---
name: "Peter Handke"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-handke"
fi1m_id: "peter-handke"
imdb_id: "nm0359563"
tmdb_id: 2305
wikidata_id: "Q44107"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 December 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T01:19:30.021535+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Peter Handke

## Identity

Peter Handke

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-handke
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-handke
- **IMDb ID:** nm0359563
- **TMDB ID:** 2305
- **Wikidata ID:** Q44107
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Handke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44107, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2305

Writer. Born 6 December 1942 in Griffen, Austria.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 December 1942, Griffen, Austria
- **Active:** 1987–1998
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 55 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Handke, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44107, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2305

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wings of Desire*](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md) (88)

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## Biography

Peter Handke is an Austrian writer known for his work in film, theatre and literature. He wrote the screenplay for Wim Wenders’ *Wings of Desire* (1987), a collaboration that also included earlier projects such as *Wrong Move* (1975) and *The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick* (1972).

Handke was born on 6 December 1942 in Griffen, Austria. He studied law at the University of Graz before establishing himself as a playwright and novelist in the 1960s. In 2019 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, britannica.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *City of Angels* (1998), Fi1m 55, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke* (2017), Actor
- *The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez* (2016), as Gardener · Novel
- *Glass: Spuren der Verirrten* (2013), Story
- *City of Angels* (1998), Original Film Writer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-angels.md)
- *The Absence* (1993), Director, Novel, Writer
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)
- *The Malady of Death* (1985), as The Narrator (voice) · Director, Screenplay
- *The Left-Handed Woman* (1978), Director, Novel, Screenplay
- *Short Letter to the Long Goodbye* (1978), Novel
- *The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick* (1975), Dialogue, Novel
- *Wrong Move* (1975), Screenplay
- *Kaspar* (1974), Writer
- *Alice in the Cities* (1974), as Man at Chuck Berry Concert (uncredited)
- *Chronicle of Current Events* (1971), Director
- *3 American LPs* (1969), Writer
- *Dichter Forum Graz* (1967), Actor
- *Offending the Audience* (1966), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Market town Griffen, Hauptplatz, district of Völkermarkt, Carinthia, the birthplace of Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2019, Austria, Eur (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-4f8758f4db2d.jpg) Market town Griffen, Hauptplatz, district of Völkermarkt, Carinthia, the birthplace of Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2019, Austria, Eur (2020) — Naturpuur, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Griffen%2C_Hauptplatz%2C_Bezirk_V%C3%B6lkermarkt%2C_K%C3%A4rnten.jpg/1280px-Griffen%2C_Hauptplatz%2C_Bezirk_V%C3%B6lkermarkt%2C_K%C3%A4rnten.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Петер Хандке и Милан Ружић (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-4f66fd9959d0.jpg) Петер Хандке и Милан Ружић (2021) — KnjiževniBiseri, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Handke_i_ja.jpg/1280px-Handke_i_ja.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Peter Handke, österreichischer Schriftsteller](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-3cae34c57956.jpg) Peter Handke, österreichischer Schriftsteller — "Wild + Team Agentur - UNI Salzburg", CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Peter-handke.jpg/1280px-Peter-handke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Peter Handke, österreichischer Schriftsteller](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-f9f953502e59.jpg) Peter Handke, österreichischer Schriftsteller — "Wild + Team Agentur - UNI Salzburg", CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Peter-handke_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Peter-handke_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lo scrittore tedesco Peter Handke (1983)](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-5743ec0c5995.jpg) Lo scrittore tedesco Peter Handke (1983) — Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Peter_Handke.jpg/1280px-Peter_Handke.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cover of the book Gedicht an die Dauer by Peter Handke, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1986](https://film.one/media/person/119040/gallery-a556210a95a0.jpg) Cover of the book Gedicht an die Dauer by Peter Handke, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1986 — Suhrkamp Verlag, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Peter_Handke_-_Gedicht_an_die_Dauer.jpg/1280px-Peter_Handke_-_Gedicht_an_die_Dauer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 24 won, 1 nominated

- Nobel Prize in Literature 2019: Nobel Prize in Literature (won)
- Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement 2018: Nestroy theater award/lifetime achievement (won)
- honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala 2017: honorary doctorate of the University of Alcala (won)
- honorary citizen of Belgrade 2015: honorary citizen of Belgrade (won)
- Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis 2014: Else-Lasker-Schüler-Dramatikerpreis (won)
- International Ibsen Award 2014: International Ibsen Award (won)
- Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis 2012: Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis (won)
- Candide Preis 2011: Candide Preis (won)
- Franz Kafka Prize 2009: Franz Kafka Prize (won)
- Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts 2008: Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (won)
- Heinrich Heine Prize 2006: Heinrich Heine Prize (won)
- Siegfried Unseld Preis 2004: Siegfried Unseld Preis (won)
- America Award in Literature 2002: America Award in Literature (won)
- Schiller Memorial Prize 1995: Schiller Memorial Prize (won)
- Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen 1988: Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen (won)
- Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature 1987: Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (won)
- Vilenica Prize 1987: Vilenica Prize (won)
- Anton Wildgans Prize 1985: Anton Wildgans Prize (nominated)
- Franz Nabl Prize 1985: Franz Nabl Prize (won)
- Franz-Kafka-Preis 1979: Franz-Kafka-Preis (won)
- Prix Georges-Sadoul 1978: Prix Georges-Sadoul (won)
- Georg Büchner Prize 1973: Georg Büchner Prize (won)
- Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim 1973: Schiller Prize of the City of Mannheim (won)
- Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark 1972: Literaturpreis des Landes Steiermark (won)
- Gerhart Hauptmann Prize 1967: Gerhart Hauptmann Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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