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Dresden (dpa / sn) - The writer Ingo Schulze receives the Dresden Art Prize 2021. According to the announcement on Monday, the jury praised him as a "seismograph of recent German history and present."
He has been grappling with his homeland for three decades.
“It is lucky to be wanted where you come from,” said the 58-year-old, delighted with the 7,000 euro award.
Among the previous winners, he found quite a few “who are important to my life and my work”.
Only recently Schulze was chosen as this year's winner of the Prize of Literature Houses.
Two prizes, each endowed with 5000 euros, were given to the sculptor Susan Donath and the trio “Zur Schönen Aussicht”.
The jury praised the work of Donath, who comes from Apolda (Thuringia), with their works "shake up, they move".
The trio, founded in 2009, won over her with post-contemporary jazz beats, its “completely new sound language” and “high artistic musical performance full of passion and imagination”.
The Art and Promotion Prize of the City of Dresden has been awarded annually since 1993.
After Volker Braun, Thomas Rosenlöcher and Marcel Beyer, Schulz is the fourth author among those chosen so far.
This time a total of 64 suggestions were received.
The award ceremony is scheduled for October 3rd.
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Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962, studied philology in Jena and initially worked as a dramaturge and newspaper editor.
His first book was published in 1995.
His most recent novel “The Righteous Murderers” (2020) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
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