Open Mike
The Open Mike (spelling: open mike ) is an international German-language literary prize . Along with the Klagenfurt Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, it is the most important competition for new discoveries in German-language literature. Its name is derived from the English term for open stage (" open mic ").
Structures
The Open Mike has been awarded annually since 1993 by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in the prose and poetry categories. In contrast to the Bachmann Prize, the open mike is aimed exclusively at the next generation of literature. Only German-speaking authors who are not older than 35 and who have not yet published their own books can take part. As part of the international competition for young German-language prose and poetry sponsored by the Crespo Foundation , various colloquia and writing workshops take place in the framework program, in which finalists from previous years can participate free of charge.
Six editors from renowned publishers select a maximum of 22 finalists from the anonymized text submissions. They will be invited to the two-day public competition event in Berlin for a November weekend. Each participant has exactly 15 minutes for their reading. The jury, consisting of writers, selects up to three winners and awards prize money totaling 7,500 euros. One of them is reserved for poetry. There is also an audience award . This taz prize from the audience jury rewards the winner with a copy of his text in the taz . The Berlin public radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur makes a recording and creates a feature about the open mike weekend and the winners. All final texts of the open mike will be published as anthologies by Allitera Verlag on the date of the competition . After the reading competition, all finalists can take part in a writing workshop where they can talk to successful authors and experienced publishers about their texts. The three winners can go on a reading tour to introduce themselves to a curious literary public in Frankfurt am Main , Vienna and Bern .
For the professional talent scouts in the book publishing industry , literary agents and literary critics , the open mike is meanwhile an annual must-attend event.
Award winners
- 1993 Wolfgang Schlenker , Tim Krohn , Kathrin Röggla
- 1994 Ulf Stolterfoht , Karen Duve , Michael Müller
- 1995 Julia Franck , Sabine Neumann, Christian Futscher
- 1996 Marcus Jensen , Vera Henkel, Olaf Behrens
- 1997 Robby Dannenberg , Björn Kuhligk , Terézia Mora
- 1998 Boris Preckwitz , Stephan Groetzner , Tobias Hülswitt
- 1999 Almut Tina Schmidt , Jochen Schmidt , Michael Stauffer
- 2000 Zsuzsa Bánk , Claudia Klischat , Markus Orths
- 2001 Nico Bleutge , Erika Anna Markmiller, Tilman Rammstedt
- 2002 Kai Weyand , Christian Schünemann, Ariane Grundies
- 2003 Kirsten Fuchs , Veronika Reichl, Petra Lehmkuhl
- 2004 Christian Schloyer , Rene Becher, Rabea Edel
- 2005 Lucy Fricke , Dagrun Hintze, Jörg Albrecht
- 2006 Luise Boege , Katharina Schwanbeck, Julia Zange
- 2007 Johann Trupp, Tina Ilse Gintrowski, Judith Zander , taz audience award: Johann Trupp
- 2008 Svealena Kutschke , Sonia Petner, Thien Tran , taz - Audience Award : Johanna Wack
- 2009 Inger-Maria Mahlke , Matthias Senkel , Konstantin Ames , taz audience award: Matthias Senkel
- 2010 Janko Marklein, Jan Snela , Levin Westermann , taz audience award: Sebastian Polmans
- 2011 Christina Böhm, Joseph Felix Ernst, Sebastian Unger , taz audience award: Christina Böhm
- 2012 Sandra Gugić , Juan S. Guse , Martin Piekar , taz Audience Award : Joey Juschka
- 2013 Jens Eisel , Dmitrij Gawrisch, Maren Kames, taz audience award: Maren Kames
- 2014 Doris Anselm, Robert Stripling, Mareike Schneider, taz audience award: Gerasimos Bekas
- 2015 Jessica Lind , Theresia Töglhofer, Andra Schwarz, taz audience award: Philip Krömer for "one of the other"
- 2016 Thilo Dierkes, Sandra Burkhardt, Benjamin Quaderer, taz audience award: Rudi Nuss
- 2017 Mariusz Hoffmann, Ralph Tharayil, Ronya Othmann , taz Audience Award : Baba Lussi
- 2018 Yade Yasemin Önder, Kyrill Constantinides Tank, Lara Rüter, taz audience award: Caren Jeß
- 2019 Carla Cerda Hegerl, Sina Ahlers and Fiona Sironic
Other participants
Among the participants were u. a. Leif Randt , Karsten Krampitz , Maik Lippert , Nils Mohl , Mascha Kurtz , Nikolai Vogel , Sünje Lewejohann , Lino Wirag , Patrick Findeis , Thomas von Steinaecker and Anja Frisch .
Web links
- Web presence of the open mike
- Stefanie Graf: "'Open Mike' - A competition between funding and marketing" (Master thesis 2007) (PDF; 612 kB)
- Reports on the 17th Open Mike by Wolfgang Schneider (FAZ) , Elisabeth Grün (Börsenblatt) and Christoph Schröder (FR)
- Report on the 20th Open Mike on Deutschlandradio Kultur by Vanja Budde : [1] [2]
Individual evidence
- ↑ see moderation by Joachim Scholl in Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 14, 2016
- ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: Game rangers meet doctors' sons on the hunt . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 11, 2014, p. 12.
- ↑ the winners of the open mike 2015 , Open Mike the blog of November 8, 2015
- ↑ The Open Mike winners 2016 , Deutschlandradio Kultur from November 14, 2016
- ↑ Yade Yasemin Önder, Kyrill Constantinides Tank, Lara Rüter and Caren Jeß win the 26th open mike , message from Haus der Poesie from November 19, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2019.
- ^ House for Poetry :: The Prize Winners. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .