Rainald Goetz – late and yet sensational – Süddeutsche.de

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The longer walked the jury of the Büchner Prize to Rainald Goetz, the less credible they went. In this respect his choice godsend and clearance is also.

The Georg Büchner Prize is the most prestigious award for a literary lifework in the German-speaking world, the German Nobel Prize, if you will. It is awarded annually by the Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt -. Namely mostly to itself in recent years at least was the price, which is endowed with EUR 50 000, always adhere to the own members of the Academy

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The appeal in this academy appeared to be a sort of precursor of the price, and the inclusion in the illustrious circle society may therefore carry a certain expectation in which one or the other poets. Incestuous but impacted the recent decisions one way or another, and too much enthusiasm they not awakened. The election result was, more cautious, either apart or yesterday’s, often both. According behavior fell from the echo, hymns were sung as at best with coated tongue.

For many Has-Beens the prize was awarded in the aftermath, authors, in which they had missed the right time simply. Despite the backwardness there are others who have never received the prize, although they deserved it. Siegfried Lenz or about Walter Kempowski failed at the Darmstadt immortality bureaucracy. They died without being reburied in the Pantheon. In other like WG Sebald or Wolfgang Herrndorf

came a tragic early death of the ceremony before. The last time that the Academy did not address the literary presence with the reaction rate of a melting glacier, was in 1963 when the then 34-year-old Hans Magnus Enzensberger was awarded the Büchner Prize, and again ten years later. As Peter Handke received the award; He was at that time 29 years old. It may be that you wanted these two troublemakers eingemeinden and canonize early, the better to bring them under control. Folded has known not, but the word control is an ideal reconciliation to this year’s winners, in whose work it is a key concept:. Rainald Goetz

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Although this decision has the flaw of too late consolation, it is a sensation. The longer the Academy of the now 61-year-old Goetz, the main driving force and the most interesting head of German literature, was passing, the less credible they went. With each passing year, they squandered, they worked on their own marginalization. That it finally worked out, you have to celebrate not only a stroke of luck, but also a strong kick, which proves that, contrary to expectations but still life is in Germany’s only national Academy

references the historical winners tableau. – and in the intellectual landscape of the Federal Republic at all – are just that Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Alexander Kluge. How these two embodies born in Munich in 1954 Rainald Goetz the type of nervous presence chroniclers with theoretical superstructure, whose intelligence is too impatient to write novels, although he did it twice, but at a distance of thirty years. As Enzensberger Goetz made first attracted attention as a journalist. While still a student of history and medicine, the two subjects in which he received his doctorate, he wrote articles, the first for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , later for magazines such as Timetable , In concrete , Transatlantic , Mercury and the Spiegel – and the journalism, not as a profession but as a consumer, he has remained true to this day

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