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Priceworks and winners with english texts

for Olaf Nicolai

Jury praises "In the woods there is a bird..."

The support grant was not awarded this year.

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for Christina Kubisch, Peter Kutin und Florian Kindlinger

Jury praises radio play "Desert Bloom"

Support grant for "Engel der Erinnerung" by Marco Blaauw

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for Gerhard Rühm

Jury praises radio play “Hugo Wolf und drei Grazien, letzter Akt”

The composer, writer and artist Gerhard Rühm has been awarded with the Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art 2015. The prize is donated by Südwestrundfunk (SWR). Gerhard Rühm receives the prize for his radio piece “Hugo Wolf und drei Grazien, letzter Akt”. The award carries prize money of 12,500 euros. The prize-winning work, a co-production of WDR and hr, was broadcasted for the first time on February 13, 2015 on WDR. This year's Karl Sczuka support grant of 5,000 euros has been awarded to Dagmara Kraus and Marc Matter for “Entstehung dunkel”. This production of WDR and SWR was broadcasted for the first time on November 14, 2014 on WDR.

The internationally respected Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded each year to the “best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance”. This year, 71 competition entries from 118 entrants in 20 countries were submitted. The prize winners were selected on Thursday, 23 July in Baden-Baden by an independent jury chaired by the former minister of state for culture, Christina Weiss. The other jury members were Margarete Zander, Helmut Oehring, Marcel Beyer and Michael Grote.

In its judgement, the jury wrote:

The public award ceremony was held on 18 October as part of the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2015.

for Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Jury praises radio play “Circulating over Square Waters (ZKM Kubus)” / Support grant for No Input Ensemble & 2xC

The composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff has been awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize 2014 for works of radio art. The prize is endowed by Südwestrundfunk (SWR). He receives the prize for his radio piece “Circulating over Square Waters”. The award carries prize money of 12,500 euros. The prize-winning work, an SWR production together with the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe, was broadcast on 4 February 2014 on SWR2. This year's Karl Sczuka support grant to the sum of 5,000 euros has been awarded to the Karlsruhe group No Input Ensemble for their own production of “Fieber. Kommentarwerk zum Gebirgskriegsprojekt” which has not so far been broadcast.

The internationally respected Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded each year to the “best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance”. This year, 89 competition entries from 134 entrants in 20 countries were submitted. The prize winners were selected on Thursday, 24 July in Baden-Baden by an independent jury chaired by the former minister of state for culture, Christina Weiss. The other jury members were Margarete Zander, Helmut Oehring, Marcel Beyer and Michael Grote. The public award ceremony was held on 19 October as part of the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2014.

In its judgement, the jury wrote: “The Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff uses minimalist methods to enter into a musical dialogue with the materiality of spaces and their sound characteristics. His set of instruments consists of twelve sine wave generators and two loudspeakers. They are used to trigger the natural vibrations of the space which are then made audible in a continuous crescendo. In “Circulating over Square Waters (ZKM Kubus)”, Carl Michael von Hausswolff uses the existing space like an instrument with unswerving rigour and raises the intensity of the sounds with great sensitivity and artistic assurance. In this radiophonic production, imaginary sound spaces are thus created from the sound waves along the time axis into which listeners can immerse themselves in a similar way to observing a monochrome picture.”

for Oswald Egger and Iris Drögekamp

Jury praises the radio play Linz and Lunz / Support grant for Rafael Nassif

The author Oswald Egger and the director Iris Drögekamp have been awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize 2013 for radio drama as radio art endowed by Südwestrundfunk (SWR). They win the award for their joint radio play Linz and Lunz. The prize-winning work, a Südwestrundfunk production, was broadcast on 7 March 2013. The award carries prize money of 12,500 euros. They have already won the Karl Sczuka Prize previously in 2010.

This year's Karl Sczuka support grant of 5,000 euros was awarded to the Brazilian composer Rafael Nassif for his own production plant_instead of_incanto. The internationally respected Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded each year to the “best production of a radio work using musical materials and structures in acoustic forms of performance”. This year, 68 competition entries from competitors in 18 countries were submitted. The public award ceremony will be held on 20 October as part of the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2013.

