Aargau Culture Prize goes to writer Klaus Merz
Over 370 guests celebrated the author from Wynental in Aargau last Wednesday.
The Aargau writer Klaus Merz
was honored on Wednesday evening in the Baden transformer hall with the Aargauer
Cultural Award of the AZ Medien Group. Over 370 guests celebrated
the author from the Wynental in the canton of Aargau, whose prose and
his poems to the important contemporary voices in the
German-speaking countries. The jury recognizes Klaus Merz as "a
committed poet and observer of art, who sees life in its
perceives the whole", as stated in a press release. The laudatory speech was given by
Manfred Papst, Head of Culture at NZZ am Sonntag. The 25,000
Aargauer Kulturpreis, which is endowed with a prize money of
The prize was awarded for the eighth time and donated by publisher Peter Wanner.
was honored on Wednesday evening in the Baden transformer hall with the Aargauer
Cultural Award of the AZ Medien Group. Over 370 guests celebrated
the author from the Wynental in the canton of Aargau, whose prose and
his poems to the important contemporary voices in the
German-speaking countries. The jury recognizes Klaus Merz as "a
committed poet and observer of art, who sees life in its
perceives the whole", as stated in a press release. The laudatory speech was given by
Manfred Papst, Head of Culture at NZZ am Sonntag. The 25,000
Aargauer Kulturpreis, which is endowed with a prize money of
The prize was awarded for the eighth time and donated by publisher Peter Wanner.
