"In Dodel's work, the abbreviated form of the haiku is intertwined with the claimed endlessness of a long poem. The impressive inventory of the poetic cabinet of curiosities is combined with religious contemplation and poetic insight. The "consolation" of the title is utopian. This utopia is worthy of an award," says the jury, consisting of Carolin Callies (poet and literary mediator), Christian Metz (literary scholar and critic) and Beate Tröger (freelance literary critic).

Franz Dodel, born in Bern in 1949, lives in Boll and Lugnorre, Switzerland. Since 2002, the author has been working daily on the endless haiku poem "Nicht bei Trost". The continuation of the constantly growing chain poem can be followed at www.franzdodel.ch. There are currently seven volumes in the Edition Korrespondenzen. In 2008, "Nicht bei Trost" was awarded the State Prize as one of "Austria's most beautiful books". In 2009 and 2011, Franz Dodel was honored with the Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern.

Sirka Elspaß received the Orphil Debut Prize, endowed with 2,500 euros, for her lyrical debut work "ich föhne mir meine wimpern". "Elspaß's poems are impressive because they not only prove to be relentlessly clear and admirably pointed, but also balance their gravity with finely crafted comedy. This is how impressively clever and to the point the poetry of our present can sound in order to open up a poetic future at the same time," said the jury.

Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, lives and works in Vienna. She studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism in Hildesheim and Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Elspaß was a prizewinner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreistin 2013. She was co-editor of BELLA triste and has published in various magazines and anthologies. The poetry collection "ich föhne mir meine wimpern" is her debut, published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The volume was shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize in 2022 and was nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize in 2024.

The Orphil Poetry Prize of the State Capital of Wiesbaden was awarded by Head of the Cultural Office Jörg-Uwe Funk on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at the Literaturhaus Villa Clementine.

The "Orphil" poetry prize is donated by Ilse Konell, widow of the poet George Konell, who died in 1991 and spent many years of his life in Wiesbaden.

The event is organized by the Wiesbaden Cultural Office.