Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2008
The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2008 was the 32nd competition for the literature prize as part of the Days of German-Language Literature . The event took place from June 26th to 28th, 2008 in the Klagenfurt ORF theater of the Carinthia regional studio . The event was moderated once by Dieter Moor .
Several reforms came into force that year to “streamline” the format. The number of jurors was reduced from nine to seven, the number of authors from 18 to 14. In addition, the entire event was shortened: the three reading days became two, and the voting on the winners was brought forward from the Sunday after the reading days to the evening of the last reading day. The shortening of the time was withdrawn in the following year.
Another innovation concerned the texts themselves. For the first time, the competition entries were published simultaneously on the Internet in German, English, French, Italian, Croatian, Spanish, Czech and Slovenian. ORF's online reporting has also been internationalized. The complex project was repeated in the following years, but canceled in 2012.
The Riesenmaschine weblog participated with an “automatic literary criticism prize”, for which plus and minus points were awarded based on a list of properties of the text or the author; the prize of 500 euros ultimately went to Tilman Rammstedt .
Authors
First reading day
- Thorsten Palzhoff : Livia , suggested by Ijoma Mangold
- Alina Bronsky : Shard Park (extract from a novel), suggested by Ijoma Mangold
- Clemens J. Setz : The scales , proposed by Daniela Strigl
- Angelika Reitzer : Super-8 , suggested by André Vladimir Heiz
- Martin von Arndt : Death is a postman with a hat (extract from a novel), proposed by Alain Claude Sulzer
- Patrick Findeis : No beautiful country (excerpt from a novel), suggested by Burkhard Spinnen
- Markus Orths : The chambermaid (extract from a novel), suggested by Daniela Strigl
Second reading day
- Heike Geißler : The airy life , suggested by Ursula März
- Sudabeh Mohafez : In the Red Sea , suggested by Klaus Nüchtern
- Dagrun Hintze : fear of flying , suggested by Burkhard Spinnen
- Pedro Lenz : Inland , suggested by André Vladimir Heiz
- Ulf Erdmann Ziegler : Pomona , suggested by Alain Claude Sulzer
- Tilman Rammstedt : The Emperor of China (extract from a novel), proposed by Ursula March
- Anette Selg : Mother's father , suggested by Klaus Nüchtern
Jurors
- André Vladimir Heiz
- Ursula March
- Ijoma Swiss chard
- Klaus Sober
- Burkhard Spinnen (chairman of the jury)
- Daniela Strigl
- Alain Claude Sulzer
Award winners
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (endowed with 25,000 euros): Tilman Rammstedt
- Telekom Austria Prize (endowed with 10,000 euros): Markus Orths
- 3sat Prize (7,500 euros): Patrick Findeis
- Ernst Willner Prize (7,000 euros): Clemens J. Setz
- Kelag Audience Award (endowed with 6,000 euros): Tilman Rammstedt
literature
- Ijoma Mangold (Hrsg.): The best 2008 - Klagenfurt texts. Piper 2008. ISBN 3-492-05209-6
Web links
- ORF online archive Bachmann Prize 2008