“Loud Life”, the newly published debut by Bachmann Prize winner Helga Schubert, outlines biographies in the German dictatorship.
When Helga Schubert won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize two years ago, it was a triumph that brought her congratulations, hymns of praise and a constantly ringing telephone. For the literary world, it was an indictment: How could it be that this author, whose story “Vom Aufgeten” enchanted the jury and the audience alike, had to write for the drawer for 20 years? Why wasn’t a publisher interested in them?