Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize was founded in 1976 by the city of Klagenfurt in memory of the writer Ingeborg Bachmann and has been awarded annually since 1977 during the German-language Literature Days event, which lasts several days . It is considered one of the most important literary awards in the German-speaking world.
In 2020, the event was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . However, several jury members protested against this decision, who argued that the competition should take place in an alternative form. ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz then announced that he would be working on a digital version on the Internet. On May 28, 2020, the authors invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2020 were announced.
description
In a three-day reading event, preselected applicants compete one after the other and present previously unpublished prose texts or excerpts for around 25 minutes. The original texts must be written in German. This procedure is intended to convince the audience in the hall and, in particular, the specialist jury in Klagenfurt of the quality of the texts presented. In this way, the winners of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and other prizes awarded at the Days of German-Language Literature event are determined annually. In 2008 the jury was reduced from nine to seven members and the field of participants was reduced from eighteen to fourteen authors. The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize has been endowed with 25,000 euros since 2006 (previously: 22,500 euros). In 2010, prize money totaling 56,500 euros was awarded. The Deutschlandfunk Prize, endowed by Deutschlandradio and endowed with 12,500 euros , will be awarded from 2017 , with a total of 62,500 euros in prize money. Also in 2017, Deutschlandfunk broadcast the entire competition live on digital radio for the first time.
history
The journalist and book author Humbert Fink as well as the then director of the ORF regional studio in Carinthia , Ernst Willner , had the idea in the mid-1970s of launching a literary competition based on the model of Gruppe 47 in Klagenfurt , and were able to manage Marcel Reich- Win Ranicki as a member of the jury. This gave rise to the Days of German-Language Literature , which have been taking place in Klagenfurt every year in early summer since 1977.
The competition was initially shown in excerpts on television and has been broadcast live in full on 3sat's satellite program since 1989 . The financial involvement with the ORF and its desire for a format that is as TV-compatible as possible has led to tensions with more conservative actors at the event over the years, most recently in the 2008 reforms. Also the sudden departure of the event manager Michaela Monschein in autumn 2012 viewed critics in connection with a change that broadcasters wanted.
Exit considerations of the ORF
In 2013, the ORF considered leaving the competition from 2014 due to austerity measures. Since the broadcaster had to reduce its expenses by around 80 million euros, it could no longer afford the 750,000 euros for the literary competition (350,000 for the actual competition, another 400,000 including all ancillary costs). The announcement by ORF was seen as a threat to soften the austerity requirements imposed by Austrian politics on the broadcaster.
The literary critic Hubert Winkels (member of the jury), the former chairman of the ORF board of trustees, Siegbert Metelko, cultural councilor Wolfgang Waldner and the city of Klagenfurt then expressed protests. A takeover of the competition by the municipality ruled out the latter. Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann also spoke out in favor of preservation and declared: "The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize will continue to exist in the future".
On the last day of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2013, ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz announced an agreement with the ORF State Director Karin Bernhard , the Governor of Carinthia Peter Kaiser and those responsible for the city of Klagenfurt on the continuation of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. The original request for a refund of fees remains, but missing funds are to be covered by sponsors.
Prices
The main prize of the competition was donated in memory of Ingeborg Bachmann , one of the most important Austrian writers, who is one of the most important authors in Group 47 and who has had a decisive influence on it. In addition, additional awards are given over the years:
- the Kelag Prize, which replaced the Prize of the State of Carinthia because Governor Jörg Haider refused to finance the prize because of criticism of his cultural policy (2000–2005 “Prize of the Jury”, 2006–2008 “Telekom Austria Prize”) with 10,000 euros)
- the 3sat Prize ( scholarship donated by 3sat , 7,500 euros)
- the Ernst Willner Prize (donated by numerous German-language publishers until 2013, 5,000 euros (until 2011: 7,000 euros)). Since 2014, the prize has been donated exclusively by the Klagenfurt bookstore Heyn and is called »Mr. Heyn's Ernst Willner Prize «.
- the audience award (awarded since 2002, awarded by BKS Bank as the BKS audience award since 2011 and endowed with 7,000 euros)
- the Deutschlandfunk Prize (awarded since 2017 and endowed with 12,500 euros by Deutschlandradio )
Since 1998, the State Prize for Literary Translation , the Translatio , which has existed since 1987, has also been awarded for the previous year as part of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, on the one hand for the translation of a work of contemporary Austrian literature into a foreign language and on the other hand for the translation a foreign-language work of contemporary literature into German. Both prizes are endowed with 10,000 euros each (as of 2019).
