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Gardi Hutter
Stadttheater Langenthal
Langenthal
Events
27-02-2025
Poetologischer Input. Leif Randt spricht über sein…
Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg
Events
27-02-2025
Text! - Literatur im Gespräch
Andi Schoon (Moderation: Hartmut Abendschein)
Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Veranstaltungssaal, 1. UG
Bern
Events
27-02-2025
Pult: Lyrikwerkstatt im Februar
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg, AMSEL, Klagenfurt…
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Lenzburg
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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
Zora del Buono, Hinter Büschen, an eine Hauswand gelehnt: Vita ist being questioned by the police. What does she know about Zev? the police are looking for him. Swiss author Zora del Buono tells the story of a middle-aged college professor and her love affair with a student against the backdrop of the Snowden revelations in this short, exciting novel. In this tightly constructed novella, del Buono ensures that the reader is gripped throughout by interweaving the developping story of Vita's summer at the college with her journey after she has been forced to leave the United States. The main story, told from Vita's perspective, is interrupted by press cuttings from the summer of 2013. We see the NSA scandal unravel as Zev's youthful idealism collides with Vita's more distant attitude. The increasing paranoia of being observed by American intelligence agencies is tangible. Del Buono tells her story in short, vivid epidsodes, and her narrator is an astute observer of college life and those around her. She is also unflinching and unapologetic in her account of what it is like to be middle-aged woman with a younger lover. «Behind Bushes, Leaning Against the Wall» is a refreshing antdote to love stories and crime thrillers alike. (Recommended by New Books in German, 40/2016)
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Max Frisch, Homo Faber: «Homo Faber» is probably Max Frisch’s most renown novel, it was published in 1957. Subjectively, it conveys a psychogram of the Swiss Engineer Walter Faber who at first appears egotistic and technophile as he leaves his pregnant girlfriend in 1936 for a job in Bagdad. As a half-Jew she is forced to flee and, against their agreement, decides not to have an abortion. 20 years later, Faber meets young Elisabeth on a boat. They fall in love and travel through Europe together until Elisabeth is bitten by a snake in Greece, falls and succumbs to her injuries. Faber’s «report», as he entitles the genre in the book’s subheading, is written in retrospect. It represents the attempt to understand the accident as well as the incestuous relation with his daughter, leaning towards coincidence rather than fate. Not only does his technological world become more and more unreliable, his rational worldview is crumbling as well. Moreover, his elliptic linguistic style shows signs of guilt and suppression. Altogether the text appears so strongly designed – even for an engineer – with its shifting narrative time of interlaced flashbacks and foresights, with its rigid oppositions, and above all with its dense fabric of symbolic and mythological references that the report turns against his own narrator. (Marc Caduff, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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Jens Steiner, Carambole: Three old men regularly meet for dinner and a game of Carambole, a game in which one nudges little colourful stones with a bigger white stone, the goal being to put them down the holes in the board. Jens Steiner’s second novel is called Carambole. Through individual mosaics he tells the story of an idyllic village whose idle monotony is about to literally explode. Summer break is almost there. While the three old men have settled in their eventlessness, three young boys are burning to see something happen. Suddenly they all hear a bang. A factory exploded, the rumour goes. Steiner gathers his narration around this signal. Just as in the Carambole game, he nudges his tokens and moves them around. The explosion serves as an orientation on the timeline. Manu, one of the boys, is searching for some bugs when he hears the bang. And Igor is speaking to Schorsch at the fountain, a mysterious vagabond who appears here and there. He is the novel’s mysterious epicentre. Its twelve chapters narrate in the first or the third person and from the viewpoint of different figures. Only gradually the complexity of the relations holding the village together become recognisable as such. Jens Steiner creates striking miniatures which finally fall into place like pieces of a puzzle. In an atmospheric way he describes a treacherous idyll. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg) Carambole received the Schweizer Buchpreis in 2013.
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