Klagenfurt (AP) – “Sometimes I wake up and think: Today I am an egg Admittedly, this does not happen to me often.”, Says the text of Sharon Dodua Otoo. With their amusing work that previously unknown in German-speaking author convinced the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
The native Briton received for it on Sunday in Klagenfurt, endowed with EUR 25 000 main prize of the 40th “Festival of German literature”. The critics are rooted the unexcited text “Mr Gröttrup sits down” between parody and parabola.
The morning routine of the couple Gröttrup has years equal. The conclusion of the breakfast always forms a seven and a half minutes boiled egg. One morning the egg refuses to be hard – get a life of its own and becomes the narrator. The crashes especially the retired Lord Gröttrup, a classic Patriarch, in a crisis. Ajar is the main character of Helmut Gröttrup (1916 – 1981), German engineer and missile expert.
A steady exchange of slowness and speed records from the text. The literary critic Hildegard Keller found that it is possible only with difficulty “telling hilarious of reincarnation”. She saw a pastiche Loriots egg number with enigmatic charm. The contribution to show what the Bachmann Prize could also make the 40th anniversary of its existence: “to give to a new voice platform that has earned it,” said Keller.
The visibly moved and happy winner could not believe their luck and confessed: “I have the price beforehand really do not know.” Had the Berlin-based author gewusste to the tradition of betting reading, she had filed another text.
The panel chairman Hubert Winkels pointed to the versatility of the competition. Participants from eight countries presented their works for three days. The four prizes went to four different countries and emphasized in particular a new generation of strong women in the spotlight: In addition to the British Otoo the German Julia Wolf and the Austrian Stefanie Sargnagel even received awards. The Swiss Dieter Zwicky was the only man Sir.
Especially the Viennese Sargnagel who reaped the Audience Award, this year was the focus. Until now it was known with their Alltagsbeobachten in simple language on social media, which are short, funny and sometimes extremely obscene. Traditional masks of literary criticism are not applicable to her.
The new round of betting reading was probably therefore heralded with an appeal to more openness. Former jury chairman and German author Burkhard spiders wished decidedly “more risky texts”. select pieces only after the potential for the most common aesthetic denominator is wrong. Even at the risk that the authors would have a lot of criticism.
In “Penne from Kika” can experience the iconic Facebook poet Sargnagel their narrator a winter day in Vienna. The main character goes skating and meet in a seedy pub with a friend. The narrator here never arises about the sad and messed-up characters she encounters. Some of the contents, such as removing a hair from the buttocks, solve many viewers probably disgust. Your price took the 30-year-old with a red cap and sunglasses glued counter and was pleased with the strong showing of women “. In the golden matriarchy”
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