The 47th Bachmann Prize goes to the German writer Valeria Gordeev. The German convinced the jury with her text about a cleaning fanatic. A decision was taken on the presentation of the prize of 25,000 euros in the Klagenfurt Theater on Sunday morning.
After the jury deliberations, the Ukrainian author Yevgeniy Breyger, the Austrian Anna Felnhofer and the German Valeria Gordeev had good chances to win. The extensive group of favorites also included British author Jacinta Nandi, French-born Jayrome C. Robinet and Polish-German author Martin Piekar. Last year, the prize went to writer Ana Marwan, who comes from Slovenia.
After the cancellation Helena Adler and Robert Prosser, twelve authors have been on the jury since Thursday, which decides on the award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, which is associated with 25,000 euros, and four other prizes in a new voting system with points. Then there is the audience award.
Here are the other prize winners
The Polish-German author Martin Piekar won twice. On the one hand he received the KELAG prize, on the other hand he received the most votes in the public vote and thus also received the public prize. Lauta Leupi was honored with the 3sat prize for her text “The Alphabet of Sexualized Violence” and can therefore look forward to 7500 euros. For the Austrian Anna Felnhofer there was the Deutschlandsfunk prize, to which 12,500 euros was awarded.
Source: Krone
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