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Terezia Mora, winner of the Büchner Prize, criticizes incendiary speeches
The German-Hungarian author receives the most important literary prize in Germany.
After the 2013 German book prize for "The Monster", the Büchner Prize of Terezia Mora. Image: EPA
The German-Hungarian writer Terezia Mora has accepted the Georg Büchner prize of 50,000 euros. It is considered the most important literary prize in Germany. In his acceptance speech, Mora criticized a culture change of debate on Saturday in Darmstadt. In the last three months, public and private speeches have become radicalized in a direction "that we are rightly worried about," the 47-year-old journalist told The State Theater. "In the past, I could say that incendiary speeches do not happen at the governmental level in Germany, so I can not do it anymore."
Mora also reminded the Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy (1950-2016), "against artists who, besides the" left liberal ", have coated artists and in general against any form of intellectuality, at when a campaign is underway in Hungary ". Mora is one of the Esterhazy translators.
"Drastic and delicacy"
The German Academy of Language and Literature hailed the "eminent presence and living language art of Mora that unites idiom and everyday poetry, drasticity and tenderness". In her novels and stories, she focuses tirelessly on the loss of urban nomads and precarious lives and explores the abysses of strange inner and outer. "The award-winning translator and writer was born in Hungary and grew up bilingual.
Since 1990, she lives in Berlin. For her novel "Das Ungeheuer" – the second volume of a trilogy on the life of IT specialist Darius Kopp – she received the 2013 German Book Award.
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