The Moravian Night was written by what man whose nomination in the 2006 Heinrich Heine Prize caused a scandal?
The Moravian Night The Moravian Night (German: Die morawische Nacht ) is a 2008 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a retired writer who talks about a recent journey and the state of Europe in front of a small crowd on his houseboat, while anchored outside the village Porodin on the river Morava in Serbia.
Samuel Friedrich Brenz Samuel Friedrich Brenz (born in Osterburg, Bavaria, in the latter half of the sixteenth century; date and place of death unknown) was an anti-Jewish writer. He was converted to Christianity in 1601 in Feuchtwangen, and wrote "Jüdischer Abgestreifter Schlangenbalg" (The Jewish Serpent's Skin Stripped), in which he bitterly attacked his former coreligionists, whom he accused of hating "the most pious and innocent Jew, Jesus Christ," and in which he denounced their religious literature. This book, divided into seven chapters, appeared at Nuremberg in 1614, 1680, and 1715.