Stefanie Sargnagel receives the 2025 literary promotion prize in Kassel!

Stefanie Sargnagel receives the 2025 literary promotion prize in Kassel!

Kassel, Deutschland - Stefanie Sargnagel, the talented author from Vienna, was awarded the funding award for comic literature in 2025. The price endowed with 3,000 euros is awarded annually to new authors who are characterized by strange and artistically impressive works. This renowned honor was made by Kassel's mayor Dr. Sven Schoeller announced and is to be awarded on March 29, 2025 in the Kassel town hall, together with the Kassel literary award for grotesque humor, which goes to Nora Gomringer. As seknews.de , the prize was awarded to Sargnagel this year, at the suggestion of the publisher Rowohlt, the jury was impressed by its extraordinary funny talent.

Stefanie Sargnagel, born in 1986, made a name for herself as a freelance author and regularly publishes texts and cartoons in well -known magazines such as the Standard and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her latest novel "Iowa" came out in December 2023 and impressively shows her ability to process bizarre reality literarily. The jury praised its ability to present the absurdities of life with "political clarity" and "literary precision" and to convey a lesson in human -friendlyness that causes a smile even in the most absurd situations, as well as boersenblatt.net emphasized.

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The jury emphasized Sargnagel's undisguised view of reality, where it often discovers the abyss next to the banality. Her works, including "Iowa. A trip to America" and "tight", combine autofictional elements with humorous representations of life. Her experiences as a Klagenfurt city clerk and her journalistic work, including a recently published report on a Sea Watch team on Lampedusa, enrich their writer's work significantly. The funding award for comic literature, regularly awarded since 2004, is a sign of Sargnagel's influence and its promising future in the literary scene.