2023-10-09 10:12:26
Vienna (OTS) – Matinee and awards ceremony in front of a large audience in the RadioKulturhaus with actress Gerti Drassl, saxophonist Edgar Unterkirchner, cellist Julia Hofer and harpist Hannah Senfter – with photo gallery
The program for the matinee on October 8, 2023 on the occasion of the awarding of this year’s Christine Lavant Prize was once once more top-class: the great Gerti Drassl read from previously unpublished love letters between Lavant and Werner Berg, as well as from the touching story “The Changeling”. The texts were musically embedded by Edgar Unterkirchner, whose saxophone sometimes seems like a human voice, by the internationally celebrated bassist and cellist Julia Hofer, and by Hannah Senfter, the solo harpist in the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra.
It was directed by Julian Pölsler and moderated by Martin Traxl.
Two ORF film contributions – excerpts from the new Lavant feature documentary “How punctual despair is” by Danielle Proskar – and a short film portrait of the award winner by Sandra Ölz ideally complemented the reading and music.
Klemens Renoldner, Chairman of the Literary Advisory Board, who gave the laudatory speech for Yevgeniy Breyger, on the new Lavant Prize winner:
“Breyger’s poems are masterful in terms of dynamics and rhythm, vocabulary and imagery. He loves and masters playing with different poem models. In his first book of poems, “Ffugige Monde”, 2016, an exuberant, shimmering cosmos, a poetic universe, opens up to the reader, in which stars like meteors, a house, a room, the view from the window, the light in the evening and in the morning, animals and trees have their place. In the middle of it we recognize the proud poet, who explores the world in amazement, and his place for poetry and truth.
In 2023 the volume “Peace without War” was published, which refers to the war in Ukraine. The book begins with a fast-paced account of his own family history, in the staccato jargon of a teenager. It reports on the invasion and crimes of German soldiers in Ukraine, in World War II, the Shoah, the escape, it contains a tirade regarding murders and atrocities then and now, the humiliating circumstances of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, and it culminates in of anger at those who understand Putin and carries a passionate polemic once morest all those talk shows regarding the war in which Ukrainians are given good advice.
We are very pleased that Yevgeniy Breyger will be awarded the Christine Lavant Prize of the Year 2023 today for his work, for his stubbornness and mastery.”
Read the laudation by Klemens Renoldner and the acceptance speech by Yevgeniy Breyger on our website soon: www.christine-lavant.com
Zu Yevgeniy Breyger
Born in 1989 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
In 2016 his debut volume “fugitive moons” was published by kookbooks. In 2019 he won the Leonce and Lena Prize from the city of Darmstadt. His second volume of poetry “Stollen Air” was published by kookbooks in 2020. He won the Munich Poetry Prize 2021 and received a scholarship from the German Academy of Rome, Villa Massimo – Casa Baldi in 2022, as well as the manuscript prize of the State of Styria and the Mondsee Poetry Prize in 2023. Since 2021, guest lecturers for literary writing and translation at the University of Hildesheim, at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the German Literature Institute Leipzig. His latest volume of poetry “Peace without War” was published by kookbooks in spring 2023.
Media reports on ORF
The RadioKulturhaus showed the matinee in live streaming.
ORF2 will broadcast a portrait of Lavant Prize winner Yevgeniy Breyger on Culture Monday on October 9th.
ORFIII will be presenting a Culture Today special on October 9th at 7:45 p.m. with excerpts from the live stream and interviews with the award winner and the artists.
Further information regarding the International Christine Lavant Society can be found on our website: www.christine-lavant.com
The photos of the matinee and award ceremony can be found in the APA-Fotogalerie.
Questions & Contact:
Prof. Dr. Klemens Renoldner
Chairman of the Literary Advisory Board
Email: klemens.renoldner@plus.ac.at
Dr. Hans Gasser
President of the International Christine Lavant Society
Email: hans.gasser@christine-lavant.com
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