 
 paddle further 
 Sun 
? Remember you 
 
 
 to 
 our 
 "maneuvers - History! 
 ago 
 exactly twelve o'clock 
 
 years 
 on 
 
 April 14, 1987, shortly 
 
 
 before I leave you 
 
 for 
 
 
 always have, 
 
 we went in 
 
 Yugoslav Karst 
 
 
 the road. 
 
 Suddenly we were 
 
 startled by 
 
 
 rumbling tanks and 
 
 loud banging 
 
 any 
 shooters. We came 
 
 
 middle 
 in a 
 
 played 
 war. You 
 
 
 said then: "In 
 
 war 
 is 
 
 everything better. Since 
 
's going to 
 
 something! "
 Go's 
 you 
 now 
 better 
 poet? I think 
 
 
 almost 
 yes. Somehow 
 
 
 You'll be thankful 
 this war 
 
 
, 
 because he 
 
 
 satisfied in 
 perverse way 
 
 
 your insatiable desire 
 
 after 
 
 public recognition. 
 
 your ego inflates 
 
 is far 
 
 
 and wide, and 
 
 
 it disgusts me 
 
. 
 250 000 
 TOTE 
 and 
 
 two million displaced 
 
 
 from Bosnia! About one million 
 
 a 
 
 
 displaced from the 
 
 Kosovo! And you 
 
 deadlocked 
 
 in 
 fur 
 your 
 "Einaughaltung" 
 - 
 justify 
 
 a nationalist, chauvinistic 
 
 and 
 
 racist regime. In a 
 
 
 
 absurd twisting of 
 
 
 cause and effect 
 legitimierst 
 
 You 
 genocide 
 
 and deportation. 
 awareness 
 swapping 
 You 
 
 the roles of 
 
 
 victims and perpetrators 
. And what 
 
 
 
 is cynical and 
 
 infringing, 
 blame as the 
 
 
 images of horror 
 
 even 
 
 to 
? 
 ashamed 
 You 
 
 you do not 
? 
 If 
 you against taking 
 a 
 price 
 in 
 Belgrade 
, 
 Your 
 piece 
 there 
 to 
 present 
 time 
 stage 
 or 
 up 
 even 
 to 
 noble 
 "Knight" beat 
 leaves 
 Sun 
 is the 
 
 
 your conscious consent 
 
 to 
 blood - politician 
 
 the dictator Milosevic 
! The 
 
 is 
 your review 
 
 
 to "ethnic cleansing 
! 
 Yes, I 
 
 hear your 
 
 trite, vulgar 
 
 phrases: "I 
 
 
 shit on your 
 
 Menchenrechte. 
 I 
 
 shit on your 
 
 
 threatened peoples. 
 puts you 
 
 the 
 dead in 
 
 
 the ass! "
 
 
 Who are you 
 then, that 
 
 You 
 you 
 Sun 
 take 
 important? Are not 
 
 
 large 
 still 
 noble 
 
 or even modest 
 
 
 and sincere. A 
 
 vain 
 Schreiber 
 
 are you, the 
 
 to 
 basks in 
 
 
 the role of 
 
 "lonely 
 crying." Only 
 
 are 
 the 
 calls 
 
 after approval for 
 
 
 a criminal regime. You're 
 
 
 a 
 
 ideologue of modern 
 
 Balkan fascism. 
 
 2 
 Your 
 kitschy, 
 transfigured, 
 "tufts of grass - the world" 
 
 gets unfortunately 
 again 
 once 
 much 
 to 
 
 much attention, and 
 
 I wonder 
 
 
 me very, 
 on what 
 
 banal 
 wine - skip blessed 
 basis 
 
 your supporters are 
 
. Your 
 
 
 small piece of dramatic 
 
 are 
 the war 
 
 
 not a concrete 
 
 face. It is 
 
 
 is not 
 
 against the 
 
 immense proportions 
 
 the 
 
 extinction of individuality 
 
 (even dead 
 
 faces 
 be 
 
 with baseball bats 
 defaced 
), but 
 
 is 
 discharge 
 your 
 aggressive 
 vanity. 
 I'm 
 
 pacifist. And if 
 
's 
 to me 
 
 would go 
 
 it would not 
 
 a weapon 
 
 
 on earth! However 
 
 white 
 I 
 
 long as there are men 
 
 
 on this 
 
 world 
 - 
 men 
 
 like you: 
 one-eyed, 
 relentless, power hungry 
 
 and 
 Ego - wide 
 - 
 
 it is also 
 
 weapons 
 
 and thus give 
 
 wars. 
 
 I still hear 
 
 
 
 my head on the 
 
 pop 
 stone floor. I feel 
 
 
 again 
 the 
 hiking boot 
 
 in the abdomen and 
 
 also 
 the 
 Faust 
 in 
 face. No 
 
 - 
 
 You're not 
 
 man 
 
 of peace! 
 ---- 
 MARIE 
 Colbin 
 IN 
 May 1999