Congratulations! The festival honours the songwriter for her Mascha Kaléko programme ‘In der fernsten der Fernen’ (In the Farthest of the Far). From the jury's statement: `Dota Kehr has captured the ironic, tender and often melancholic tone of Kaléko's 1920s big-city poetry, breathing new life into the poems and making them sound as if they had just been written in this form. The great art of an intelligent poet meets the colourful settings of an intelligent musician.´

Read the complete jury's reasoning here.

The award ceremony and RUTH concert with Dota Kehr will take place on Sunday 5 July in Heinepark.

Photo Annika Weinthal