502 authors took part in the Gautinger literary competition.
They sent in poems and songs under the motto “#We”.
At the celebration on Friday evening in the Bosco, five award winners, some of them via video, were honored.
The youngest was just eight years old and comes from Gauting.
Gauting - During the lockdown, 502 authors took part in the Gauting literary competition under the motto “#We”. At the celebration on Friday evening in the Bosco, five award winners, some of them via video, were honored. The youngest was just eight years old and comes from Gauting: Martha Trommer (8) impressed the seven-member jury with her short poem "We" and won in the children's category.
The seven-member jury, including the writer Gerd Holzheimer, had anonymously viewed and rated the 502 texts submitted on the subject of “#We”. Professional spokeswoman Katja Schild read the award-winning poem in the children's category: “Once upon a time there was a we. The we was yours because we argued. Why? I can not say that. One day it came back and said: Take back a bit. ”Martha Trommer from Gautingen summarized the misery of this pandemic in her poem“ Once upon a time we… ”, judge Werner Gruban praised the pupil's work. With applause, Martha, beaming with joy, took the stage to receive her certificate.
“The star is wrong”: The audience held their breath when Katja Schild read this exciting story about a taboo subject. A young woman “who sees no one other than herself” decides: “I will kill myself.” Another climbs in the elevator to the twelfth floor - she sees the lonely woman, her dress, her hair ... Instead of going into the abyss to jump, the young woman loosens her braid up "in the wind": "I took a deep breath ..." A moving, magical-lyrical text, according to laudator Andrea Pfannes. Sheeren Saida, the author, was connected via video. The native Syrian (21), high school graduate from Hamburg, speaks flawless German after five years in Germany and wants to study journalism. Werner Gruban congratulates the literary prizewinner in the “Youth” category.
“90 days” in Cuba, locked up with you in a home with crumbling walls, where the heat kills you, the air stands still: Marlies Pahlenberg describes her forced stay in minute detail. 100 days of quarantine in Cuba without internet had inspired her to write this text, the author revealed in her “picture puzzle of the lonely me and you”, which - maybe - will find a common we. Marlies Pahlenberg from Berlin, who "has been writing for a long time", as she said, received the third prize endowed with 250 euros for her text.
“Lockdown”: Katja Schild read the story of the nightmare of little Robin, who walks through the supermarket holding his mother's hand - and experiences “magical things”. For example the frozen “proud queen of the flies” who “sits enthroned” on her golden tin with the fiery hot goulash soup. Robin looks at "rigid, stiff" people like the dusty cashier, hears a female tape-tape voice: "Thank you for your visit." When looking for his mother, the child only encounters frozen lockdown people outside ... Robin a spider mother who spins her web around the seed on a maple leaf: Inside the cocoon, "yellow, soft eggs are tightly and tenderly nestled together, gently rocked by the spider mother". The scene conjures a "fearful smile" on the child's face.This successful text "immediately casts a spell over you", explains laudator Anna Fichert and reminds her of Kafka's "Metamorphosis". The author is connected via video from Ettlingen near Karlsruhe: Peter Friedrich, a scholarship holder of the German Association for Writers in Baden-Württemberg, won the second prize in the literary competition with his story “Lockdown”.
For the finale, Schild presented the anonymously submitted text “Cyclops” by the first prize winner: “Your shadow on the beach… Desperate conversations: I won't be there next year.
Let's count the cicadas ... How many stars do you count on the Milky Way? 'Asks the "walrus" at his side, "who no longer wants to fight ..." "Cyclops" is the rousing "kaleidoscope" story of saying goodbye to a loved one Bookseller Luitgard Kirchheim paid tribute to the poignantly composed text for people who can only be remembered.
The author is now well known: the poet Jennifer de Negri from Munich, winner of the literary competition.
“Carry on,” said Werner Gruban, encouraging the talented writer who is currently working on a novel.
Text: Christine Cless-Wesle
