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Mitteilung 2024-07-12 [«Topshelf Night» Schloss Lenzburg]: Eine Sommernacht zwischen Lichtern und Stars, die ganz der Literatur und dem Lesen gehört! Und Bookstagram! Und BookTok!

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Mitteilung 2024-06-26 [Bachmann-Preis]: Statt Fussball 3 Tage lang Literatur gucken: Heute starten die diesjährigen «Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur».

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Mitteilung 2024-06-24 [Pro Litteris Preis 24 – Sasha Filipenko & Maud Mabillard]: ProLitteris verleiht zwei Preise in der Sparte Literatur an Sasha Filipenko und Maud Mabillard.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-21 [Literaturfestival Zürich]: Nicht verpassen: Vom 8.-14.7.24 steigt wieder das Literaturfestival Zürich.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-17 [Stiftung Lydia Eymann Literaturstipendium]: Bis 30.6.24 bewerben fürs Stipendium der Lydia Eymann Stiftung.

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Mitteilung 2024-06-11 [Markus Bundi «Wilde Tiere»]: Beat Mazenauer bespricht «Wilde Tiere» von Markus Bundi für Viceversaliteratur.ch.

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Stoffe: Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote an autobiography? Yes, and he even worked near exclusively on it for the last twenty years of his life. At the Swiss Literary Archives SLA, which represents his estate, over 24,000 typescript and handwritten pages for his great later oeuvre with the working title «Subject Matter» are recorded – an oeuvre which Dürrenmatt published in the two volumes «Labyrinth» (Diogenes, Zürich 1981) and «Turmbau» (which translates approximately into «building towers» – Diogenes, Zürich 1990). It is, however, a highly refined autobiography, an «autobiografie à la bande», as the Dürrenmatt biographer Peter Rüedi describes it using an image from billiard. Dürrenmatt does not recount the story of his life, much rather he reconstructs the history of his subject matter, as he terms his unwritten projects, the drafts that never surpassed the fragmentary stage and the literary intentions that never left behind a single trace. Only indirectly, through the stories about these subject matters, the text also reveals the biography. Like few others, Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a master of the closed form and the assured payoff. Yet the «Subject Matter» project presented him with a new challenge: the realisation that past life and events elude target-oriented access and constantly change under scrutiny, as well as the realisation that remembering is always a process of constructing the past anew, that a juxtaposition of biographical reality, then, and literary fiction is dubious, making any conclusion problematic. A process of endless reflection, of imagining and remembering is set in motion. Increasingly, this «History of My Writing» transforms from an autobiographical retrospective of the beginnings of authorship into an introspection of writing in the face of death. (Rudolf Probst, trans. by Simon Froehling) Excerpts printed in: Selected Writings, vol 3, trans. by Joel Agee, University Of Chicago Press 2006.

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Urs Allemann, In sepps welt: There is no english translation of this title. to read the german version of the reading tip.

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Alex Capus, Der Fälscher, die Spionin und der Bombenbauer: The Forger, the Spy and the Bomb Maker is a novel about three reluctant heroes.

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Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.

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Joanna Yulla Kluge: David Pablo. lectorbooks.

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