Der große Fall? Die Rezeption Peter Handkes in Ungarn bis nach dem Nobelpreis
The big case? The reception of Peter Handke in Hungary until after the Nobel Prize

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the reception of the works of the Austrian author Peter Handke in Hungary from the beginning up to the year 2020. In the communist times, in the times of the so-called „Peoples Republic of Hungary“ Peter Handke belonged to the group of modern Western authors who were not compatible with the cultural policy of the Hungarian state. Over years it was a great effort of Hungarian intellectuals to introduce and establish Handke in Hungary as a relevant contemporary author with a growing number of published Hungarian translations of his works from the 1970s until 1990. Interestingly with the political changes of the years 1989/90 the interest in Handke and his oeuvre seemed to vanish. In the years 1991–2019, there were no book publications of his works in Hungary, and even after Handke’s winning Nobel prize only one – formerly already published – translation of one of his works was published.

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