Frank Witzel in his place in the hall, as the award winner was announced.
Claudia Kramatschek, spokeswoman last much maligned jury would not have to occur so defensively in the opening conversation with the moderator. That it is difficult, said the critic, at the end of a Single of six remaining Roman single out in the final. Here is the, well, there is the task of the jury to excuse nothing. That rumbling and rumbling not only to belong in advance of that price, but rather is part of the business model German Book Prize, led the president of the Börsenverein Heinrich Riethmüller from:’ll ever talked and argued about books, the better
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author. Sandra Cone, editor-in feature
Even if you’ve heard the phrase “I’m surprised I’m unprepared” in acceptance speeches from Book Prize winners have often, they actually even sounded credible at Frank Witzel. Because the born in 1955 in Wiesbaden and lives in Offenbach author and musician actually was not as Ulrich Peltzer and Jenny Erpenbeck to favorites, and he has achieved no oeuvre. But he wrote in fifteen years with an almost existential furor a novel that captures half a century and not told chronologically, but mixed disparate forms as interior monologue, dream protocols, fake interviews and philosophical treatises.
In this way, he captures the taste and odor of an entire era, memories and intellectual tastes of the generation of economic miracle and Cold War. A “in the best sense boundless novel construct,” a statement said the jury. In its mix of “madness and wit, formal daring and contemporary history Panoramatik” is this “hybrid compendium of pop, politics and paranoia novel” unique in German literature “.
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He had dug only in his own little past, however, said very calmly the bald Witzel, and amazed even, at how strong the enthusiasm this bump in others. One should continue the novel simply mention only “The invention” says Witzel. But the title we will not take so easily.
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