{"id":45558,"date":"2026-07-03T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&p=45558"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:12:30","slug":"solitude-alumna-kinga-toth-received-the-kelag-prize-as-part-of-the-2026-ingeborg-bachmann-prize","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/solitude-alumna-kinga-toth-received-the-kelag-prize-as-part-of-the-2026-ingeborg-bachmann-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude alumna Kinga T\u00f3th received the KELAG Prize as part of the 2026 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-45558","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Congratulations to Solitude alumna Kinga T\u00f3th on being awarded the KELAG Prize, which is presented each year as part of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.<\/span>\r\n

Kinga T\u00f3th<\/a>, born in 1983 in S\u00e1rv\u00e1r, Hungary, is a writer, visual artist, sound poet, performer, linguist, and translator. She writes in Hungarian, German, and English, and presents her work through performances, exhibitions, international installations, and at festivals. In 2013, she was awarded a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude as part of the Eastern European Network Exchange Program (now the Solitude Exchange Network). In 2014, Edition Solitude published T\u00f3th\u2019s poetry collection Allmaschine<\/i><\/span>. It is available through bookstores or directly from the Akademie Schloss Solitude (ISBN 978-3-937158-80-8).<\/p>\r\n

Her current text, OstblockM\u00e4dl<\/i><\/span> (Eastern Bloc Girl<\/i><\/span>), tells the story of Hungarian women and the poor treatment they experience while working in Austria \u2013 whether in the fields or in inns, at the hands of farmers as well as guests. It portrays women living and working across borders \u2013 not only between countries, but also between two different worlds.<\/p>\r\n

The jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize was deeply impressed by the text\u2019s intricate weaving together of the familiar and the unfamiliar, by the striking imagery created through T\u00f3th\u2019s language, and by her distinctive, almost musical delivery. The work also resonated on a political level: in a poetic way, it captures the tensions between Eastern and Western Europe during the 1980s and 1990s. Through her innovative use of language, Kinga T\u00f3th succeeds in bringing historical experiences into the present.<\/p>\r\n

Brigitte Schwens-Harrant, who invited Kinga T\u00f3th to participate in the competition, is convinced: \u00bbAnyone who has heard or read her voice once will never forget it.\u00ab<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nHer text OstblockM\u00e4dl<\/em> can be read here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nYou can find further information here: https:\/\/bachmannpreis.orf.at\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\n "}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=45558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}