The Austrian playwright has read the Betting in Klagenfurt against 13 competitors. The Name “Lard” is a Pseudonym, which also has a lot to do with his texts.
Ferdinand Schmalz, Matthias is actually Schweiger. Since his win of the text “my favorite animal in the winter is” all about the food, appears to be chosen the Pseudonym, almost programmatically. In small letters written Text is a cancer who is planning a suicide, like frozen venison ragout eats and therefore a special relationship to his Deep-freeze services. The Text brought the Jury to Laugh. The jurors quickly agreed that Ferdinand Schmalz deserves the 25,000 Euro Ingeborg Bachmann prize. The Text was “spotless”, said the critic, Sandra cone, on the invitation of Lard in the betting part read took. Others were that Lard had managed the mix of slapstick and seriousness. It is a Text, “the rocked really was”.
Lard, canned meat and Butter
As an aspiring playwright, the playwright Ferdinand Schmalz in the German-speaking countries already no longer a term.
Currently, Lard, came in 1985 as Matthias Schweiger in the Styrian city of Graz to the world, is working on an “Everyman”-Neudichtung for
the Burgtheater in Vienna. For his work in the theatre Lard was awarded already several times. The piece “on the example of the butter” price won the Retzhofer Drama. 2014 Schmalz of the journal “theatre today” was selected for the young author of the year. The piece “canned meat” was premiered in the following year, at the opening of the author’s theater days at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in a production by the Vienna Burgtheater.
In memory of the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann
The reading competition for the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann prize in Klagenfurt is the summer meeting of the Literary scene: the German-speaking young writers read in a multi-day competition in their latest texts. A TV camera of the ORF transmits the read Bet and the subsequent discussion, the Jury live on television and on the Internet.
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In the case of the 41. Days of German-language literature involved 14 authors, including four German.
The Festival reminds of the writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) and is considered to be an important Forum on contemporary German literature. The German authors were: Jörg-Uwe Albig from Bremen, the Frankfurt Eckhart Nickel, Noemi Schneider from Munich, and Jackie Thomae from Halle/Saale. Last year, the Berlin-based author Sharon Dodua Otoo had won.
A total of five prizes will be awarded: in addition to the main prize there is the newly founded prize of the German to win radio over 12,500 Euro (John Wray), the Kelag- (10,000 euros) (Eckhart Nickel), and the 3sat prize (7500 Euro) (Gianna Molinari). The audience voted via the Internet for Karin Perschka.
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