New edition for the 70th birthday of Peter Handke in December 2012. "Josef Bloch, a former well-known goalkeeper, was informed when he reported to work in the morning that he was being dismissed. In any case, Bloch interpreted the fact that only the foreman looked up from his break when he appeared at the door of the construction hut, where the workers were gathered, as such a notification and left the construction site." In March 1970, the story "The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty" was published in an initial print run of 25,000 copies, and six months later, the print run had doubled. The reception was unanimous: "This story is among the most compelling works written in German in the last ten years." (Karl Heinz Bohrer, "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung") "To say it upfront: I consider The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty to be...