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Die Spielerin
Isabelle Lehn
CoalMine
Winterthur

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25-02-2025
Weil die Wunden Vögel werden. Landschaften der Ukr…
Artur Dron, Anatolij Dnistrowyj, Alexander Kratoch…
Literaturhaus Basel
Basel

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25-02-2025
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Oliver Fischer
Buchhandlung Weyermann & Queerbooks
Bern

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25-02-2025
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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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Catalin D. Florescu, Der kurze Weg nach Hause: «The Centre of the World» is a topical collection of thought-provoking stories about migration. The nine stories in the book were written between 2001 and 2016 and are connected by themes of migration and a shared sense of unease. They examine the impact of the mass movement of people on individual lives and illustrate the resilience required to overcome hardship. In each story, characters restricted by the scope of their problematic lives seek to find relief as the world around them moves in a new direction. Motifs of departure and loss, transit and new beginnings recur throughout the collection. In the title story the narrator recounts leaving Romania as a child. He recalls a chance meeting that leads his family to settle in Switzerland instead of travelling any further. ‘We were good migrants from the start,’ he says, 'you can’t tell we’re foreigners’. But he still needs to translate his emotions into the language of his youth in order to grasp them properly. He regards both countries with mixed feelings, finding it difficult to call either one his home and defining himself by his sense of loss and yearning to belong. Another story looks at the effects of migration on those who are left behind. A child grows up with his Romanian grandmother while his parents are forced to go abroad to earn a living. Later on, with practically no family left, he considers migrating himself. He encounters a young Syrian refugee trying to cross the border into Europe. They share the same goals although their circumstances could hardly be more different. Florescu is a master storyteller, justly celebrated for his poetic language. He gets very close to his characters, demonstrating a deep understanding of their human predicament and succeeding in finding a different voice for each individual story. Like Colum McCann, Florescu writes moving tales of lonely people stranded in everyday life, melancholic stories which touch on the big issues of our time. (Recommended by New Books in German)

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Matthias Zschokke, Der Mann mit den zwei Augen: He has two eyes and a nose: that's about all the main character reveals about himself in Matthias Zschokke's novel. He seems unremarkable, but still it's impossible to overlook him. "I will be wearing a coat, sand-coloured, and in my left hand I will probably be holding a small, sandy-coloured suitcase. I am of average height, have averagelength sand-coloured hair, and on my right will be a woman, about a head shorter than me, and whom you might as well picture as sandy-coloured too. We can't miss each other." Although he works as a court reporter, the man with two eyes has a strong aversion to anything unusual. He clearly prefers things to be normal and ordinary – and it is in that very ordinariness that he discovers the unusual, the beautiful, the sad, and the comical. He finds it everywhere: in a café or on the street, whether he is meeting strangers or acquaintances, whether he is on the move or at home with his wife, whom he met and fell in love with years ago at choir practice. Funny or tragic? What may at first seem banal, on closer inspection reveals hidden depths of meaning. Both Matthias Zschokke's novel and his protagonist inhabit the two extremes. In his writing, Zschokke is a master of the twists and turns, placing events and characters under a bright light in which they lose their familiarity and become extraordinary.

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Leo Tuor, Catscha sil Capricornen Cavrein: «If you want know everything, every last detail, about a valley, everything about a mountain and its slopes, its rocks, its screes, outcrops and peaks, its ravines, chasms and crannies, then you should go hunting ibex in the high Alps.»

New releases

Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.

New releases

Roman Kurzmeyer: Sammlung Ricola. Gegenwart und Geschichte. Scheidegger & Spiess.

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