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Der Dichter auf verlorenem Posten.Wie erfreulich, dass Jan Wagner den Leipziger Buchpreis in diesem Jahr bekommt. Er ist einer der virtuosesten Lyriker, die wir gegenwärtig haben. VON WIEBKE POROMBKA, Die Zeit

The poet Jan Wagner won the Leipzig Book Fair. All cheer. But why? This eternal entrails is a bankruptcy and symptomatic of the German literature. (…)

And the’ BBC’ analyzed these’ exciting news’ in advance at length on page one in the editorial and came to the conclusion that’ the balance of power between the novel and the poem would on the head made’.

In what world the living in? Sensation, Sensation: A sensation it might, if IS nudist would allow.

And power structure, power structure: this is not about the end of capitalism and the new social order.

So why are so drunk by itself – perhaps to hide the fact that it is a very cinnamon – and – sugary decision that would be strange if it were not symptomatic of a mental attitude that literature still, always, looks great German scholar in the country as a protection against the present. / Panteres