Literature: longlist for the German Book Prize is certain – ZEIT ONLINE

Updated 19th August 2015 14:12 clock

Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – the German Book Prize occurs this year Clemens Setz against Jenny Erpenbeck and Ilija Trojanow. They belong with their new books to the most prominent authors on the extensive 20 title longlist. The best German-language novel of the year will be on 12 October in Frankfurt – on the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair – determined

Published on Wednesday longlist has assembled a jury of critics from 199 submitted titles.. On September 16, it produces a shortlist of six novels that get into the final. Not on the longlist is the bestseller (“die in the spring”) Ralf Rothmann, who wrote one of the most talked about novels of the year. The author has not filed his drama about the Second World War despite Jury invitation.

Jury spokeswoman Claudia Kramatschek described the longlist as “insightful map” that abbilde diversity and polyphony of German literature. The books kidnapped in the vast expanses of Afghanistan, negotiated by dramas in a family environment or the fate of African refugees in Berlin. “There are on this map known side rather unknown names and major publishers in addition to rather smaller.”

Among the nominees are also Alina Bronsky, Feridun Zaimoglu and the two Swiss Rolf Lappert and Ralph Dutli. They were all like setting, Trojanow and Erpenbeck with earlier novels ever on the longlist. Also among the “Top 20″ have managed Steffen Kopetzky and Ulrich Peltzer and the young Austrian Valerie Fritsch.

In addition to Rothmann missing on the list also Klaus Modicks Worpswede novel “concert without poets”, who is also currently stands on the bestseller lists. This does not include the new books by Arno Geiger and Katharina Hacker, who won the German Book Prize already once were. Overall, more than 100 publishers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria have been involved with new novels in the competition.

The German Book Prize, which was first awarded in 2005, is now considered the most prestigious award in the industry. The winner will next EUR 25 000 is usually also a place on the bestseller list. Last year, Lutz Seiler won the prize for his playing on Hiddensee DDR-outs novel “kruso”. The competition is organized by the Federation of the German book industry

The novels on the longlist in alphabetical order:

• Alina Bronsky:. Baba Dunjas last love (Kiepenheuer & amp; Witsch August

2015)
• Ralph Dutli: The lovers of Mantua (Wallenstein, August 2015)
• Jenny Erpenbeck: Go went gone (Knaus, August 2015)
• Valerie Fritsch: winter garden (Suhrkamp, ​​March 2015)
• Heinz Light: Actually, we would have to dance (Suhrkamp September 2015)
• Gertraud terminal: But Country (Droschl February 2015) • Steffen Kopetzky
: Risk (Klett-Cotta February 2015) • Rolf Lappert
: Over the winter (Carl Hanser, August 2015)
• Inger-Maria Mahlke: As you wish (Berlin Verlag March 2015)
• Ulrich Peltzer: The better Life (S. Fischer July 2015)
• Peter Richter: 89/90 (Luchterhand March 2015)
• Monique SCHWITTER one in others (Droschl, August 2015)
• Clemens J . Put: The hour between women and guitar (Suhrkamp September 2015)
• Anke Stelling: Floor to ceiling windows (the publishing firm March 2015)
• Ilija Trojanow: power and resistance (S. Fischer, August 2015) • Vladimir Vertlib
: Lucia Binar and the Russian soul (Paul Zsolnay February 2015)
• Kai Weyand: Applause for Bronikowski (Wallenstein March 2015) • Frank Witzel
: The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 (Matthes & amp; Seitz February 2015)
• Christine Wunnicke: The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (Berenberg March 2015) •
Feridun Zaimoglu: Seven Towers quarter (Kiepenheuer & amp; Witsch, August 2015)