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NDR Kultur literature expert Alexander Solloch is not surprised that Marcel Beyer awarded the Georg Büchner prize 2016th
A few times a year holds the literary world held their breath. For example, in a morning like this, where it has been announced who will be awarded the most prestigious literary prize in German speaking countries, the Georg Büchner Prize. This year he goes to Marcel Beyer. The German Academy for Language and Literature honors Beyer for a “distinctive work, which also is known the world wonderfully and can appear iridescent new”. . An interview with NDR Kultur literary editor Alexander Solloch on the winner
Is this a decision that will surprise you
Alexander Solloch: No, not at all, because Marcel Beyer is one with which is actually to be expected in the field of awards ever. Anytime, day or night, rain or shine, snow and hail, one must assume that he wins any literary prize. When may I give a secret look into the inner feelings of the NDR Literature Edited: My colleague Joachim Dicks us before it is broken up at the weekend in the holidays, already assured: “This time, Marcel Beyer’s turn”, while the colleague Ulrike Sárkány and I thought, “Marcel Beyer can be, but no, it is time Christoph Mayr edge or Hans-Joachim Harmful”. This is another of those who would have that price deserves long time.
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What should we know about Marcel Beyer?
Solloch : Although it looks eternally youthful and is considered an always young writer, he is now already fifty. He was born in November 1965 in Baden-Württemberg and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. The late eighties he began to publish poetry, essays and journalistic works: In 1991, his debut novel “human flesh”. This was a book that was rather still received with mixed feelings. Since Beyer has, as befits a 25-year-olds, yet played much with narrative forms and Convention fractures and experimenting.
1995 saw be today’s biggest success, the novel “bats”, which was also a great international success. A story that takes place before the gradual collapse of the Nazi regime in the years 1938 to 1945 is told by two voices: a security guard of Hitler and of the oldest Goebbelstochter Helga. This was a novel, from which one could not remain unaffected. Not by the bold design, not the laconic language, the brought the whole madness that she described depressing to bear.
Where the author lives today?
Solloch : Meanwhile Beyer lives in Dresden. As a key novel from him his novel “Kaltenburg” from 2008 is widely regarded. A story about life in Dresden and ever in the GDR in the past few decades. It was important and Marcel Beyer also as a poet.
The Büchner Prize is awarded to him on November 5 in Darmstadt, he is highly endowed with 50,000 euros. What do you think personally of this decision
Solloch : This is a decision about which one can not complain even with the best will to complain. The Statute of the Georg Büchner Prize looks in the pursuit of a worthy winner as a criterion before, it should be someone who writes in German, emerges through his work and works in a particular degree, essential in the design of contemporary German culture system share. This is true all at Marcel Beyer.
Who as a brilliant novel as “flying foxes” writes, must reckon with this beautiful, venerable price. So there is really no objection to this decision of the German Academy for Language and Literature. At most, you could point that Marcel Beyer already is a favorite of price juries. Two years ago, he has the Kleist Prize, the Oscar Pastior price Bremer Literature Prize and the Düsseldorf Literature Prize been awarded. These are extremely valuable prizes. 2008 already he received the Joseph Breitbach Prize, which is like the Büchner Prize connected to 50,000 euros. So the German Academy for Language and Literature should not expect to get awarded the German originality price turn. Which she probably does not need. Then you can say, well, Marcel Beyer is 50. He would have had a lot of time for this price. Someone like Hans-Joachim Harmful is 80, but these are all highly subjective and arty generic objections. It is a good, a decision to be made, to which one can congratulate Marcel Beyer only from the heart.
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