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Ein Leseabend zum Erzählband «Dichten gegen das Ve…
Mit der Autorin Denise Buser
Café Bistro Cheesmeyer
Sissach

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Auf der Suche nach Europa
Vadim Jendreyko, Sacha Batthyany und Claudia Josi
Literaturhaus Basel
Basel

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Der Engadiner Dorfpolizist
Gian Maria Calonder
Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal

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Krimihappening
Marcel Huwyler
Stadtbibliothek Kriens
Kriens

Journal

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

Jon Semadeni, La Jürada / Der Bannwald: There is no english translation of this title. to read the german version of the reading tip.

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Gertrud Leutenegger, Panischer Frühling: Ejafjallajökull: the name of the Icelandic volcano that erupted in 2010, had the whole of Europe literally holding its breath and presented airlines with a formidable problem. Even London was unusually quiet: no planes in the sky, just birds and clouds. In the Spring of this memorable year, a woman in the prime of her life is on her way to London: she is the ‹ I ›, the first person narrator, of Gertrud Leutenegger’s novel.

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Jacques Chessex, A Jew must die: On April 16th 1942, the cattle dealer Arthur Bloch is slain next to the market in Payerne and then dumped into the Lake of Neuchâtel. Bloch was highly estimated among the farmers as a fair dealer – but he was a Jew. That was enough to bring a group of half-witted Nazis to prey on him. Jacques Chessex, born in 1934 in Payerne, had heard about this case. He reviewed the case again. He recounts Arthur Bloch’s martyrdom matter-of-factly, like a chronicler, not least in order to evaluate if something similar could happen again. Behind the naive and fanatic murderers who were caught quickly, he discovers a network of perfidiously scheming agitators, among them the former vicar Lugrin whose hate was unbridled and essential. Chessex describes how he accidentally recognises Lugrin in a café in Lausanne in 1964 and sits down with him for a couple of eerie moments. Bloch was a random victim to set a warning example. By revisiting the case, Chessex brings back the preposterous and terrible act into the collective consciousness. The book was received as a provocation especially in Payerne, most probably for its factual, sober recounting and for its wanting to understand rather than to denounce. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)

New releases

Stefan Györke: Tizianas Rosen. Arisverlag.

New releases

Jonas Willisegger: Gemeindeführungsmodelle in der Deutschschweiz. Eine Übersicht und Handlungsempfehlungen. Seismo Verlag.

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