Johann Heinrich Merck Award Goes to Kathrin Passig
The works by this year’s winner, Kathrin Passig, address the opportunities and risks of daily life in the digital world. “Digitalization is no doubt one of the greatest challenges facing our society, as well as the business world. We at Merck are embracing digitalization and aim to make even better use of the tremendous growth opportunities it offers our businesses. Public debate of the topic is thus valuable to us,” Oschmann continued.
Kathrin Passig “describes and analyzes digital culture as a way of life,” said the German Academy for Language and Poetry. The jury is awarding her the Johann Heinrich Merck Award for Literary Critique and Essay for “her highly original texts that address a broad spectrum of topics and expertly span the blog, book and essay formats“. In the jury’s opinion, “in her endeavors to try out new writing forms and formats, she not only reflects the conditions of authorship, but also productively calls into question the traditional notions of the cultural scene, doing so well beyond the sphere of the writing process.“ With her work, “she furthers the critical examination of an epochal change and explores new possibilities of essay and critique beyond the Gutenberg galaxy.”
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