2023-12-14 20:30:00
“Man and machine” – that is both the motto of this year’s Klosterneuburg Literature Prize and an apt description of its engine, Ulrike Schark, jokes Hemma Poledna, director of the Klosterneuburg High School, at the beginning of the evening.
The award ceremony was then an evening dedicated to literature, because “literature is worth an evening”: Ulrike Schark presents the individual stories of the award winners who have thought regarding this year’s theme “Man and Machine” and put them into have packed lighter and darker stories.
For four years now, the youth literature prize has continued what the “Young Poets” prize began – and the high participation from the two Klosterneuburg high schools and the Klosterneuburg middle school shows that literature cannot yet be “pronounced dead”. Because, among other things, the creativity it imparts also helps natural scientists and technicians – as City Councilor for Education Maria Theresia Eder confirmed in an interview with Hemma Poledna.
“In literature, in the stories that we are told, it is possible for us to slip into the shoes of the protagonists and from this position to look at the world from different perspectives,” emphasizes keynote speaker Renata Schmidtkunz, cultural journalist and known for, among other things Her Ö1 series “In Conversation” shows how much literary reading trains our ability to empathize and empathize.
And because literature also involves listening, all of the texts selected by the jury were then read by the jury members and the directors of the schools involved.
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