Gert Jonke Prize
The Gert Jonke Prize is a literary prize for prose, drama and poetry in memoriam of the Klagenfurt writer Gert Jonke , who died in 2009.
The prize, endowed by the state of Carinthia and the city of Klagenfurt and endowed with 15,000 euros, has been awarded every two years since 2011, depending on the breadth of Jonke's literary work, alternating in the main literary categories of prose, drama and poetry. The composition of the jury changes according to the categories.
The conception of the award, which is not tied to an age clause but should be based on publications, comes from the President of the International Robert Musil Society (IRMG) and head of the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research in Klagenfurt, Klaus Amann :
"With Jonke in mind, the prize is to be awarded to authors who expose and develop the aesthetic potential of language, i.e. for literature as the art of language."
The public suggestion for a prize named after Gert Jonke was given in 2009 by the Klagenfurt writer Egyd Gstättner in connection with the 33rd "Days of German-Language Literature" , but related to the renaming of one of the other prizes besides the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, whose first prize winner Jonke had once been. Another Carinthian writer, Josef Winkler , who also wrote an essay on Jonke, already had, as he himself writes, “ immediately after the death of Gert Jonke, in January 2009 before the Carinthian municipal council elections [...] the head of the Musilmuseum , Heimo Strempfl, given the recommendation to initiate a Gert Jonke Prize and to pass [his] idea on. “Josef Winkler can therefore be seen as the actual stimulus for the independent Gert Jonke Prize. The first winner, Alois Hotschnig, was also born in Carinthia.
Award winners
- 2011 Alois Hotschnig (prose)
- 2013 Friederike Roth and Händl Klaus (drama)
- 2015 Julian Schutting (poetry)
- 2017 Paul Nizon
- 2019 Ewald Palmetshofer
Web links
- Gert Jonke Prize on the website of the state capital Klagenfurt; Web presence from 2017 ( Memento from July 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Suggestion by Egyd Gstättner , ORF Carinthia, June 25, 2009 (accessed on January 21)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carinthian Week of January 19, 2011, p. 34
- ^ ORF Carinthia, June 25, 2009
- ↑ Norbert Mayer: A true poet . In: Die Presse v. January 5, 2009
- ↑ Josef Winkler: Gert Jonke. ( Memento from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Existence as incessant going up and down in a room. Desperation begins . Austria's literary landscape
- ^ Josef Winkler: Carinthian manners . In: Kleine Zeitung , January 26, 2011, p. 62
- ↑ derstandard.at of Jan. 18, 2011
- ↑ derstandard.at of March 7, 2013
- ↑ derstandard.at of March 23, 2015
- ^ Orf.at: Gert Jonke Prize to Ewald Palmetshofer . Article dated March 25, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019.