Natascha Gangl wins Bachmann Prize 2025: A text against forgetting
Natascha Gangl wins Bachmann Prize 2025: A text against forgetting
Klagenfurt, Österreich - In Klagenfurt, the renowned Ingeborg Bachmann Prize was awarded on June 29, 2025. The Austrian author Natascha Gangl was able to prevail in a competition with 13 competitors. With her touching text "Da Sta" (the stone), she not only prevailed against strong competition, but also convinced the jury, consisting of well -known literary critics and lovers, as well as the audience.
The price, which is endowed with 25,000 euros, was presented during the 49th days of German -language literature. Mayor Christian Scheider and cultural officer Franz Petritz handed over the award to Gangl and appreciated their inspiring texts. Governor Peter Kaiser emphasized the importance of literature, especially in times of crisis, and described the competition as the "Champions League of Literature".
Topic of the winning text
Natascha Gangl's award-winning text deals with a Nazi crime that took place near the Slovenian border at the end of World War II. The jury praised the linguistic precision and the dense atmosphere of the text. Juror Brigitte Schwens-Harrant described "Da Sta" as "incredibly precise". In her work, Gangl addresses questions of remembering and forgetting about a memorial stone for shot Jews. The text is partly written in poem form and contains both dialect passages and nature observations.
The 39-year-old author, born in Bad Radkersburg in 1986 and now living in Vienna and Southeast Styria, has already gained a wide range of experiences in literary world. In addition to prose and essays, she also writes speech texts and works in the music, object and spoken theater. In addition, together with the band RDECA RAKTA, she developed a new listening piece format called "Klangcomic".
other awards
In addition to the main prize, Natascha Gangl also received the BKS Bank audience price of 7,000 euros, which further underlines its success that evening. Further awards this year went to Boris Schumatsky, who received the Deutschlandfunk Prize for a text about the impossibility of return to Moscow, Nora Osagiobar, who won the Kelag Prize, and Almut Tina Schmidt, who was awarded the 3sat prize for her story about women in unhappy relationships. Tara Meister, another talented author, received a festival writer's scholarship from the Carinthian summer.The event that brings collectors from German -speaking countries every year remains an important forum for literary talents. Gangl's success is another example of the relevance of contemporary literature and its ability to address important social issues.
For further details about these awards and the award ceremony, see the reports of 5min, Tagesschau and Tagesspiegel.
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