Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1998

The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1998 was the 22nd competition for the literature prize at the Days of German-Language Literature . The event took place from June 23 to 27, 1998 in the Klagenfurt ORF theater of the Carinthian regional studio . Since this year the State Prize for Literary Translation has been awarded at the festival. The ORF developed the first website for the competition.

Authors

First reading day

• Michael Lentz : That was the worst dream for you
• Sibylle Severus : The Granite Egg (extract from a novel)
• Ralf Bönt : Gold (extract from a novel)
• Silvia Szymanski : Dry cleaning (extract from a novel)
• John von Düffel : Fly fishing (extract from the novel from Vom Wasser )
• Tim Staffel : Cottage cheese

Second reading day

• Leander Scholz : Lucky and Hilal return home after bathing
• Kurt Bracharz : A Snake Story or The Maltese's Dream
• Margit Schreiner : The bag
• Kathrin Schmidt : The Gunnar Lennefsen Expedition
• Sibylle Lewitscharoff : Pong
• Olivia Kleinknecht : Later success

Third reading day

• Inka Bach : On a case-by-case basis
• Christian Paul Berger : In the summer wind
• Christian Futscher : 13 master stories
• Jan Lurvink : Windladen (extract from a novel)

Jurors

• Silvia Bovenschen
• Iso Camartin (jury spokesman)
• Thomas Hettche
• Ulrike Längle
• Iris Radisch
• Hardy Ruoss
• Robert Schindel

Award winners

• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 250,000 ÖS ): Sibylle Lewitscharoff
• Prize of the State of Carinthia (endowed with 120,000 ÖS): Kathrin Schmidt
• Ernst Willner Prize (100,000 ÖS): John von Düffel
• 3sat scholarship (endowed with 6,000 DM ): Ralf Bönt

Web links

• 25 years Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , ORF online archivefor the Bachmann Competition 1977–2000
• Bachmann Prize 1998 - archive with all texts and reports

literature

• Iso Camartin (Ed.): Klagenfurt texts for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1998 . Piper: Munich 1998. ISBN 3-492-04064-0