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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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.
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...]
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...]
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...]
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, 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...]