For the tenth time was awarded in Frankfurt am Main on the eve of the opening of the book fair in the German Book Prize. Lutz Seiler sat down with his debut novel “kruso” (Suhrkamp) against five rivals through (including the Austrians Heinrich Steinfels). The prize is worth 25,000 euros. The seven judges justified on Monday its decision in the imperial hall of the Roman, which was broadcast via live stream on the internet, with Seiler’s “lyrical, sensual, the Magic playing language”, in 1989 describing the island Hiddensee the summer – “a court of the disappearance. Here gathered nerds, creative thinkers, freedom seekers, people who wanted to flee from the GDR “
You should read the thrilling Robinsonade as eloquent story of a personal and historic shipwreck: “The text developed a unique urgency and is playing a requiem for the Baltic refugees who came when they fled their lives. “Praise is also” completely independent poetic language “of June 8, born in 1963 in Thuringia, Gera-Langenberg, currently living in Berlin author, her sensual intensity and worldliness. “
So far he has come primarily as a poet and writer of short prose in appearance. “The joy is great,” Seiler said in a brief acceptance speech, which was “tonight a great station” for him.
Seiler had previously been awarded many times. Among other things, he has obtained in 2014 (also for “kruso”) the Uwe-Johnson in 2007 and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (for the story “Turksib”). With the short story collection “The time scale” he was nominated for the 2010 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. In his military service in the National People’s Army of the GDR, the trained mason and carpenter had begun to write poetry, then studied German in Halle and Berlin, 1993 was the literary magazine “moss fire” out. Since then he is a wealth of poems, essays and short stories appeared
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(“The Press”, print edition, 07/10/2014)
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