After the order was drawn at the opening yesterday evening, the big reading competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize starts today at 10 a.m. Also this year the “Days of German-Language Literature” until Sunday will largely be held virtually and via TV due to the pandemic. Only the jury and presenter Christian Ankowitsch are sitting in the ORF studio in Klagenfurt, audiences are not allowed. The 14 participating authors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland are connected online.
You have been invited by one of the seven jury members and will read a maximum of 25 minutes from an unpublished text. As in 2020, the reading was pre-recorded. Nava Ebrahimi from Austria, who was born in Iran and lives in Graz, Katharina Ferner from Salzburg, Verena Gotthardt from Klagenfurt, Fritz Krenn from Graz and Magda Woitzuck from Neulengbach (N) are there. Heike Geiler, Timon Karl Kaleyta, Necati ziri, Anna Prizkau, Nadine Schneider, Leander Steinkopf and Dana Vowinckel come from Germany, and Lukas Maisel and Julia Weber from Switzerland.
There are changes in the jury this year. The previous chairman Hubert Winkels is leaving (he gave the “Klagenfurt speech on literary criticism” at the opening yesterday evening). He is followed by Insa Wilke. Mara Delius (“Die Welt”) and writer Vea Kaiser are new. Also there are Klaus Kastberger, Brigitte Schwens-Harrant, Philipp Tingler and Michael Wiederstein.
In addition to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (25,000 euros), there is also the Deutschlandfunk Prize (12,500 euros), the Kelag Prize (10,000 euros), the 3sat Prize (7,500 euros) and the BKS Bank Audience Award ( 7,000 euros plus city clerk grant).
Live-bertragung from today to Saturday from 10 a.m. and on Sunday from 11 a.m. 3sat and up bachmannpreis.orf.at
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