The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Literature Prize 2024 was awarded to Juli Katz. The 34-year-old was honored for her text “Annegret wants to chicago”.
“Go or stay? The journalist Juli Katz gave this old question a convincing literary answer in 2024 with her wonderfully lighthearted story about Annegret,” says the jury’s statement. The literature prize is endowed with 3,000 euros. It also includes a month-long stay at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop as well as several readings in MV.
Two audience awards were also given out at the event on Saturday evening in Greifswald, it said. The award from the audience present in the hall went to Juli Katz, and that from the audience in the online live stream went to Steffen Dürre. Both prizes are endowed with 500 euros.
The vote was preceded by a reading by the five nominated authors: Barbara Dickow, who was born in Neubrandenburg, with a text about her post-war childhood in the city, Steffen Dürre from Rostock, Friederike Haerter with poetry, she comes from Greifswald, Mathias Mertens from Stralsund and Juli Katz , who lives in Western Pomerania. More than 90 applications were received for the MV 2024 Literature Prize. This year’s literary prize jury included: Lenore Lötsch (NDR), Stefan Härtel (book blogger Bookster HRO) and Thomas Kunst (poet and novelist).
The MV Literature Prize was awarded for the sixth time in 2024. The organizers were the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, the Literaturhaus Rostock, the Literaturzentrum Vorpommern in the Koeppenhaus in Greifswald and the “Risse. Journal for Literature in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania” in cooperation with the LiteraturRat MV eV The prize and the award ceremony are supported by the Ministry for Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and by the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald as part of the Anniversary “250 Years of Caspar David Friedrich”, sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
