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Landesmuseum Zürich
Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
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Literaturhaus Basel, Barfüssergasse
Basel
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Lesung aus – «Mr. Goebbels Jazz Band»
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Aarau
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Taschenbuchvernissage DÜRRST
Simon Froehling, Nino Gadient & Special Guests
Chez Nous
Zürich
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Mitteilung 2024-04-22 [Die Frauen der Gruppe 47 – Literaturhaus Basel]: Im Literaturhaus dreht sich am 24.4.24 alles um die Frauen der Gruppe 47. Und darum, warum sie heute so gut wie vergessen sind.
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Mitteilung 2024-04-18 [Literatur Parade Turin]: Deutschsprachige Literatur als Ehrengast der Internationalen Buchmesse in Turin.
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Mitteilung 2024-04-15 [Binding Preis Chrysalide 2024]: 2024 schreibt die Sophie und Karl Binding Stiftung erstmals den Binding Preis Chrysalide aus.
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Mitteilung 2024-04-11 [Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis 2024]: An den Solothurner Literaturtagen wird auch heuer der Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis verliehen.
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Mitteilung 2024-04-08 [Rotpunktverlag – Wemakeit]: Der Rotpunktverlag ist in finanzieller Not und braucht Hilfe.
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Mitteilung 2024-04-05 [W.-G.-Sebald-Literaturpreis 2024]: W.-G.-Sebald-Literaturpreis 2024 – bis 30.4.24 einsenden.
Reading tip
Carmen Stephan, It's all true: Guided by stars, four men set sail from north-east Brazil to see their president. Sixty-one days later they arrive as heroes. Orson Welles plans a film about their journey, but one of the four is swept overboard during filming and disappears. «It’s All True» is an understated but complex novella based on real-life events, taking its title from Orson Welles’ unfinished film. Carmen Stephan’s novella is a beautiful, pensive book with shades of the Old Man and the Sea. The precise yet dream-like writing explores familiar ideas about truth and fiction in a striking and memorable way. Clearly influenced by magic realism and with a pleasing sense of mystery, the novella is full of vivid turns of phrase and striking similes. It’s All True is a philosophical, reflective book, which delights in small descriptive details. The tone is calm, wistful and uncynical – reminiscent of Peter Stamm’s writing – and the narrative’s open, ingenuous style makes for a delightfully heady reading experience. (Recommended by New Books in German, 43/2018)
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Angelika Overath, Flughafenfische: Travellers are sitting around waiting for their connection flight in the sterile transit facility of an airport. Among them is Elis, a photographer for whom transit has become an attitude towards life. In this constant journey her liaison with a similarly vagrant pilot has just flown by and Elis is not sure if she wants to regret this or not. The feelings of a professor of biochemistry, in turn, are more profound, he has settled himself into the smoking area with a bottle of whisky. Talking to himself he bitterly laments the fact that his wife has left him after 30 years of marriage. There is a third person in this space, Tobias. Years ago he built the main tourist attraction of the airport, a huge aquarium with an authentic riff that he is explaining to the people waiting. In her novel, Angelika Overath introduces us to these three figures who are searching for a new place to live. While the professor gradually sinks into delirium, Elis and Tobias start talking to each other. She tells him about her travels, he explains the universe of fish to her. The aquarium is a pedagogical institution with shy seahorses where the males give birth and with symbiotic friendships among the various inhabitants of the riff. Their conversation delicately floats between attraction and otherness. The author very subtly holds the tension of this ephemeral state. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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Raphael Urweider, Lichter in Menlo Park: Raphael Urweider’s volume of poetry «Lights in Menlo Park» captures the world in its material guise. He finds a commanding and mature voice to write about continents, clouds, nature and all its discharges. Kopernikus, Curie, Galileo and Lumière grace the gallery. And above all Thomas Alva Edison. In his laboratory in Menlo Park, the first electric bulb with a carbon filament lit up in 1879 and burnt itself onto the retinas of Edison’s employees. Fiat lux. Urweider’s poems wear the cloak of objectivity, seem mundane even. Exquisite imagery and an unconventional rhythm invest them with poetic quality. One of the key words is «calm»: in it lies the well that fuels the unrest of the search, the unrest of the researcher. And it is also in this state of arousal the poems are formally held. They are lyric in regards to lines and stanzas, the language flow, however, disregards these borders and opens itself up through the omission of clarifying punctuation marks. It is up to the readers to punctuate and thus organize these free ‹chain reactions›. The volume «Lights in Menlo Park» thus shines through poetic strong-mindedness and prosaic wit alike. (Beat Mazenauer, translation by Simon Froehling)
New releases
Simone Leitner: 111 Campingplätze, die man kennen muss. Emons Verlag GmbH.
New releases
Alfred Bodenheimer: Krapfen und Kringel. Atlantis Verlag.
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