Bremen Literature Prize goes to Marion Poschmann
The 67th Bremen Literature Prize 2021 goes to Marion Poschmann, the sponsorship award goes to Jana Volkmann
Marion Poschmann will receive the Bremen Literature Prize 2021, worth €25,000, for her volume of poetry “Nimbus” published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
The jury's statement reads:
“With great awareness of form, the volume of poetry Nimbus transfers the tradition of nature poetry into the age of climate change and species extinction. Her poems bring together childhood memories, precise observation of the present and historical knowledge to create images of nature that captivate with their wealth of details.”
Marion Poschmann, born in Essen in 1969, studied German and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. She studied dramatic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. Today Marion Poschmann lives in Berlin. In 2018 she was awarded the Klopstock Prize for her novel The Pine Islands (2017), which was also on the shortlists for both the German Book Prize 2017 and the English version (The Pine Islands) for the Man Booker Prize 2019.
The funding award for the Bremen Literature Prize is endowed with €6,000. In 2021 it will be awarded to the author Jana Volkmann for her novel “Auwald”, published by Verbrecher Verlag. The funding award has been financed by ÖVB – Public Insurance Bremen – since 2005.
The jury justified the award:
“The novel Auwald demonstrates her impressive talent for dense perceptual prose and she transforms a catastrophic event into the opportunity to face a private crisis in an original way.”
Jana Volkmann, born in Kassel in 1983, studied European literatures in Berlin and is currently working on a dissertation about hotels in contemporary literature. She lives as a freelance author and journalist in Vienna.
The jury for the Bremen Literature Prize 2021 met under the chairmanship of Dr. Lothar Müller (Süddeutsche Zeitung) with the members: Richard Kämmerlings (Die Welt), Barbara Lison (Bremen Literature Prize Foundation), Dr. Wiebke Porombka (Deutschlandradio Kultur), Michael Sieber (Bremen Literature Prize Foundation), Tonio Schachinger (2020 sponsorship award winner, Austria), Dr. Daniela Strigl (Austria), Dr. Stefan Doubt (Switzerland).
Award ceremony:
It is planned to award the prizes on January 18, 2021 at 12 p.m. in the Bremen town hall. On the evening before the award ceremony, a moderated reading by the two award winners will take place at 6 p.m. in the Glocke. The Bremen Literature Prize is one of the oldest and most important literary prizes in the Federal Republic. It was first awarded in 1954. In addition, a sponsorship award has been awarded since 1977, which has been financed by ÖVB - Public Insurance Bremen since 2005. Visit our homepage: www.rudolf-alexander-schroeder-stiftung.de