The prize winners were selected on Thursday, 18 July in Baden-Baden by an independent jury chaired by the former minister of state for culture Christina Weiss. In its judgement the jury writes: "With his radio piece Linz und Lunz, Oswald Egger succeeds in creating a polyphonic hommage to the poet Jakob Michael Reinhard Lenz. In doing so, Egger enters the sphere of the language and life of Lenz who grew up as a German-speaker in Livonia at the time of Goethe. Egger investigates the sound space of the extinct Livonian language and interlaces it with his own poetic speech.

The director Iris Drögekamp orchestrates the polyphony of the text into a musical space consisting of words. Three speakers and three vocal artists (mouth workers) create a polyphonic soundscape. This radio piece opens a surprising imaginative space for the listener consisting of linguistic sensuality and the power of words against the impositions of life. Iris Drögekamp and Oswald Egger explore new paths of acoustic art for radio."

Karl Sczuka Prize for Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians
Jury praises radio piece Bodybuiding / Support grant for Jan Jelinek / To be broadcast on SWR2 on 21 October and 6 November

Baden-Baden – The Berlin artists and musicians Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians have won the Karl Sczuka Price 2012. The prize is endowed by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) for works of radio art. They receive the award for their joint radio piece Bodybuilding. The prize-winning work, a Deutschlandradio Kultur production, was broadcast on 17 June 2011. The award carries prize money of 12,500 euros.

This year’s Karl Sczuka support grant of 5,000 euros was awarded to Jan Jelinek for his studio production "Kennen Sie Otahiti?" A live version of the piece was first broadcast on 17 January 2012 on SWR2.

The internationally respected Karl Sczuka Prize is awarded each year to the “best production of a radio work using musical materials and structures in acoustic forms of performance”. This year 69 competition entries from 16 countries were received. The public award ceremony will be held on 21 October as part of the Donaueschingen Music Festival 2012.

The prize winners were selected on Thursday, 26 July in Baden-Baden by an independent jury chaired by the former minister of state for culture Christina Weiss. In its judgement the jury writes: “What starts as the soundscape of a walk in Rio de Janeiro is transformed into a studio workshop discussion in which the two artists analyse and recompose the material which has just been heard. Sounds and noises increasingly disappear behind stage directions and commentaries from the authors, whereupon in a further striking twist a moderator gives a detailed audiovisual description of the soundscape. His crazy digressions evoke a theatre of sound in the imagination of the listener. The jury was thrilled by the ironic, virtuoso handling of the soundscape form as a travelogue, with radiophonics and radio formats.”

Wolfgang Müller wins Karl Sczuka Prize 2009

The author Wolfgang Müller has been awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize 2009 for works of radio art endowed by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR). He receives the award for his radio piece "Séance Vocibus Avium" which was first broadcast on 3 August 2008 in a Bavarian Radio production. The award carries a prize of 12,500 euros. This year’s Karl Sczuka Support Grant of 5,000 euros was not awarded. The Karl Sczuka Prize is recognised internationally as an important prize for advanced works of radio art. It is awarded annually for the "best production of a work of radio art using musical material and structures in an acoustic performance". A total of 88 entries from 16 countries were submitted, including 40 independent own productions. The public award ceremony will be held on 17 October as part of the Donaueschingen Festival 2009.

Thomas Meinecke and David Moufang win Karl Sczuka Prize 2008
Support grant for Anja Utler

The author Thomas Meinecke and the musician David Moufang have been awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize 2008 for works of radio art, endowed by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR). They receive the award for the joint radio piece Übersetzungen / Translations which was first broadcast on 19 October 2007 in a Bavarian Radio production. The award carries a prize of 12,500 euros. This year’s Karl Sczuka support grant of 5,000 euros goes to lyric poet Anja Utler who lives in Vienna and who realised her text suchrufen, taub for ORF Kunstradio as a multi-channel 5.1 production which was broadcast on 8 Juli 2007 on Ö1.