Award winners
From 2020
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2020 : Helga Schubert : From getting up
- Deutschlandfunk Prize: Lisa Krusche : Fighting for certain worlds and against others
- Kelag Prize: Egon Christian Leitner : Always at War
- 3sat Prize: Laura Freudenthaler : The hottest summer
- BKS audience award: Lydia Haider : The great greeting
2010 to 2019
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2019 Birgit Birnbacher : The closet
- Deutschlandfunk Prize: Leander Fischer : Directory of nymphs, pattern number one gold head
- Kelag Prize: Julia Jost : Not far from the Jackal Valley
- 3sat Prize: Yannic Han Biao Federer : I don't know
- BKS audience award: Ronya Othmann : Seventy -four
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2018 Tanja Maljartschuk : Frogs in the sea
- Deutschlandfunk Prize: Bov Bjerg : SERPENTINEN
- Kelag Prize: Özlem Özgül Dündar : and I'm on fire
- 3sat Prize: Anna Stern : Waiting for Ava
- BKS audience award: Raphaela Edelbauer : Das Loch
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2017 Ferdinand Schmalz : my favorite animal is winter
- Deutschlandfunk Prize: John Wray : Madrigal
- Kelag Prize: Eckhart Nickel : Hysteria
- 3sat Prize: Gianna Molinari : Loses Portfolio
- BKS audience award: Karin Peschka : Wiener Kindl
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2016 Sharon Dodua Otoo : Mr. Gröttrup sits down
- Kelag Prize: Dieter Zwicky : Los Alamos is tiny
- 3sat Prize: Julia Wolf : Walter Nowak remains lying
- BKS audience award: Stefanie Sargnagel : Penne vom Kika
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2015 Nora Gomringer : Research
- Kelag Prize: Valerie Fritsch : The leg
- 3sat Prize: Dana Grigorcea : The primary feeling of innocence
- BKS audience award: Valerie Fritsch : The leg
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2014 Tex Rubinowitz : We were never here
- Kelag Prize: Michael Fehr : Simeliberg (excerpts)
- 3sat Prize: Senthuran Varatharajah : Before the increase in characters
- Mr. Heyn's Ernst Willner Prize: Katharina Gericke : DOWN DOWN DOWN To The Queen Of Chinatown
- BKS audience award: Gertraud Klemm : Ujjayi
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2013 Katja Petrowskaja : Maybe Esther
- Kelag Prize: Verena Güntner : Bring it
- 3sat Prize: Benjamin Maack : “How to catch a beetle correctly” by Joachim Kaltenbach
- Ernst Willner Prize: Heinz Helle : We are beautiful
- BKS audience award: Nadine Kegele : swallowing broken pieces
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2012 Olga Martynova : I will say: 'Hi!'
- Kelag Prize: Matthias Nawrat : Entrepreneur
- 3sat Prize: Lisa Kränzler : Want to run away
- Ernst Willner Prize: Inger-Maria Mahlke
- BKS audience award: Cornelia Travnicek : Young dogs
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2011 Maja Haderlap : In the boiler
- Kelag Prize: Steffen Popp : Trace of a village history
- 3sat Prize: Nina Bußmann : Big Holidays
- Ernst Willner Prize: Leif Randt : Shimmering haze over CobyCounty
- Audience Award: Thomas Klupp : 9to5 Hardcore
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2010 Peter Wawerzinek : Raven love
- Kelag Prize: Dorothee Elmiger : Invitation to the daring
- 3sat Prize: Judith Zander : Things we said today
- Ernst Willner Prize: Aleks Scholz : Google Earth
- Audience award: Peter Wawerzinek: Rabenliebe
2000 to 2009
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2009 Jens Petersen : Until death
- Kelag Prize: Ralf Bönt : The photo effect
- 3sat Prize: Gregor Sander : Winterfisch
- Ernst Willner Prize: Katharina Born : Fifty Fifty
- Audience award: Karsten Krampitz : going home
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2008 Tilman Rammstedt : The Emperor of China
- Telekom Austria Prize: Markus Orths : The chambermaid
- 3sat Prize: Patrick Findeis : Not a beautiful country
- Ernst Willner Prize: Clemens J. Setz : The scales
- Audience Award: Tilman Rammstedt: The Emperor of China
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2007 Lutz Seiler : Turksib
- Telekom Austria Prize: Thomas Stangl : Without a title without end
- 3sat Prize: PeterLicht : The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium
- Ernst Willner Prize: Jan Böttcher : Freundwärts
- Audience award: PeterLicht : The story of my assessment at the beginning of the third millennium
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2006 Kathrin Passig : You are here
- Telekom Austria Prize: Bodo Hell : Stadt Land Berg
- 3sat Prize: Norbert Scheuer : Überm Rauschen (later extended to the novel)
- Ernst Willner Prize: Angelika Overath : The Aquarium
- Audience Award: Kathrin Passig : You are here
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2005 Thomas Lang : On the rope
- Jury Prize: Julia Schoch : The Ride Through the Enemy
- 3sat Prize: Anne Weber : Excerpt
- Ernst Willner Prize: Natalie Balkow : Up where there is nothing left
- Audience award: Saša Stanišić : What we play in the basement ...
