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December 20, 2012

Festival Neue Literatur Announces Prestigious Prize for Promoting German-language Literature

The Friedrich Ulfers Prize will be awarded annually to an individual who has demonstrated exemplarywork in the promotion of German-language literature in the U.S.

NEW YORK - Festival Neue Literatur (FNL), New Yorks preeminent German-language literary festival,will be celebrating its fourth year on February 22

- 24, 2013 across various locations in Brooklyn and

Manhattan. This years festival will include a new prize awarded by Deutsches Haus at New YorkUniversity to a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator or scholar who has championed theadvancement of German-language literature in the United States.

At a time when fiction from Austria, Germany and Switzerland is increasingly reaching Americanaudiences, we want to honor those who have dedicated themselves to providing access to these oftenhidden treasures. Festival Neue Literatur has itself over the past years become a symbol for these effortsand is therefore an ideal platform to inaugurate the Friedrich Ulfers Prize. Thanks to the generosity ofProfessor Friedrich Ulfers, a life-long promoter of German literature and thought, this prize will givetestimony to the rising importance of German-language literature in America, said Martin Rauchbauer,Director of Deutsches Haus at New York University.

The first recipient of the newly established Friedrich Ulfers Prize of Deutsches Haus at NYU will beannounced and awarded during the opening ceremony of this years FNL on February 21 at the GoetheInstitut New York. A jury composed of representatives of FNLs participating institutions and organizationswill select the inaugural winner.

The prize winner will receive $ 5,000, donated by Professor Ulfers, a renowned NYU scholarand formerdirector of Deutsches Haus at NYU.

It is my fervent hope that this prize will make a contribution to the efforts of many dedicated and

passionate people in the publishing industry, the media and academia to make German-languageliterature accessible to an American audience by giving it a spotlight it so richly deserves, said ProfessorUlfers.

About Festival Neue Literatur

Festival Neue Literatur (FNL) is New Yorks first and only annual German-language literary festival,established in 2009 as a collaborative project of New Yorks leading German-language culturalinstitutions: the Austrian Cultural Forum, Deutsches Haus at Columbia University, Deutsches Haus atNYU, the German Book Office, the German Consulate, the Goethe-Institut NY, Pro Helvetia and theSwiss Consulate.Each year FNL brings six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors fromAustria, Germany and Switzerland to NYC. For New York literary fans it is a rare opportunity to tap intothe flourishing German-language literary landscape.

Over the festival weekend, featured authors engage in a series of panels and readings with Americanguest authors. Past American authors include: Francisco Goldman, Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen andFrancine Prose. Festival Neue Literatur 2013 will feature authors Clemens Setz and Cornelia Travnicek ofAustria, Leif Randt and Silke Scheuermann of Germany and Tim Krohn and Ulrike Ulrich of Switzerland,along with American authors Joshua Cohen and Joshua Ferris. FNL 2013 will proceed under thecuratorial direction of Susan Bernofsky and Claudia Steinberg.

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Learn more about the festival at www.festivalneueliteratur.org. Visit FNL on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/FestivalNeueLiteraturand on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FestNeueLit

FNL Media Contact:

Brittany Hazelwoodfestivalneueliteratur@gmail.com502 762 3455

Friedrich Ulfers is Associate Professor of German at New York University, in thepast also serving as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Science, theGerman Departments Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the NYU inBerlin Summer and Director of Deutsches Haus at NYU. Winner of NYU'sDistinguished Teaching Medal and Great Teacher Award, and twice winner of theCollege of Arts and Science's Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching, hehas taught not only in the German Department but also in NYU's interdisciplinaryprograms, offering courses that engage a range of interests, including literarytheory, continental philosophy, and the relationships between science, literature,and philosophy.

From 1999 to 2009 Professor Ulfers was also affiliated with the European GraduateSchool in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He served there as professor of Philosophy, teaching an intensiveSummer Seminar on Nietzsche and 20th/21st-Century Thought and giving a variety of lectures. From2006 - 2009 he was Dean of the Media and Communications Division of the School, and in 2009 he wasappointed Professor Emeritus. He is Senator of and serves as Secretary of the American Council for theSchools Media and Communications Division.