democratic deficits especially in the influence and power of individual nation states, while valuing positively the purely European institutions, such as the Commission. In Der Europäische Landbote (2012; Engl. transl. 2016 as Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits: Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For The European Messenger), he draws a portrait of the non-petty-minded supranational organs and bureaucracies of the EU in Brussels and further develops the "Habsburg Myth" of Claudio Magris into a "European Myth". This also leads to a different and more positive retrospective of the Habsburg Monarchy. In this connection Menasse also speaks in favour of the specific vision and its realization of a “European Republic” formulated together with the political scientist Ulrike Guérot on the basis of a Europe of regions beyond the nation states. Controversy about fake quotations In December 2018, Welt am Sonntag revealed that Robert Menasse had fabricated several quotes attributed to Walter Hallstein (1901-1982), one of the founding fathers of the EU) to support his argument for overcoming nation states. Menasse had been using these alleged quotes in many of his articles, essays and speeches since 2013, and they had been taken up in parliamentary debates and publications by other authors. Menasse defended himself arguing that these sentences reflected what Hallstein had meant and that Hallstein "would have had nothing against" Menasse invoking his authority in this way. However, historian Heinrich August Winkler disputed Menasse's interpretation of Hallstein's actual statements on the matter. Prizes, awards and scholarships 1987: State scholarship for literature of the Austrian ministry of education and literature 1989: Encouragement prize for literature of the city of Vienna 1990: Heimito von Doderer Prize 1991: State scholarship for literature of the Austrian ministry of education and literature 1992: Hans Erich Nossack encouragement prize for prose of the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie Köln 1992: Theodor Körner Prize 1992/1993: Elias Canetti-scholarship of the city of Vienna 1994: Berlin residency in the context of the DAAD-scholarship 1994: Marburger Literaturpreis i.e. Literaturpreis der Universitätsstadt Marburg und des Landkreises Marburg-Biedenkopf 1994: Encouragement prize for novels of the Austrian ministry of education and literature 1994: Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize 1996: of the city of Pirmasens 1998: Österreichischer Staatspreis für Kulturpublizistik 1999: Grimmelshausen-Preis 1999: Writer-in-residence in Amsterdam 2002: Joseph Breitbach Prize 2002: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2002: Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis 2002: Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize 2003: Erich Fried