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Die Spielerin
Isabelle Lehn
CoalMine
Winterthur
25-02-2025
Weil die Wunden Vögel werden. Landschaften der Ukr…
Artur Dron, Anatolij Dnistrowyj, Alexander Kratoch…
Literaturhaus Basel
Basel
25-02-2025
Buchpräsentation: «Man kann die Liebe nicht stärke…
Oliver Fischer
Buchhandlung Weyermann & Queerbooks
Bern
25-02-2025
Seinetwegen
Zora del Buono
Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal
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Dorothee Elmiger, Invitation to the Bold of Heart: Born in 1985, Dorothee Elmiger makes a fascinatingly fearless debut as a novelist. «Einladung an die Waghalsigen» (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) explores paths that lie far away from the mainstream and develops a poetic pertinacity. Margarete Stein is sitting at her kitchen table reading – and reading. She lives right above the police station which is headed by her father who is a police commander. The mother ran away long ago. She reads and her sister Fritzi wanders about the area. Together they search for a mysterious river called Buenaventura. In an attempt to write a chronicle the sisters jot down everything they observe, explore, hope, wish for. In her «novel» Dorothee Elmiger does not arrange all these explorations into a closed frame, rather, she presents them in the form of singular particles and fragments that oscillate between close observation, inner perception and read up quotations. There is a certain unrest spinning inside her text, an unrest that reflects the quest for one’s own wishes and for a purpose in life. Elmiger’s poetic novel is like a intensely smouldering fire that cannot be controlled. Its musical and linguistic structure reveals a certain obstinacy and poetic audacity. All this makes the book a surprising debut and an invitation to curiosity. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
Katharina Geiser, Diese Gezeiten: In 1940 the German armed forces occupied the Channel Island of Jersey to the dismay of two artists who had settled there some time previously in order to escape the unrest in Paris. The Nazis' conduct is comparatively restrained but the dictatorship and discrimination are omnipresent, so Lucy Schwob and Suzette Malherbe begin to resist. They design posters and display them in public – until they are found out. Katharina Geiser's novel takes up this astonishing subject matter and weaves an atmospheric and very convincing story. The narrative tells of personal courage and the price to pay for it. It is its subtle nuances that make this novel. Not all of the inhabitants of Jersey were courageous, and not all Germans were despicable henchmen. Some «saw and heard nothing». Geiser imagines what happens to the two friends after their arrest. The voice of the narrator blends with the inner voices of Lucy and Suzanne in a delicately orchestrated narrative. They remain faithful to their strategy even in moments of danger by resisting the Germans through wordplay. This does not stop them being sentenced to death, but the end of the war chases the Germans from the island just in time. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
Simona Ryser, Maries Gespenster: «Maries Gespenster» is the remarkable debut novel of Zurich based author Simona Ryser. Marie erratically and restlessly roams the labyrinth of a metropolis. Again and again she meets her long gone and buried mother on the street or in a bus. Marie struggles with the memories about her. Rituals protect her from going crazy. Every day she modifies lists to keep up an alleged order and to handle this complicated life. With a heavily rhythmised language Simona Ryser tells the story of Marie and her attempts to tame the everyday, a language that bears the roughness and unruliness of Büchner’s drama «Woyzeck». Discreetly and ingeniously she inserts motives and phrases from it into her text, accompanying it with the echo of «Lasciate mi morire» from Monteverdi’s opera «L’Arianna». She thereby creates a compact narrative staccato in which she embeds the heroine who wanders like a ghost through temples to consumerism and the urban wilderness in search of her friend Wolf and of herself. At the end she deals «the numbers anew». (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Anja Hälg)
Joanna Yulla Kluge: David Pablo. lectorbooks.
Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.
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