Question

An “anti-play” by an author from this country opens, “You are welcome. This piece is a prologue.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home country of Peter Handke (“HONT-kuh”), who wrote the play Offending the Audience. Other authors from this German-speaking country include Thomas Bernhard and Stefan Zweig (“SHTEH-fahn ts’VIKE”).
ANSWER: Austria
[10m] This Austrian author supported the decision to award Handke the Nobel Prize despite his much-denounced support of Slobodan Milošević (“mih-LOH-shay-vitch”). This author of The Piano Teacher drew on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for the play What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband.
ANSWER: Elfriede Jelinek (“el-FREE-duh YELL-in-ek”)
[10h] Jelinek wrote a screenplay based on a novel by this other Austrian author. In that novel by this author, the unnamed narrator has an affair with Ivan, who may be based on Paul Celan, before disappearing into a crack in the wall.
ANSWER: Ingeborg Bachmann (The novel is Malina.)
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Ohio State AMichigan B100010
Michigan CMichigan A0000
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