- Title: 422 AT Jancar literature award
- Date: 2nd August 2020
- Description:Slovenian writer Drago Jancar received the Austrian state award for European literature Slovenian Writer Drago Jancar received the Austrian state prize for European Literature today in Salzburg. State secretary Andrea Mayer awarded the prize today to Drago Jancar. Austrian federal president Alexander van der Bellen and Nobel prize winner Peter Handke were present at the ceremony at the music university Mozarteum in Salzburg. Shotlist - CS Slovenia writer Drago Jancar - CS Austrian president Alexander van der Bellen - MS state secretary Andrea Mayer and in the background Nobel prize winner Peter Handke - SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Andrea Mayer, Austrian state secretary for cultural affairs: "Love overcomes any distance. Love overcomes everything. Except for the war. The war overcomes everything. Also them, who fight each other. And these ones, who just wait to the end. That is written by Drago Jancar in his recent work: When love is sleeping.Shortly ago, I read the novel, and I kept especially these sentences in mind. They touch you in a unique way. A warm welcome to the award of the Austrian state prize for literature 2020, here in Salzburg. Many novels deal with Slovenia and the birth origin town of Drago Jancar, Maribor, But they reach far from the boarders and they show central trauma of the European history. His books reminds us what happens if the frontiers of a country will transform overnight to a war front and what happens if the belief of the people , nation or party takes over the thinking and doing." - ZOOM OUT audience, applauding - ZOOM IN Elbow greets between Austrian President and Drago Jancar - SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Alexander van der Bellen, Federal president: "For me and my wife, it was a pleasure to read this and to get to know you. Eventually, it is important, as Andrea Mayer already said today, that we get to know better our southern neighbour Italy. Thank you very very much." - ZOOM OUT Austrian President stepping off speakers panel - MS Austrian president handing over document, flowers, Jancar bowing - PAN LEFT Audience applauding - ZOOM IN Jancar presenting document and flowers in his hands - ZOOM OUT Jancar off - WS audience (short) - VS award ceremony SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Drago Jancar, writer: "The European literature has a broad orchestra, and a choir, which reports to us in many languages , many voices and many esthetic variations of human experience from the past and today." - ZOOM OUT Drago Jancar walking - MS Jancar with flowers, walking along first row of audience
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:03/08/2020
- Decade: 2020s