Literature
Sharon Dodua Otoo wins the Ingeborg Bachmann prize
In the race for the prestigious Austrian literature prize Otoo was also, with a boiled egg for the win. In her humorous short story “Mr. Gröttrup to sit,” occurs as a self-conscious narrator.
Mr. Gröttrup, the namesake of the story, is a classic Patriarch, imposing his wife exactly how long it has to cook egg for Breakfast. In the midst of this Idyll, a screen bursting in and a half minutes long-boiled Egg, which dare to revolt against the Lord of the house. It refuses simply to be hard.
Sharon Dodua Otoos Text is a “charming, effortless Satire about the German everyday life,” praised the Jury the Text of the native British and the Berliner-by-Choice. “You are immersed in an egg and can be found in basic philosophical questions of life,” says jury President Hubert Winkels. Otoos main character is based on the 1981 deceased German engineer and rocket expert, Helmut Gröttup. With a fine sense of humour, so the Jury more, causing the uncertainty of a physicist who believes that the world is an experimental arrangement.
“A new voice in a new society”
Otoo was in a three-day reading competition in Klagenfurt “literary arena” on lake wörth, against 13 rivals and is now in for the 25,000 Euro top prize. The Klagenfurt mayor Maria Luise Mathiaschitz presented to the winner of the
Bachmann price, and Otoo was called “a new voice in a new society”.
“You need to sit down and get used to it,” said the joyful winner. The 43-Year-old grew up in London and has lived since 2006 in Berlin. She is active in the “Initiative of Black people in Germany” and has already written several novels and short stories, including “The things that I think, while I politely smile” (2012). In addition, Otoo publishes the English-language book series “Witnessed”. Now it was “her dream to write a novel. You have the time, the story that you’ve read at the Bachmann prize, expand, Otoo.
Audience award for noodles in the furniture store
Stefanie nail in the coffin and convinced the audience
The 7,000-Euro awarded to the audience award this year went to the Austrian Stefanie nail in the coffin for your Text “Penne from Kika”. She describes as the I-Narrator, as she spends a winter’s day in a host home, your time at the Bachmann-Text-Writing, topped by a plate of pasta in a furniture store. “Stefanie nail in the coffin is the funniest man in Austria,” a justification from the audience, or: “If Stefanie nail in the coffin to win, is Mr. H. President, she said. And she also writes awesome – seemingly banal, with incredible linguistic depth and dynamics in the Text.“
The also awarded to Kelag-prize of the Swiss Dieter could Zwicky for his Text, “Los Alamos is tiny”, the 3Sat prize went to the German author Julia Wolf “Walter Nowak remains”. None of the texts that were heard at the reading competition, it has been published. The award is named after the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) and is awarded since 1977, a year during the multi-day event “days of German literature”. He is considered to be one of the most prestigious literary awards in the German-speaking countries. In 2015, the Swiss-German woman, Nora Gomringer won.
suc/sti ( bachmann.orf.at/ dpa)