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2024 UUSMISCHTE – Ein Zuger Schauhaufen. Die zupac…
Judith Stadlin, Michael van Orsouw und Severin Hof…
Oswalds Eleven
Zug
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22-12-2024
Märlitheater - Pinocchio
Debi Althuser, Beat Gärtner, Jeremy Müller & Giann…
Millers
Zürich
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22-12-2024
Bald ist Weihnachten
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Liechtensteinisches LandesMuseum
Vaduz
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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.
Reading tip
Jonas Lüscher, Frühling der Barbaren: Preising is a Swiss factory owner, in his mid-50s and somewhat lazy. He’s on a business trip, staying in a luxurious oasis hotel in Tunisia, the ‘Thousand and One Nights Resort’, where he watches the lavish preparations for a wedding. Rich young Englishmen from London’s financial sector have invited friends and family to a huge, riotous celebration. «Young people in their late 20s and early 30s…noisy and self-confident…slim and in the peak of condition.»
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Christoph Keller, Der beste Tänzer: The author Christoph Keller suffers from ‹spinal muscular atrophy› (SMA) in which case the brain gradually loses control over the locomotor system. One loses one’s freedom of movement. In «The Best Dancer» he talks about his illness. The book is not a factual report on his life, rather, it is a work of prose art. It is remarkable how brutally honest he takes stock of all the losses that followed the diagnosis ‹SMA› twenty years earlier. That same year another diagnosis was made: His father’s business went bankrupt, an event with devastating consequences for his entire family. His father’s helpless anger about it would never go away. Keller combines the two painful threads. Both the father and the spinal muscular atrophy are illnesses which he gradually learnt to deal with but which nevertheless continue to humble and anger him. He subtly differentiates between reality and fiction. Above all, he succeeds at keeping the burgeoning bitterness and shame at bay through ironic remarks. Like a dancer of stylistic sovereignty he holds his ground between the two dangerous maelstroms of his life. A book in which feelings of weakness alternate beautifully with liberating moments of happiness. (Beat Mazenauer, transl.by Anja Hälg)
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Adolf Muschg, Der rote Ritter: 800 years after Wolfram von Eschenbach and Chrétien de Troyes wrote the story for the first time, «Parzival» continues to describe human maturation in a most exemplary way. An ignorant fool leaves home in order to find himself in the world outside. Adolf Muschg takes up this old tale and retells it in his 1000 page opus magnum «The Red Knight». While the original tale features the hero as a role model who grows into a social order, Muschg psychologises the protagonist based on modern criteria. Thereby, Parzival becomes the poster child of a new turning point which is characterised by a vain utopian hope and which allows for parallels between the middle ages and the 1990s. Muschg retells, reflects, interlards, cuts out and thereby gives his hero a personality behind which the author becomes apparent. Oscillating between novella and essay, the novel forms a unique cachet of brilliant style and linguistic vividness. This new Parzival appears more ironic and colourful, lighter but also more ambivalent than his model. Most importantly, the idea of salvation is solved in a contemporary manner. The Holy Grail, here, is a black hole, and humankind should not expect anything else to come from it than what one places inside. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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Nadja Köffler: Die Kunst hinzusehen. Das wahrnehmen, was anderen entgeht. Versus/allerArt.
New releases
Nadja Köffler: Die Kunst hinzusehen. Das wahrnehmen, was anderen entgeht. Versus/allerArt.
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