4 March 1968, Vienna Ministry of Schooling: Thomas Bernhard is awarded the Austrian national award for novels. His unconventional acceptance speech evokes the minister’s displeasure; in turn, Bernhard feels snubbed by the reaction and a newspaper runs the title: ‘This is how a national award laureate expresses his ‘thanks’: By berating Austria!’ This incident goes down in literary history as a national award scandal. But what really happened? Olaf Lahayne studied the sources and interviewed contemporary witnesses. His depiction gives a peek behind the scenes of the literary machine, and throws new light on the staging and manipulation strategies employed by Bernhard.
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Dr. Olaf Lahayne, Physiker, ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Technischen Universität Wien.
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