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2004 Uwe Tellkamp : Excerpt from the novel Sleep in the clocks
- Jury Prize: Arne Roß : Paul's Fall
- 3sat Prize: Guy Helminger : Pelargoniums
- Ernst Willner Prize: Simona Sabato : Beginning of a novel
- Audience award: Wolfgang Herrndorf : This side of the Van Allen belt
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2003 Inka Parei : Excerpt from the novel What was darkness
- Jury Prize: Feridun Zaimoglu : Skins
- 3sat Prize: Farhad Showghi : The Great Distance
- Ernst Willner Prize: Ulla Lenze : Sister and Brother (extract from a novel)
- Audience Award: Inka Parei : Excerpt from the novel What darkness was
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2002 Peter Glaser : History of Nothing
- Jury Prize: Annette Pehnt : Insel Thirty-Four
- Ernst Willner Prize: Mirko Bonné : Time out
- 3sat Prize: Raphael Urweider : Stones
- Audience award: Christoph W. Bauer : Aufstummen
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2001 Michael Lentz : Mother death
- Jury Prize: Jenny Erpenbeck : Sibirien
- Ernst Willner Prize: Antje Rávic Strubel : The fairy tale of the self-chosen kidnapping
- 3sat Prize: Katrin Askan : Popular
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2000 Georg Klein : Excerpt from a long prose text
- Jury Prize: Susanne Riedel : Knots (excerpt from a novel manuscript)
- Ernst Willner Prize: Andreas Maier : Diagnosis lesson
- 3sat Prize: Julia Franck : Nothing to me, nothing to you
- Scholarships from the independent platform for Carinthians interested in culture: David Wagner : Der Wasserschaden and Malin Schwerdtfeger : Fell und Federn
1990 to 1999
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1999 Terézia Mora : The Ophelia Case
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Stefan Beuse : Shutter speed
- Ernst Willner Prize: Thor L. Kunkel : The double life of the amoeba
- 3sat Prize: Christian Uetz : Hirnhelle Heroine
- Telekom Austria Scholarship: Patricia Görg : Lucky split
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1998 Sibylle Lewitscharoff : PONG.
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Kathrin Schmidt : JULY. From: The Gunnar Lennefsen Expedition, Roman.
- Ernst Willner Prize: John von Düffel : Fly fishing. Chapter IV from the novel "Vom Wasser".
- 3sat grant: Ralf Bönt : Gold. Extract from the novel.
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1997 Norbert Niemann : How to take it
- Prize of the Province of Carinthia: Steffen Kopetzky : Einbruch und Wahn. An experiment on the machinations of others
- Ernst Willner Prize: Bettina Galvagni : The Last Icon
- 3sat grant: Zoë Jenny : The pollen room
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1996 Jan Peter Bremer : The Prince speaks
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Johannes Jansen : Thicket adaptation
- Ernst Willner Prize: Felicitas Hoppe : The topping-out ceremony
- Bertelsmann Literature Prize: Lydia Mischkulnig : Gang
- 3sat grant: Heiko Michael Hartmann : MOI
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1995 Franzobel : The Krautflut
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Ulrike Kolb : After that
- Ernst Willner Prize: Ingo Schulze : 33 moments of happiness
- Bertelsmann Literature Prize: Ilija Trojanow : The world is big and salvation lurks everywhere
- 3sat scholarship: Gundi Feyrer : My seeing
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1994 Reto Hänny : Guai
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Raoul Schrott : Ludwig Höhnel - Totenheft
- Ernst Willner Prize: Stefanie Menzinger : The gardener, the cat and me
- Bertelsmann grant: Ruth Schweikert : Fifty francs
- 3sat scholarship: Doron Rabinovici : Mullemann
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1993 Kurt Drawert : House without people. A condition
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Hanna Johansen : Anderes Licht
- Ernst Willner Prize: Sandra Kellein : portrait format
- Bertelsmann grant: Jan Peter Bremer : The short way
- 3sat grant: Dirk Brauns : prime example
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1992 Alissa Walser : Free
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Alois Hotschnig : Rescue
- Ernst Willner Prize: Ulrich Holbein : Universe sleepless
- Bertelsmann grant: Ulrich Peltzer : (untitled)
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Burkhard Spinnen : Der Pfeiler
- 3sat grant: Fritz Krenn : Das Holz
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1991 Emine Sevgi Özdamar : Life is a caravanserai
- Prize of the Province of Carinthia: Urs Allemann : Babyficker
- Ernst Willner Prize: Marcel Beyer : Flying foxes
- Bertelsmann grant: Peter Wawerzinek : Moppel Schappik
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Hubert Konrad Frank : Café Wintergarten
- 3sat grant: Theres Roth-Hunkeler : The birthmark
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1990 Birgit Vanderbeke : Eating mussels
- Prize of the Province of Carinthia: Franz Hodjak : The jacket
- Ernst Willner Prize: Ludwig Roman Fleischer : Rakontimer
- Publishers' grant: Ingeborg Harms : On the broad neck of a pond turtle
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Cornelia Manikowsky : A woman and a boy
- 3sat award: Pieke Biermann : The law of the eye
1980 to 1989
