Author Jonas Lüscher Wins the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2025
The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, an annual award endowed with 30,000 euros, has been given to Jonas Lüscher for his novel "Enchanted Destiny." The city of Brunswick and Deutschlandfunk jointly sponsor this prestigious award.
The ceremony, which will be attended by Mayor Dr. Thorsten Kornblum and Director General of Deutschlandradio Stefan Raue, will take place at the Small House of the Brunswick State Theatre on Saturday, November 1. The presentation of the award will be broadcast live on radio and online by Deutschlandfunk Dokumente und Debatten at 4:30 PM.
"Enchanted Destiny" is a thought-provoking novel that provides a striking and compelling portrayal of the Corona pandemic. It delves deeper, questioning the possibilities and conditions of art and artists. The book is a dense, material-rich reflection through space and time about the relationship between humans and machines, a struggle with the irresolvable ambivalence between the blessings of technological progress and the knowledge of the life-hostile excesses of technical innovation.
The language of Jonas Lüscher becomes a unique aesthetics of resistance in "Enchanted Destiny," countering the possible withering of the vital in the corset of instrumental reason, the impending suffocation - whether by the first poison gas attack of the German army in World War I or by the collapse of the lungs during a Covid infection - with wide-swinging, musical periods in the text, creating a space of freedom.
The jury for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize includes Prof. Dr. h. c. Gerd Biegel, Dr. Hanna Engelmeier, Thomas Geiger, Samuel Hamen, Prof. Dr. Anja Hesse, David Hugendick, Dr. Michael Schmitt, Prof. Dr. Julia Schöll, and Dr. Wiebke Porombka as spokesperson. The jury's justification for awarding the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize 2025 to Jonas Lüscher's "Enchanted Destiny" is based on its exploration of the existential ambivalence experienced by the author due to his own proximity to death.
A recording of the ceremony will be available on Deutschlandfunk on November 29 at 8:05 PM. The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize aims to honour literary achievements in German narrative works, and the prize honours the literary achievements of the recipient up to the time of the award.
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