Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2003

The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2003 was the 27th competition for the literature prize at the Days of German-Language Literature . The event took place from June 25th to 29th, 2003 in the Klagenfurt ORF theater of the Carinthia regional studio . The jury and field of participants have been expanded compared to the previous year, and almost all regular jury members from the Schindel era have been replaced by new staff.

Authors

First reading day

• Farhad Showghi : The great distance suggested by Ilma Rakusa
• Norbert Müller : Chicken in the soup , suggested by Josef Haslinger
• Christina Griebel : The pajamas , suggested by Burkhard Spinnen
• Christine Rinderknecht : Eleven thirty-three o'clock , suggested by Daniela Strigl
• Katrin de Vries : Die Lust am Walde (excerpt), suggested by Thomas Steinfeld
• Susanne Fischer : Cotton candy and singing , suggested by Friederike Kretzen
• Henning Ahrens : Commander Coeursledge (extract from a novel), proposed by Thomas Steinfeld

Second reading day

• Ulla Lenze : sister and brother (extract from the novel), suggested by Norbert Miller
• Sünje Lewejohann : In fern shade , suggested by Josef Haslinger
• Feridun Zaimoglu : Skins , suggested by Ursula March
• Lukas Hammerstein : The One Hundred and Twenty Days of Berlin (excerpt), suggested by Iris Radisch
• Michael Stauffer : Klagenfurt , suggested by Friederike Kretzen
• Kristof Schreuf : Truth is what men like to claim that they are about them , suggested by Iris Radisch
• Gregor Hens : John F. Kennedy and the eruption of the Irazú , suggested by Burkhard Spinnen

Third reading day

• Olga Flor : Return , suggested by Daniela Strigl
• Christof Hamann : Fester (extract from a novel), suggested by Norbert Miller
• Inka Parei : beginning of the novel, proposed by Ursula March
• Oswald Egger : Prose, Proserpina, Prose , suggested by Ilma Rakusa

Jurors

• Josef Haslinger
• Friederike Kretzen
• Ursula March
• Norbert Miller
• Iris Radisch (chairman of the jury)
• Ilma Rakusa
• Burkhard spiders
• Thomas Steinfeld
• Daniela Strigl

Award winners

• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 22,500 euros): Inka Parei
• Jury Prize (endowed with 10,000 euros): Feridun Zaimoglu
• 3sat prize (7,500 euros): Farhad Showghi
• Ernst Willner Prize (6,000 euros): Ulla Lenze
• Kelag audience award (5,000 euros): Inka Parei

literature

• Iris Radisch (ed.): The best 2003. Klagenfurt texts . Piper: Munich and Zurich 2003. ISBN 978-3-492-04538-4

Web links

• Bachmann Prize 2003 - ORF multimedia archive with all texts, reports and videos