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1989 Wolfgang Hilbig : A transmission
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Norbert Gstrein : Dschungel. A prologue
- Ernst Willner Prize: Sabine Peters : three questions
- Publishers' grant: Bernd Schirmer : From Cahlenberg
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Thomas Hettche : Ludwig must die
- 3sat award: Eberhard Häfner : Roter Cox
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1988 Angela Krauss : The service
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Anselm Glück : history
- Ernst Willner Prize: Michael Wildenhain : Narrow place
- Scholarship from 23 publishers: Bernhard Gierds : The flight of the canaries
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Sylvia Brandis : A very special friend
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1987 Uwe Saeger : Without disabilities, without wrong movement
- Prize of the Province of Carinthia: Werner Fritsch : Cherubim II: Wenzel Heindl, DAS WERNERL
- Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry: Anna Langhoff : Four texts: The emergency butcher's knife in my chest , a thousand meter heartbeat , North Sea's Odysseus , the necessity
- Ernst Willner Scholarship: Irina Liebmann : Did you use the night?
- The authors awarded the literary promotion prize of the city of Dachau in equal parts to the Documentation Center of the Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime in Vienna and to the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime
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1986 Katja Lange-Müller : Kaspar Mauser - Cowardice in front of a friend
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Ingrid Puganigg : The Maniefest
- Prize of the Federation of Industry: Jochen Beyse : The Monkey House
- Prize of the City of Wiesbaden: Zsuzsanna Gahse : Seven people
- Ernst Willner Scholarship: Daniel Grolle : Sieger and There's something down there , Arnulf Ploder : Earth gravity
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1985 Hermann Burger : The Badgastein waterfall eclipse
- Prize of the State of Carinthia: Birgit Kempker : In der Allee
- Industrialists' Association Prize: Ginka Steinwachs : The post-baroque temperament in its Barcelona element
- Ernst Willner Scholarship: Lilian Faschinger : The new Scheherazade and Dante Andrea Franzetti : Cosimo and Hamlet
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1984 Erica Pedretti : The model and its painter
- Special prize from the Klagenfurt jury: Renate Schostack : Address to Sister Benedicta
- Prize of the Federation of Industry: Wolfgang Hegewald : Burgenland
- Ernst Willner Scholarship: Helen Meier : Light sensitive and Thomas Strittmatter : The black sausage hammer
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1983 Friederike Roth : From The Book of Life
- Special prize from the Klagenfurt jury: Gerhard Köpf : Threshold gang
- Prize of the Federation of Industry: Uwe Herms : The Parrots of New York
- Ernst Willner Scholarship: Wolfgang Linder : Dunst and Bodo Morshäuser : Nur die Liebe
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1982 Jürg Amann : Rondo
- Special prize from the Klagenfurt jury: Birgitta Arens : Katzengold
- Prize of the Federation of Industry: Einar Schleef : Wittenbergplatz
- Scholarship from the publishers: Ulla Berkéwicz : Josef dies and Walter Vogl : Geräusche
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1981 Urs Jaeggi : Ruth
- Special prize of the Klagenfurt jury: Eva Demski : Carnival
- Publishers' scholarship: Franz Mechsner : Walk and Dominik Brun : Scrapes
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1980 Sten Nadolny : Copenhagen 1801
- Special prize from the Klagenfurt jury: Anna Jonas : The aunt's house
- Publishers' grant: Ingrid Puganigg : Fasnacht
1977 to 1979
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1979 : Gert Hofmann , Die Fistelstimme
- Special prize of the Klagenfurt jury: Josef Winkler : Pictures from the work: Der Ackermann from Carinthia
- Scholarship: Walter Müller : Apocalypso
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1978 : Ulrich Plenzdorf , no down, no far
- Special prize from the Klagenfurt jury: Gertrud Leutenegger : Zurich or Atlantis is always in danger
- Scholarship: Katja Behrens : Love
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1977 : Gert Jonke , first draft at the beginning of a very long story
- Special prize of the Klagenfurt jury: Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich : attempts to intimidate
- Scholarship: Renate Schostack : Das Haus
Moderation
In the early years, Ernst Willner led the show as a representative of the organizing ORF, who was also a full voting member of the jury. His successors on the ORF regular chair, Manfred Mixner (1984-85) and Roman Roček (1986), did the same . In 1987, through a change in the statutes, the organizer and jury were separated and Ernst Alexander Rauter became the moderating jury member without voting rights. Ernst Grissemann followed him in 1988 . who exercised the moderator's office without participating in the discussion. In 1997, Grissemann handed over the moderation to Ernst A. Grandits , who - after an interim year with Dieter Moor - was followed in 2009 by ORF cultural journalist Clarissa Stadler . Christian Ankowitsch has been the moderator since 2013 .
