Rainald Goetz takes Büchner Prize in Darmstadt contrary – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The writer Rainald Goetz received the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize. Reach 61-year-old author of the award and EUR 50,000 award was presented Saturday night at Darmstadt State Theatre. “Life destroys the inner voice. I was never in writing as uncertain as today, which I emigrated,” said the author of works such as “Johann Holtrop” and “deception” to a full house.

The ceremony is the most important literary award in Germany. Goetz had “made with a unique intensity to the chroniclers of the present and their culture,” it said in the jury.

“It helps a lot that the Büchner Prize is awarded on behalf of an outsider”, was living in Berlin and award-winning author in his speech. 32 years ago, he had published his first novel “deception”, in which he talked about his time as a neurologist.

From the psychiatrist for Punk writers

In his opinion writers could not be political – that they were not fast enough with their work. “Literature turns the world but slowly. Infinitely slowly.” Politics was the cause of journalism. However, writers can also use the methods of journalism, for example in the research.

The laudation was held by Jürgen Kaube, co-editor of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “There are probably only a few German writers of our time, who often started again when Rainald Goetz,” he said. “The psychiatrist became a punk writers.” This “permanent Neuanfangen” have an impact on his readers, who always wondered what he might do next.

journalist donates pharma funded critics price

As part of the ceremony two other prizes were awarded. The linguist Peter Eisenberg was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize, the journalist Gabriele Goettle was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize. Both awards are each worth 20,000 euros.

The 69-year-old Goettle asked to be excused for health reasons and notified that she could not accept money from a pharmaceutical company. The money will forward them therefore to a pharma critical initiative. The Journalists’ Prize is awarded as Büchner Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, however, financed exclusively by the Darmstadt-based company Merck.

With the Georg Büchner Prize was awarded last year the writer Jürgen Becker. Among the previous winners include Erich Kastner (1957), Heinrich Böll (1967) and Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986).