Literary contest – Nora Gomringer wins Bachmann Prize – Süddeutsche.de

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• The 35-year-old German poet Nora Gomringer won in Klagenfurt the Bachmann Prize for Literature.
• Gomringer was been awarded, among others, previously for their commitment to poetry slam competitions.
• The winner is the director of the Bamberg Künstlerhaus.

windfall Price

“Actually biste not prose,” spoke Nora Gomringer up to his own words before their invitation Bachmann literature competition in Klagenfurt. “In my harmless writer-brain I thought so far anyway, that would be a price and a participation that would be denied to me,” said the 35-year-old a few days ago in the SZ interview. Now she is out of the event, which she describes as “Germanists-porn” named in the fun, emerged as the winner.

For unsuitable to held Gomringer because they previously came mainly as a poet and poetry slammer in appearance was. Your job as Director of the International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg left her little time for long texts.

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Now the Easter rich innovative jury Gomringer has for its text “Search “Excellent, in which she tells of the death of a 13-year-old who has fallen into a skyscraper from the balcony. The jury praised the polyphonic “Verstörungskomödie” as a work full of allusions with constant change of perspective. Gomringer voice was “strong, smart and presentable,” it said. The author was born in Neunkirchen in the Saar region.

After this success, she now plays at least with the thought of a novel, Gomringer said after the award ceremony. “I’m in a daze,” the already multi-award winning author who was among others the 2011 Jacob Grimm Prize for German language for their poetry slam commitment. In SZ magazine she published in 2012 this poem.

The other award winners

The award is endowed with EUR 25 000. Gomringer beat out nine other writers and four authors. Beside her, the Austrian Valerie Fritsch was won a further EUR 10 000 in prize money and the doped with 7000 Euros Audience Award. The Zurich-based Romanian Dana Grigorcea won the prize worth 7500 Euro 3sat Prize

The majority of participants of the Klagenfurt competition came from Germany. In addition to Nora Gomringer were Saskia Hennig von Lange (Frankfurt am Main), Katerina Poladjan (Berlin), Ronja von Rönne (Berlin), Sven Recker (Berlin), Peter Truschner (Berlin) and Monique Schwitter (Hamburg) and the native Westphalian Tim Krohn case.

Her performance took place in an atmosphere that seemed about as Edgy like a sprayed Veltliner: Ronja von Rönne reads.

(Photo: Johannes Puch / dpa )

Festival on austerity

The award is named after the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973). The literature spectacle struggling with financial difficulties for years. This year, in particular the high indebtedness of the federal state of Carinthia had an impact. Therefore were reasons of economy only four instead of the previous five prizes awarded.