literature
- The best. Klagenfurt texts. Selection of the read texts with excerpts from jury discussions and the reasons for the award, edited by the respective jury chairperson. Published annually, from 1977 to 1989 by List, since 1990 by Piper, Munich (except 2001: Jung und Jung).
- Iso Camartin (Ed.): The best. The winners from 25 years of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Piper, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-492-04349-6 .
- Doris Moser: The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Stock exchange, show, event. Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77188-5 . ( Publisher review ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cancellation of the 44th Bachmann Prize 2020. In: ORF.at . March 27, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Bachmann jury against suspension of the award , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, March 28, 2020, accessed on March 29, 2020.
- ^ "Digital edition": Bachmann Prize is taking place. In: ORF.at . March 30, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Bachmann Prize this year with five participants from Austria. In: DerStandard.at . May 28, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Days of German-Language Literature (Ingeborg Bachmann Prize) ( Memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The composition of the juries can be found in the annual articles of the award. See also the " Statutes of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2013 ( Memento of August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )".
- ^ ORF : Bachmann Prize 2010 with Carinthian author ; Retrieved May 27, 2010
- ↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at - prizes and donors 2017 . Retrieved May 25, 2017.
- ↑ Dirk Knipphals: Monschein's surprising end . taz of November 27, 2012
- ↑ Bachmann Prize: Departure with many unanswered questions , Der Standard from November 29, 2012
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: ORF wants to drop out of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition , June 21, 2013
- ↑ Hubert Winkels: Volltext_Newsletter_26_3_20133_26_2013 Wanted: alive ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In full text , June 21, 2013
- ↑ Marianne Fischer: Bachmann Prize: Looking for a solution together . Kleine Zeitung of June 23, 2013 ( online ( memento of September 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), June 23, 2013).
- ^ Antonia Gössinger: Chancellor word for Bachmann Prize . Kleine Zeitung of June 29, 2013 ( online , accessed April 23, 2020).
- ↑ Days of German-Language Literature 2013: Bachmann Prize continued existence saved , accessed on August 14, 2013
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: The Bachmann Prize is Saved ( Memento from October 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), from July 7, 2013
- ^ Austrian State Awards for Literary Translation for Cornelius Hell and Maja Badridse , buecher.at from June 25, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019
- ↑ orf.at: Birgit Birnbacher wins Bachmann Prize 2019 . Article dated June 30, 2019, accessed June 30, 2019.
- ↑ orf.at: Tanja Maljartschuk wins Bachmann Prize 2018 . Article dated July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Schmalz wins Bachmann Prize . Article dated July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.
- ↑ Bachmann Prize goes to Sharon Dodua Otoo at kaernten.orf.at, July 3, 2016 (accessed July 3, 2016).
- ↑ Bachmann Prize goes to Nora Gomringer at kaernten.orf.at, July 5, 2015 (accessed on July 5, 2015).
- ↑ Rubinowitz wins Bachmann Prize at kaernten.orf.at, July 6, 2014 (accessed on July 6, 2014).
- ↑ Petrowskaja wins Bachmann Prize at kaernten.orf.at, July 7, 2013 (accessed on July 7, 2013).
- ↑ Olga Martynova wins Bachmann Prize at kaernten.orf.at, July 8, 2012 (accessed July 8, 2012).
- ↑ Moser 2004, p. 176 f.