The Italian musician, author and director Stefano Giannotti has been awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize 2007 for works of radio art, endowed by the Südwestrundfunk. Giannotti receives the award for his own production of “Geologica”. The just under 49-minute-long stereo production, subtitled “All the truth about the origin of the universe” and described by the author as an “acoustic folly”, was created between January and June 2007 in Giannotti’s studio in Lucca and has not so far been broadcast. It will be first broadcast on 3 August on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Stefano Giannotti previously received the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2002 for his own production of “Il tempo cambia”.

This year’s Karl Sczuka Support Grant of 5,000 euros has been awarded to the sound artist Bernadette Johnson, born in St. Gallen in 1955, for her just under 21-minute-long own production of “3 akustische Gedichte”, parts of which were first broadcast on Radio France on 19 March 2007. The public award ceremony for the Karl Sczuka Prize 2007 will take place on 20 October at 09.30 as part of the Donaueschingen Festival. The laudation for Stefano Giannotti will be given by the media critic Frank Kaspar.

The Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art 2006 goes to the sound artist Asmus Tietchens. Tietchens, born in Hamburg in 1947, receives the award which is endowed with a prize of 12 500 euros for his sound composition "Trois Dryades" which was first broadcast on 25 March 2006 by the WDR (Studio Akustische Kunst). The Karl Sczuka support grant was not awarded this year. The award ceremony will take place on 21 October as part of the Donaueschingen Festival. The winning work with excerpts from the award ceremony will be broadcast on 26 October at 21.03 on SWR2. Asmus Tietchens previously won the Karl Sczuka Prize in 2003 for his sound composition "Sechs Heidelberger Studien" ("Six Heidelberg Studies").

This year's Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art, awarded by the SWR and endowed with a prize of EUR 12,500, goes to the Swedish sound artist Hanna Hartman for her production "Att fälla grova träd är förknippat med risker" ("The felling of tall trees entails danger"). Hanna Hartman was born in Uppsala in 1961 and now lives in Berlin. The piece was commissioned by 'Rikskonserter' and EMS (Electro Acoustic Music), and was first performed at Fylkingen in Stockholm and broadcast by Sveriges Radio (SR) on 8 December 2004.

This year´s Karl-Sczuka-Prize for works of radio art, awarded by the SWR and endowed with EUR 12.500,- goes to the Australian composer, violinist and performance artist Jon Rose, born in 1951 in Rochester (UK) and now living in Sydney, for his production "Skeleton in the Museum", which is based on recordings and sound documents at the Grainger Museum in Melbourne. The piece was one of the last commissioned by ‘The Listening Room´, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and was first broadcast on ABC Classic FM on 13th October, 2003.The poet and writer Oswald Egger, born in Lana (Italy) in 1963, receives the Karl-Sczuka-Support-Grant of EUR 5.000,- for his production ‘tuning, stumm", which was made for the ORF Kunstradio in Vienna and was first broadcast on 18th July 2004. The awarding ceremony will take place on 16th October at the Donaueschingen Festival. Jury member Frank Kaspar is going to make the eulogy.

The Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art 2003 goes to the sound artist Asmus Tietchens, born in 1947 in Hamburg, for his WDR-production "Sechs Heidelberger Studien", which is based on the sounds of the bookprinting machine called 'Heidelberger Tiegel'. The independent jury has decided not to award the Karl-Sczuka-Support-Grant for this year.

The Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art 2002 went to the Italian composer Stefano Giannotti, born in 1963 in Lucca, for his independent production "Il tempo cambia": 32 miniature sound units based on the Chinese book of transformations, the "I Ging". The sound-artist and composer of film music Andreas Bick, born in Marl, Germany, in 1964, received the Karl Sczuka Support Grant for his production "Windscapes".

The annual Karl Sczuka Prize for works of radio art went to Friederike Mayröcker for "Das Couvert der Vögel" (The envelope of the birds). This poetic piece of radio art is inspired by the works of the painter Henri Matisse. The Bulgarian composer Blagomir Alexiev, born in 1954, received the Karl Sczuka Support Grant for his production "In the End of the Road".