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Bachmann Sunday in Klagenfurt

Preisverleihung (Bild: Johannes Puch)

Traditionally, “inscrutable things” happen on the “tricky” Bachmann Sunday, the day the prizes are awarded – this year, however, everything was very quick and the winners were chosen. And again, the audience and the jury were in surprising agreement.[more...]

Day three: new favourites, major slating

Publikum (Bild: Johannes Puch)

On the last day of readings, Iris Schmidt’s text received some slating. It may go down in history as the least well received text of the FGLL 2010. For Peter Wawerzinek and Verena Rossbacher, there is still hope for a prize.[more...]

Verena Rossbacher (A)

Verena Rossbacher (Bild: Johannes Puch)

An Austrian “Alphabet der Indizien” [alphabet of circumstantial evidence] concluded the readings at this year’s Festival of German-Language Literature: Verena Rossbacher was the last one to compete with her novel excerpt “schlachten” [slaughtering].[more...]

Christian Fries (G)

Christian Fries (Bild: Johannes Puch)

The afternoon continued with author Christian Fries, who was proposed by Paul Jandl. His text “Hutmacher, privat” [hatter, private] made the audience laugh – some of the jury members, however, didn’t find it funny at all.[more...]

Iris Schmidt (G)

Iris Schmidt (Bild: Johannes Puch)

Iris Schmidt from Germany was invited by Elisabeth Keller and read from her text “Schnee” [snow]. Her text, slated by the jury as “Kafka rip-off” and “Stephen King for the poor”, will probably go down in FGLL history as the text that was worst received.[more...]

Peter Wawerzinek (G)

Peter Wawerzinek (Bild: Johannes Puch)

Peter Wawerzinek’s “Rabenliebe” [raven love] opened the third and final day of readings at the FGLL 2010. The author, who grew up in the GDR, was proposed by Meike Feßmann. [more...]

Day two: a first favourite?

Publikum (Bild: Johannes Puch)

On the second morning of readings, German author Aleks Scholz received much praise for his text “Google Earth”. Only juror Burkhard Spinnen accused it of being “heartless”. Judith Zander’s text was also relatively well received, Ballhausen and Kleindienst not so much.[more...]

Josef Kleindienst (A)

Josef Kleindienst (Bild: Johannes Puch)

Josef Kleindienst from Austria was the last author to read to the jury and the audience on the second day of readings. His text, “Ausgehen” [going out], fell into an abyss, so to speak, because of the suspicion of pornography.[more...]

Judith Zander (D)

Judith Zander (Bild: Johannes Puch)

The second afternoon of readings continued with Judith Zander’s text “Dinge, die wir heute sagten” [things we said today]. Zander had been invited by Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, whose colleagues were a little bored by her selection initially but found some words of praise eventually. [more...]

Aleks Scholz (D)

Aleks Scholz (Bild: Johannes Puch)

Aleks Scholz read “Google Earth”. The jury’s discussion of the text escalated, and the response was generally good – only one of the jurors completely refused to go along with it.[more...]