Vienna (OTS) – The City of Vienna’s renowned poetry prize is endowed with 10,000 euros. The award ceremony will take place on September 10, 2024. Margret Kreidl was recommended by an independent jury of experts, who justified their decision as follows:
“Margret Kreidl is in every respect a unique phenomenon in contemporary Austrian literature, on the one hand through her versatility, and on the other through her inexhaustible linguistic cosmos, which defies all clear attributions. The author of prose, theater texts and radio plays has repeatedly crossed the boundaries to related art forms and has been just as successful with text installations, exhibitions and performances as with her publications. One constant in her literary work, however, is poetry, which has been reflected in six book publications to date. Margret Kreidl’s poetry is always an offer of dialogue with others, with art and the media. In dealing with social conditions and all the crises of our time, she manages to draw a line pointedly, wittily and concretely from small, everyday occurrences to political questions. Kreidl’s poems cannot be put into poetic categories; she moves with joy and confidence between free verse, rhymes, lists and line breaks. Play and rules are not contradictory to her. Effortlessly and eloquently, she creates wonderful texts from this antagonism that are sometimes disturbing, thought-provoking, and can also make you laugh again and again. Margret Kreidl’s lyrical work is proof of how contemporary this art form can be. She manages to take readers along and inspire them to face the problems of the time with imagination and a sharp mind.”
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna’s City Councillor for Culture and Science:
“HC Artmann was a poet, translator, storyteller – an artist who researched the German language and its orthography, its dialect and inspired his audience in the process. I am delighted that the awarding of the HC Artmann Prize is an opportunity to commemorate this extraordinary language artist and, at the same time, to honor Margret Kreidl: a writer who is able to move fluidly between literary genres in her work and link them together; an artist who is interdisciplinary and also works in other art formats. Margret Kreidl is receiving this year’s HC Artmann Prize from the City of Vienna for her poetic work. Congratulations to the winner!”
The award winner
Margret Kreidl was born in Salzburg and lives as a freelance writer in Vienna. Since 1990, her plays have been performed at home and abroad, most recently in Hebrew translation: Grateful Women, Tel Aviv 2022. She has written numerous radio plays for the ORF, and her books have been published regularly since 1995. She was a writer in residence in Germany, Serbia and Switzerland and a visiting professor in the USA.
Margret Kreidl has received numerous prizes and scholarships for her work, including the Elias Canetti Scholarship of the City of Vienna in 2016-2017, the Robert Musil Scholarship in 2017, the Outstanding Artist Award for Literature of the Federal Chancellery in 2018 and the City of Vienna Prize for Literature in 2021.
The price
The HC Artmann Prize was established in 2004 by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna in honor of the Viennese poet HC Artmann, who died in 2000. It is aimed at authors living in Vienna who have written outstanding works in the field of poetry and is awarded every two years. With an endowment of 10,000 euros, the prize is the City of Vienna’s highest award in the field of poetry. Previous winners include Julian Schutting (2022), Gerhard Ruiss (2020) and Elfriede Czurda (2014). This year’s regularly changing jury consisted of Andreas Brandtner, Jürgen Thaler and Annemarie Türk.
Inquiries & Contact:
Isabella Ceri
Mediensprecherin StRin Mag.a Veronica Kaup-Hasler
Telephone: +43 1 4000-81169
E-Mail: isabella.ceri@wien.gv.at
Marina Ninic
Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5, 1080 Vienna
Telephone: +43 1 4000-84714
E-Mail: marina.ninic@wien.gv.at
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