Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1991

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The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1991 was the 15th competition for the literary prize. The event took place in the Klagenfurt ORF theater of the Carinthia regional studio .

The literary festival was overshadowed by the armed conflict in nearby Slovenia . "The TV pictures of the dead on the streets of Slovenia came closer to you than the competition texts," said the ORF editorial team's in-house reporting in retrospect, especially since "their average level (...) was again significantly lower compared to the previous year" Commenter noted.

The award of the State of Carinthia to the Swiss author Urs Allemann , whose text Babyficker was initially rejected by the jury , caused a sensation . The second president of the state parliament and FPÖ culture spokeswoman Kriemhild Trattnig described Allemann's contribution as the “greatest prize-winning mess” and sparked a debate about censorship and the freedom of the jury. One observer spoke of a “black didactic piece”, Allemann's game with the “calculated shock” of the audience and the “professionalism of the jury” had worked out.

Some voices in the media debate stated that Allemann did not receive the main prize only because a major scandal was to be feared. In fact, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize itself went to the Turkish-born German Emine Sevgi Özdamar and for the first time ever to a non-native speaker. The latter later stated that she only felt accepted as a “guest author”.

Authors

Jurors

Award winners

  • Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 150,000 ÖS ): Emine Sevgi Özdamar for Life is a Caravanserai (extract from a novel)
  • Prize of the State of Carinthia (endowed with 100,000 ÖS): Urs Allemann for baby fuckers
  • Ernst Willner Prize (70,000 ÖS): Marcel Beyer for flying foxes
  • Scholarship from the Carinthian Industry (endowed with 30,000 ATS): Hubert Konrad Frank for Café Wintergarten
  • Bertelsmann scholarship (endowed with 6,000 DM ): Peter Wawerzinek for Moppel Schappik
  • 3sat scholarship (endowed with 6,000 DM): Theres Roth-Hunkeler for Das Muttermal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ War on the border . Archive 25 years of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . ( online , accessed June 27, 2013)
  2. ↑ Heini Vogler in the NZZ , without date, quoted from [1]
  3. ↑ Claus Ulrich Bielefeld on July 7, 1991 in the Sender Freies Berlin , quoted from [2]
  4. ^ Karen Jankowsky: "German" Literature Contested: The 1991 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize Debate, "Cultural Diversity," and Emine Sevgi Özdamar . In: The German Quarterly 70, 3. Duke University Press: Durham 1997. pp. 261 ff. ( Online , accessed June 27, 2013)

Web links

literature

  • Heinz Felsbach, Siegbert Metelko (ed.): Klagenfurt texts for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1991 . Piper: Munich 1991. ISBN 3-492-11494-6