The Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis -- where German-writing authors read texts out loud and are judged on the spot, in a competition also broadcast live on TV -- was decided yesterday, and they announced that German-born (as Dirk Wesenberg), long-time Vienna resident Tex Rubinowitz took the prize, with his text, Wir waren niemals hier.
(In past years they've had great English language coverage, including posting translations of all the competing text, but money has become tight so it's all in German this year .....)
My familiarity with Rubinowitz's work is basically limited to his near-ubiquitous cartoons (see Google images for a representative selection); you might remember him from his turn twenty years ago as 'Guy on bridge' in Before Sunrise, starring opposite Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (far right):
![Ethan ! Julie ! Tex !]()
My familiarity with Rubinowitz's work is basically limited to his near-ubiquitous cartoons (see Google images for a representative selection); you might remember him from his turn twenty years ago as 'Guy on bridge' in Before Sunrise, starring opposite Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (far right):
