The German-Hungarian writer Terézia Mora has received the prize money of 50,000 euros, Georg-Büchner-prize. He is considered the most important literary award in Germany.
In her acceptance speech, criticized Mora on Saturday in Darmstadt, Germany, a change in the debate of culture: In the past three months, have radicalized the public and the private speech in a direction that “the concerned us right to … be,” said the 47-Year-old in the state theatre.
“I used to be able to say: Hetzer, racist Talk will not take place in Germany, at least at the government level. I can’t,” she said in her letter to a friend written speech. “The fish stinks from the head, but – make no mistake about it – everywhere, elsewhere.” At the end of it, “what are you doing or not doing”.
Mora also pointed to the Hungarian writer Peter Esterházy (1950-2016), “against the, in addition to Other as a “left-liberal” verschrienen artists and against any Form of intellectuality, the time of a campaign in Hungary.” Mora is one of the Translators Esterházy.
The German Academy for language and literature praised Moras “eminent presence and vivid language art, the everyday idiom and poetry, Rhythms and delicacy” clubs. In the Büchner-prize-certificate, it says: “Ruthlessly in her novels and short stories the loneliness of the big city nomads and precarious existences in the view and explores the depths of inner and outer strangeness.”
The award-winning writer and Translator, was born in Hungary and grew up bilingual. Since 1990, she lives in Berlin. For her novel “The monster” – Redwin the second volume of a trilogy about the life of IT-specialists, Darius Kopp – prize 2013 of the German book.
Mora, the Austrian author, Journalist and Translator Martin Pollack with John was excellent-Heinrich-Merck prize for literary criticism and Essays. The 74-Year-old claimed in his policy speech of thanks in the face of the influent to the right and parties of the extreme right in Europe: “For democracy, we must fight every day.” And: “We must do everything to the civil society to upgrade and strengthen.”
The art historian and journalist Wolfgang Kemp (72) was awarded the Sigmund Freud prize for scientific prose. Both awards are endowed with 20,000 euros.
The German Academy for language and seal in Darmstadt, Germany, awards
the Büchner prize in 1951 to the writer, the writing in German
language. The award winners include Max Frisch (1958) and Günter Grass (1965) and, more recently, Jürgen Becker (2014), Rainald Goetz (2015), Marcel Beyer (2016) and in the last year of the poet Jan Wagner.
The prize money comes from the Federal government, the state of Hesse and city of Darmstadt. The namesake of the dramatist and revolutionary Georg Büchner (“Woyzeck”). He was born in 1813 in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and died 1837 in Zurich.
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