Verena Stauffer conquers the ORF best list with Kiki Beach!

Verena Stauffer conquers the ORF best list with Kiki Beach!

Wien, Österreich - Verena Stauffer, an emerging poet from Upper Austria, has reached the top of the ORF-Bücher best list for June with her poetry band" Kiki Beach ". The volume treats the topic of love in all its facets and links this with an experimental content that commutes between Greek mythology and the modern digital world. Stauffer currently lives in Vienna and will take part in the renowned Bachmann Prize at the end of June 2025.

The 49th days of German -language literature take place from June 25th to 29th and Stauffer is one of the 14 participants. She is looking forward to the upcoming experience, but has emphasized that she does not want to read her poems in Klagenfurt. Her new text for the competition impressed juror Klaus Kastberger after he emerged from a simple sentence of a story told. This is not her first time at the Bachmann Prize: in 2018 she already submitted a contribution, but was unsuccessful.

content and style of "Kiki Beach"

The volume of poems "Kiki Beach" is divided into seven chapters - a number that is traditionally associated with love. Stauffer uses a sometimes relaxed sound and combines myths with fantastic worlds and digital rooms. The prologue opens with a pyrotechnic spectacle and stimulates reflection across the boundaries between civilized and animal. This love of literature also becomes clear in the many literary allusions and references to well -known authors such as Dylan Thomas and Oscar Wilde. At the end of the volume, Stauffer presents a list of "writers", including Yi Lei and Bianca Stone, who contributed to their creative process.

A central topic is the complexity of love and grief, which is strongly present in their poems. Personal experiences flow as well as the influences from your childhood in the Kalcalpen National Park. The volume of poems also addresses the tension between reality and virtuality and illuminates the relationship between natural poem and love poem, where

literature prices and their meaning

Stauffer is not only a talented poet, but also part of a greater literary context that focuses on the importance of literary prices. A DFG project examines the functions and effects of literary prices in German-speaking countries since 1990. The aim is to analyze the effects of these prices on literature and cultural business. Prices contribute to the diversification of the literary field and can open up new market segments. This could reorganize the hierarchies of genres and works and promote the nobility of new voices in the literature.

Stauffer not only sees an artistic form of expression in her poetry, but also a political voice. In their opinion, poetry serves as a source of consolation and protection. Your work reflects both personal and social issues and offer complex perspectives that stimulate the audience for reflection.