Dresdner Lyric Prize 2024
Readings Finale
Since 1996, the city of Dresden has awarded the German-Czech Dresden Poetry Prize every two years. It is awarded to poets who write in German or Czech, whose poems fulfil high artistic standards and who live in member states of the European Union. In an intensive professional exchange, the binational jury agreed on the finalists for the Dresden Poetry Prize 2024. Petr Borkovec, Kamil Bouška and Bohdan Chlíbec as well as Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, Georg Leß and Dana Ranga were nominated.
The high literary quality of the nominees’ work as well as the development and originality of their poetry were the main deciding factors in the assessment. The German-speaking jurors Nadja Küchenmeister, Katharina Schultens and Hans Thill wanted above all to generate ‘attention for the unseen, for works that stand in the shadows’. For the Czech jurors Wanda Heinrichová, Radek Malý and Pavel Novotný, ‘the contribution that the authors’ recitation or performance skills could make to the overall impression of the text on the audience’ and the “tonal/musical/melodic qualities of the text” also played an important role.
The final with the competition readings on 02.11. will take place in HELLERAU as part of the German-Czech Culture Days.
Duration: ca. 2 h 30 min., with an intermission
Language: German, Czech
Registration via ticket@hellerau.org or 0351/2646246
On 03.11. the festival award ceremony will take place in HELLERAU with a literary-musical concert with the Dresden percussionist Günter Baby Sommer and the Czech musician Anna Fliegerová.
