Poetry / prose / fairy tale award AKUT
The AKUT poetry / prose / fairy tale award is an Austrian literary award .
The aim of the prize awarded by the municipality of Alberndorf in Riedmark together with the Linz cultural association, Friends of Contemporary Poetry , is to promote contemporary authors who write poetry , prose and their own fairy tales in German .
Participation is limited to authors residing in Upper Austria . Texts in Upper Austrian dialect can also be submitted. The prize, which has been awarded annually since 2007, is endowed with 2000 euros.
Regulations, jury, prizes
Unpublished texts are accepted, the length of which is limited to a maximum of three A4 pages for prose and fairy tale texts and a maximum of six poems. Poetry, prose and fairy tales by one author may not exceed a total of four A4 pages. The prize is awarded in the categories “Poetry and Prose” and “Fairy Tales”.
The submitted work will be evaluated by an international jury , which will select the winner and two other award winners for each of the two categories. The changing jury consists of several writers and German scholars. In 2010 the jury for the "AKUT 10" consisted of the following people:
- Constanze John , writer and publicist, Leipzig , Germany
- Michael Meinicke , writer, Wabern , Germany
- Kathrin Mayr , Germanist and author, Laatsch , South Tyrol / Italy
- Isabell Gemende , Lektorat Verlag Freya, Linz
The award will be presented at a public event during the annually since 2003 taking place in summer A lberndorfer Ku l t urtage ( "acute"), in which the winners can present their texts in public. The prizes for each category are 500 euros for the 1st prize, 300 euros for the 2nd prize and 200 euros for the 3rd prize. In addition, special prizes and certificates of appreciation for appealing contributions are sometimes awarded according to the decision of the jury.
The best contributions will be published in an anthology . So far, three such anthologies have been published, each of which was published by Freya publishing house in Linz . While the first anthology contained texts by 15 authors, a total of 78 authors are represented in the third part of the book series.
The Alberndorfer Prose / Poetry / Fairy Tale Prize AKUT contributes to the promotion of contemporary dialect poetry and prose ("New Dialect") in the Austrian state of Upper Austria and is one of the few prizes of this kind. About the literary prize and the "diverse literary contributions [...] Upper Austrian Authors ”is regularly reported nationwide in the media .
Award winners
- 2012 ("AKUT 12")
- Category prose: 1. Elisabeth Seiberl
- Poetry category: 1. Hans Dieter Mairinger
- Category fairy tales: 1. Petra Waibel (Ms. Berta's very personal spring)
- Category children special price 1. Jana Waibel
- 2011 ("AKUT 11")
- Special Poetry Prize: Petra Waibel
- 2010 ("AKUT 10")
- Poetry / prose category: 2. Werner Stangl
- Category fairy tales: 1. Claudia Edermayer
- 2009 ("AKUT 09")
- Poetry / prose category: 1. Werner Stangl, 3. Hermann Knapp
- Special Poetry Prize: Martina Sens
- Category fairy tales: 1. Lydia Neunhäuserer
- 2008 ("AKUT 08")
- Poetry / prose category: 1. Johanna Reinthaler
- Special poetry award: Werner Stangl
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- 2007 ("AKUT 07")
- Category poetry / prose :?
- Category fairy tales :?
Publications (selection)
- Welf Ortbauer (Ed.): Alberndorfer Anthologie No. 3 . Verlag Freya, Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-9902501-4-3 . (Collected works of the participants in the literary competition poetry / prose / fairy tale prize "AKUT 09" .)
- Alberndorfer Anthology No. 2 . Verlag Freya, Linz 2009 (= series treff.text ), ISBN 978-3-902540-78-2 . (Collected works of the participants in the literary competition poetry / prose / fairy tale prize "AKUT 08" .)
Web links
- Award of the "AKUT 10" prize ( PDF file; 14 kB)
- Program of the Alberndorfer Kulturtage "AKUT 10" ( PDF file; 2.0 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Literature Prize . In: Tips Ried (Mediengruppe Wimmer, Linz) of September 9, 2008, p. 13.
- ↑ See information on the jury on the award certificates: Certificate of recognition award "AKUT 10" (for Illa Aschauer) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 297 kB) of August 26, 2010. (Accessed September 29, 2010.)
- ↑ The Alberndorfer Kulturtage starts with a vernissage and cabaret . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of August 11, 2008. (Accessed September 29, 2010.)
- ↑ See program announcement for 2008: 27.8. --- Alberndorfer culture days . In: Die Berliner Literaturkritik , July 31, 2008. (Accessed September 29, 2010.)
- ↑ See also the announcement for 2009: LYRIK / PROSA / FAIRY PRICE AKUT 09 . At: Kultur-Institut at the Johannes Kepler University Linz , program summer semester 2009. (Accessed on September 29, 2010.)
- ↑ Alberndorfer anthology: "An increase is hardly possible" . In: Tips Urfahr / Umgebung (Mediengruppe Wimmer, Linz) of April 13, 2010, p. 3.
- ↑ Awarded literature prize . In: Tips Urfahr / Umgebung (Mediengruppe Wimmer, Linz) of August 31, 2010, p. 8.
- ↑ S 'sorry for women . In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of June 24, 2010, p. 20. (Accessed on September 29, 2010.)
