Georg-Strakl-Prize 2022: Erwin Einsinger receives award for a lyrical total work

Georg-Strakl-Prize 2022: Erwin Einsinger receives award for a lyrical total work

Erwin Einfinger receives Georg-Trinkl-Kl-Prize for Lyrik 2024

The Austrian prose, translator and visual artist Erwin Einsinger, will be awarded the renowned Georg Strakl Prize for poetry this year. The price is awarded for its impressive lyrical work and is endowed with 10,000 euros. Half of the award, the award is financed by the state of Salzburg and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Service and Sports.

Erwin Einsinger is part of a respected list of award winners, including well -known personalities such as Ernst Jandl, Friederike Mayröcker and Ilse Aichinger. The Georg Trail Prize is awarded in honor of the Salzburg poet Georg Trakl, who lived and worked from 1887 to 1914. Brigitta Falkner (2022) and Hans Eichhorn (2019) have been awarded the price in recent years.

The official awarding of the Georg-Strakl Prize for Poetry will take place in the Salzburg scene as part of the Cultural Award of the State of Salzburg. Deputy Governor Stefan Schnöll will hand over the award personally. Schnöll emphasizes that the Georg Trail Prize is one of the most important poetry prices in German-speaking countries and is looking forward to honoring Erwin Einsinger for his impressive work. Unsinger is not only known for his literary work, but also for his commitment in the domestic literary scene and its award -winning works such as the Rauris Literature Prize.

Art and Cultural State Secretary Andrea Mayer is also enthusiastic about the election of Erwin Einfinger for the Georg Trinkl Prize. It describes him as a "stroke of luck for literature" and recognizes his glamorous language art with which he enriches the German -speaking poetry landscape. Mayer emphasizes that one -finger creates a coherent portrait of the world with his linguistic fragments in its diversity and creates language images that are no longer added. She warmly congratulates him on this deserved award.

The jury praised Uninger for his extraordinary contribution to German -language literature, his masterful translation and his idiosyncrasy and excitement in his work. The jury members Maria Piok, Jürgen Thaler and Brigitte Schwens-Harrant were enthusiastic about Einsinger's unique style and his distinctive artistic expression.

The winner Erwin Einsinger was born in 1953 and lives and works in Micheldorf, Upper Austria. He studied Anglistics and German Studies in Salzburg and was part of the project-il literary group and editor of the magazine Salz. In addition to his work as a teacher, Einsinger has published numerous poetry books and prosabets, including his most recent work “A backpack full of crampons”, which was published in 2023. He has already been awarded the Rauriser Literature Prize (1984) and the Literature Prize of the Salzburg Economy (1996).

Source:
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