"New for me to be in this state – Bachmann Award Winner"

"New for me to be in this state – winner of the Bachmann Prize"

The Viennese Ukrainian Tanja Maljartschuk received the Bachmann Prize worth 25,000 euros

Stunned: Tanja Maljartschuk Bild: APA

"Bravo, we are relieved, finally literature": Even when Nora Gomringer, member of the jury, opened the discussion on the text of Tanja Maljartschuk in Klagenfurt in competition for the Prize Bachmann, it was clear that the Ukrainian had created something special for the eyes of the jurors. Only seven years ago, Maljarchuk, who lives in Vienna, started to learn German, but since yesterday she has been awarded the title of "Bachmann Prize Winner".

The text "Frogs in the Sea" deals with the migrant and worker Petro, who befriends an old mad woman whom he once encountered in the "frog park" "and who misses him one day. He seeks her, takes care of her and is considered by Mrs. Grill as her husband. His last visit, however, is very different from that expected, when finally the police appear. Petro, however, has no papers

Abyssal Text

Judge Insa Wilke ruled, "It's two kinds of loneliness, it's an abysmal text." Hildegard E. Keller saw "a parable about marginality, about self-extinction". There were minor objections at the end, which was partly perceived as being put in place.

The Bachmann Prize is endowed with 25,000 euros, and the prestige badociated with this title is even more pronounced: "This is new to me in this one State: Winner of the Bachmann Prize," said Malyarchuk, 35 years after the announcement and confessed to being "really shocked".

Video: Tanja Maljarchuk is Sunday with the 42nd Ingeborg The Bachmann Prize was awarded. The Ukrainian living in Vienna was able to carry it into the dam with its text "frogs in the sea" against Bov Bjerg and Raphaela Edelbauer.

During the dam, she voted against Bov Bjerg and Raphaela Edelbauer, this year the only Austrian candidate was successful

In total, seven authors participated in the literary contest of one seven-member jury chaired by Hubert Winkels.

As the 42nd Bachmann Prize, Maljartschuk takes over from Styrian Ferdinand Schmalz The € 14,500 Deutschlandfunk Prize was awarded to the German Bov Bjerg, the Kelag Prize (€ 10,000) to Özlem Özgül Dündar , also German.

Stern won the 3sat prize with a prize of 7500 €. The BKS Bank Audience Award, with a prize of € 7,000, won Wiener Raphaela Edelbauer.

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