Donnersberg Literature Days

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The Donnersberger Literaturtage (DLT) are a voluntary literary event in Rhineland-Palatinate . They take place every two years as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer .

Goals and concept

The aim is to elevate the region around the Donnersberg to a Palatinate and, moreover, Rhineland-Palatinate literary stage. They originate from an initiative by Donnersberg authors (2006), which in the meantime (from 2008) was carried out by Thomas M. Mayr alone. Since 2012 the organization has been transferred to the Donnersberger Literaturverein, of which he is chairman.

Initially, the DLT was based on models such as the Rhineland-Palatinate Literature Days and the Eifel Literature Festival . In the meantime they have found their own style. The concept includes an advertisement for students in the Palatinate and Rheinhessen after completing secondary school, whereby the topic is based on that of the cultural summer Rhineland-Palatinate . In detail:

  • Students can only register through their school. The Susanne Faschon Prize is awarded to the winner .
  • In addition, a “prize for the most creative school to write” will be awarded.
  • The winners of each year are supported after the writing competition by enabling them to read in different parts of the country.
  • The Susanne Faschon Prize winners are members of the jury for the following competition.

Furthermore

  • nationally known authors are invited to readings; including a bilingual author.
  • Regionally known authors read it; including a dialect poet.
  • There is also a poetry slam.
  • There is no entrance fee for the readings.

In view of this concept, which also includes events for children, an art exhibition on the literary topic and appropriate lectures, the DLT are the most complex and varied literature festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, perhaps even in a national comparison. In terms of content, all types of literature are represented, from science fiction / fantasy to poetry.

history

The DLT are under the patronage of the respective Rhineland-Palatinate minister of culture and are largely financed from donations and public funds that flow into the project and program work.

They began in 2007 with the participation of students from all eligible schools in the Donnersbergkreis. Since 2017, they have included all pupils who have completed secondary school in the Palatinate , since 2019 also in Rheinhessen , and from 2021 throughout Rhineland-Palatinate . The DLT take place every two years. The readings were initially limited to one week and now cover the months of May and June. The number of visitors has risen continuously and in 2017 was with 13 events with over 1300 visitors.

In addition to the Susanne Faschon Prize, a “Prize for the most creative school in writing” has been awarded since 2015. Since 2015 it has honored the commitment of teachers.

Jury members

  • Barbara Franke , former chairwoman of the Palatinate Literary Association
  • Thomas Behnke, cultural advisor at the newspaper Die Rheinpfalz
  • Thomas Maria Mayr , chairman of the Donnersberger Literaturverein and author
  • the Susanne Faschon award winner of the last DLT

Susanne Faschon Prize

The Susanne Faschon Prize is endowed with € 2,000. A total of 10 students will be awarded. The first three with cash prizes of € 500 / € 300 / € 200, the following ten authors with € 100 each.

Award winners

Prize for the most creative school in Rhineland-Palatinate

The prize is endowed with € 200 as well as a reading and writing workshop sponsored by the Friedrich Bödecker Circle . The following are included in its evaluation: 1) Placement of the students of this school in the writing competition, 2) Implementation of a writing workshop or writing group in the school year of the competition, 3) Participation of at least 5 students. Have won:

Publications

Awards

Authors (selection)

At the Donnersberger literary days guests were u. a. Salim Alafenisch , Michael Bauer , Gabriele Beyerlein , Eugen Damm †, Sumaya Farhat-Naser , Sherko Fatah , Catalin Dorian Florescu , Georg Forster , Volker Gallé , Doris Gercke , Peter Härtling †, Markus Heitz , Annegret Held , Abbas Khider , Michael Konrad, Klaus Kordon , Katja Lange-Müller , Sibylle Lewitscharoff , Tanja Kinkel , Paul Maar , Jagoda Marinic , Ingrid Noll , Wolfgang Ohler , Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Gudrun Pausewang †, Ulrike Piechota , Andrea Maria Schenkel , Bernhard Schlink , Kathrin Schmidt , Helga Schneider , Norbert Schneider, Sylvia Schopf , Saša Stanišić , Petra Urban , Theresia Walser

Web links

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  • Press article in 2011 in: Die Rheinpfalz
  • Press article in 2013 in: Die Rheinpfalz
  • Press article in 2015 in: Die Rheinpfalz
  • Thomas M. Mayr : ZimmerLautStärke. Review of the 1. Donnersberger Literaturtage , In: Donnersberg-Jahrbuch , Vol. 31 (2008), pp. 134-138
  • SWR4, Sandra Biegger: Broadcast on reading and in it on the 3rd Donnersberg Literature Days, May 12, 2013
  • Heike Steger: On the maintenance and promotion of literature , In: Donnersberg-Jahrbuch , Vol. 37 (2014), pp. 153–154

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b world of authors: Susanne Faschon Prize. December 11, 2016, accessed April 24, 2020 .
  2. ^ District administration Donnersbergkreis - Prize Winners 2015. Accessed on April 24, 2020 .