FGLL 2010 on Web, radio and TV

The readings and discussions will be broadcast live on 3sat. There will also be many other highlights on the radio, the Internet and TV, in this, the 34th year of the event.[more...]

Klagenfurt Address on Literature

This year, the Klagenfurt Address on Literature will be delivered by Sibylle Lewitscharoff. The author was born in 1954 in Stuttgart and lives in Berlin.[more...]

Books and CDs

A compilation is published every year to go with the competition, featuring the best writing and photos, and a press review. For the 25th anniversary there was a special edition book and CD.[more...]

2010 dates and supporting programme

This year there are again a number of events associated with the Festival of German-Language Literature and "Ingeborg Bachmann".[more...]

State Prize for Translation

On 20 June the Austrian State Prize for Translation will be awarded at the Klagenfurt University Musil Institute. This year the "Translatio 2010" goes to Nelleke van Maaren and Heinrich Eisterer.[more...]

2010 prizes and sponsors

In the 34th year of Festival of German-Language Literature there will again be five awards: the Bachmann Prize, the Kelag Prize, the Ernst Willner Prize, the 3sat Prize and the Hypo Group Audience Award.[more...]

The 14th Klagenfurt Literature Course

From 20 to 24 June 2010 the Klagenfurt City Culture Department and the ORF Landesstudio Kärnten will be holding the14th Klagenfurt Literature Course, to which a maximum of ten authors will be invited.

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Bachmann-Prize goes Europe

Translating is crossing borders, building bridges and "poetic adaptation". For the third time now, all fourteen entries will be going online in eight languages as part of the "Bachmann Prize goes Europe" Internet project.[more...]

Press download section

As a service for all media, a download area has been was set up on our server where all current photos can be downloaded in print quality at no charge. [more...]

Contact, addresses, telephone numbers

If you have any questions about the Festival of German-Language Literature, please call or send an e-mail. You will find the main contact details below.[more...]

Link tips

On these pages you can find many links to interesting websites about Ingeborg Bachmann as well as on the topics of literature and authors. From here, you can go to the websites of the sponsors and other ORF offers. [more...]

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 - 1973)

Ingeborg Bachmann, writer and woman of letters, was born on 25 June 1926 in Klagenfurt. She was the daughter of a teacher. She attended school and matriculated in 1944, then studied Philosophy, German Language & Literature and Psychology.[more...]