With her text “Der Cousin” she prevailed against the German Dana Vowinckel in the jump-off.
After the main prize, endowed with 25,000 euros and named after the Klagenfurt-born author Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), the other three jury prizes will now be awarded. Candidates for this are Vowinckel (“Waters in Ziplock”) and Timon Karl Kaleyta (“My friend at the lake”), Necati Öziri (“Tomorrow I wake up and then life begins”), Anna Prizkau (“Women in the sanatorium”) , Leander Steinkopf (“Ein Fest am See”) and Julia Weber (“Ruth”) from Switzerland, all of whom were also shortlisted. In addition, there is an audience award determined by Internet voting.
As in the previous year, the event could not be held under normal conditions. Nine female and five male authors presented their texts, whose readings had been pre-recorded, at the literary competition of a seven-member jury in the ORF theater in Klagenfurt under the chairmanship of Insa Wilke for the first time. No live audience was allowed. Last year, the Bachmann Prize went to the German author Helga Schubert.
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