Kinga Tóth, a PhD candidate at the doctoral school “Cultures in Transformation”  at the  Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges, won the Kelag Prize at the 50th Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt for her text “OstblockMädl”, which gives a voice to women and their experiences in the border region between Hungary and Austria. The borders addressed in the text have not only geographical and political dimensions, but are above all of a social and economic nature and characterised by nationalism and sexism. Kinga Tóth translates the clichés and inhumanity that define these border crossings, as well as the dark underbelly of capitalism, into striking linguistic imagery. Her reading, which also featured musical interludes, received great acclaim from the jury, and she finished just behind the winner of the Bachmann Prize in the voting.

In her doctoral thesis, which she has been working on since October 2024 as part of the doctoral school “Cultures in Transformation”, Kinga Tóth is also exploring the crossing of boundaries – specifically between nuns’ art and contemporary performative literature.