Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1981
The 1981 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize was the fifth competition for the literary prize. The reading marathon took place during the week of the encounter in the Klagenfurt town hall.
After the scandal last year , the participating authors were allowed to respond directly to the jury's criticism when discussing the texts. In addition, a prize was shared for the first time with the publisher's grant ; however, the allocation had almost doubled compared to the previous year.
Authors
First reading day
- Emil Zopfi
- Guntram Vesper : No man's land (partial draft of a long prose work)
- Pascal Morché
- Zbigniew Krempf
- Michael Rößner
- Rolf Niederhauser : Nada (extract from a novel)
- Ulrich Schacht : Secured Games (From a story)
- Ilma Rakusa : Two True Stories ( Reykjavik and Visit to Russikon )
Second reading day
- Elfriede Czurda
- Franz Mechsner
- Günter Hein
- Urs Jaeggi : Ruth (extract from the novel)
- Dominik Brun : Mining (excerpt from a longer prose work)
- Margrit Schriber
- Christoph Burgauner
- Eva Demski : Carnival (extract from a novel)
Third reading day
- Andreas Nohl : Divided
- Pierre Imhasly
- Gisela Zies : Paula (from a long prose work)
- Joseph Zoderer : Die Walsche (extract from a novel)
- Klaus Hoffer : The punishment
- Adelheid Duvanel : persecution
- Anton Dean
- Frank-Wolf Matthies : Report from the estate or imago
Fourth reading day
- Thomas Hürlimann : The Ticino woman
- Elisabeth Meylan
- Christoph Kubelka
- Maja Beutler : Alex
Jurors
- Humbert Fink
- Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich
- Peter Härtling
- Walter Jens
- Adolf Muschg
- Klara Obermüller
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Gert Ueding
- Heinrich Vormweg
- Ulrich Weinzierl
- Ernst Willner
Award winners
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 100,000 ÖS ): Urs Jaeggi for "Ruth"
- Special prize of the Klagenfurt jury (endowed with 75,000 ÖS): Eva Demski for "Carnival"
- Publishers' grant (endowed with 50,000 ATS): Franz Mechsner for "Walk" and Dominik Brun for "Mining"
literature
- Fink / Reich-Ranicki / Willner: Klagenfurt texts 1981 . Munich: List Verlag, 1981. ISBN 3471779612
- Reading order: Original document in the Robert Musil Institute of the University of Klagenfurt / Carinthian Literature Archive
Web links
- 25 years Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , ORF online archive for the Bachmann Competition 1977–2000