Dhe author and translator Anne Weber (“Luft und Liebe”) becomes the new city clerk of Bergen-Enkheim and receives, in addition to the right to live, a prize money of 20,000 euros. The jury’s reasoning states: “Anne Weber’s texts are profound and existential games with reality, they bring movement to what is apparently fixed, securitized or past.” According to the Bergen-Enkheim cultural society, Weber is the 47th incumbent and solves the author Anja Kampmann
The jury highlighted Weber’s research on her great-grandfather, “Ancestors,” and her book “Annette, a heroine epic”. Known previous incumbents were about Herta Müller and Peter Härtling. The literary prize is to be awarded on August 30th.
Born in Offenbach
Bergen-Enkheim is a district of Frankfurt. Weber was born in Offenbach in 1964. According to her publisher Matthes & Seitz, she has lived in Paris since 1983 and has translated from German into French and vice versa.
In the Frankfurt district, the symbolic office was awarded for the first time in 1974, said the cultural society. Since then, numerous German cities have taken it up.
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