Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1997

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The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1997 was the 21st competition for the literature prize at the Days of German-Language Literature . The event took place from June 25th to 29th, 1997 in the Klagenfurt ORF theater of the Carinthia regional studio .

This year the scope of the competition was significantly reduced: The jury was reduced to seven instead of eleven members, and the number of invited authors was reduced accordingly from 22 in the previous year to 16. The competition was shortened from five to four days. Another far-reaching reform concerned the handling of the texts - they were no longer announced to the jurors at the competition, but made available a week in advance.

There were also changes in personnel. Peter Demetz , jury spokesman for ten years, left the jury, and the long-serving presenter Ernst Grissemann handed it over to Ernst A. Grandits .

The previous Bertelsmann Literature Prize was no longer awarded this year. Instead, the sponsor and the organizer founded the Klagenfurt Literature Course, which continued even after Bertelsmann withdrew from the 1999 Bachmann Prize.

Authors

Jurors

Award winners

  • Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 200,000 ÖS ): Norbert Niemann for How to Take It
  • Prize of the State of Carinthia (endowed with 100,000 AES): Steffen Kopetzky for burglary and madness. An experiment on the machinations of others
  • Ernst Willner Prize (85,000 ÖS): Bettina Galvagni for The Last Icon
  • 3sat scholarship (endowed with 6,000 DM ): Zoë Jenny for The Pollen Room

Web links

literature

  • Iso Camartin (Ed.): Klagenfurt texts for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1997 . Piper: Munich 1997. ISBN 3-492-03992-8