Day 1: Findeis and Orths are the early favourites
After the first reading day, Patrick Findeis’ “No beautiful Land” and Markus Orths’ “Hotel Cleaner” emerged as two favourites in the running for the Bachmann Prize.
After the first reading day, Patrick Findeis’ “No beautiful Land” and Markus Orths’ “Hotel Cleaner” emerged as two favourites in the running for the Bachmann Prize. Clemens J. Setz can also stake a claim to the prize.
High esteem for “No beautiful Land”
The last but one text of this Friday afternoon was received exceptionally well by the jury. Ursula März expressed “her esteem" for Patrick Findeis, and for Andre Vladimir Heiz the author is “a real discovery”. “Top-class, trendy, a real achievement”, concluded the other jury members.
A brilliant and weird Hotel Cleaner
The day was brought to a close with Markus Orths text The jury members, however, had praise in reserves for "The Hotel Cleaner" – and none of them could find anything else negative to say. The general conclusion was that it is a text with “great perspectives” and “brilliantly” narrated.
The discussions of the first day in more detail
In the morning Clemens Setz’ test “The Scales” received unanimous praise. The texts by Alina Bronsky and Angelika Reitzer were received as mediocre, Thorsten Palzhoff’s text, however, received little praise from the jury.
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