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You rarely hear dialect at the Bachmann Prize on the stage. Natascha Gangl started the reading day in Styrian: “Wou gheastn you go?” In the text From this (meant: boundary, commemorative, tombstones) is about the Slovenian-Hungarian-Austrian border region of Southeast Styria, where the author lives, as a historical space in which the 20th century, especially the 20th century, has been enrolled. Playing with scattered dialect and equal sounds, the author developed an urgent thinking about conflicts, separating, reminding.
