Ceremonial awarding of the 70th Bremen Literature Prize in the Bremen town hall

The Austrian author Teresa Präauer was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize on Monday, January 22nd for her work “Cooking in the Wrong Century”. Katharina Mevissen accepted the sponsorship award.

At the award ceremony in the Upper Town Hall, the jury praised Präauer's literary skills. “Teresa Präauer has mastered the literary craft, the work on form, the rhythmization of the text mass, the use of direct and indirect speech, the play with quotations, repetitions, variations. But all of this would remain dull and dull without the special cleverness or cleverness that this book ultimately teaches us about the entertaining effect of knowledge,” said jury member Dr. Daniela Strigl.

Katharina Mevissen accepted the sponsorship award for her novel “Mother's Voice Break”. In his laudatory speech, jury member Richard Kämmerlings described it approvingly: “In “Mother's Voice Break,” Katharina Mevissen tells of a late departure, of a woman's self-empowerment, who at first appears helpless to the treacherous objects of her small world, but then becomes an actor herself, a broadcaster and thus turns the entire, initially hostile world into a recipient. For this metamorphosis, the author finds the unusual image of a renewed voice break, an organic-acoustic transformation that unmistakably indicates presence to those around her.”

The Bremen Literature Prize is one of the most important prizes for German-language literature and is awarded by the Rudolf Alexander Schröder Foundation.

January 23, 2024