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Poetologischer Input. Leif Randt spricht über sein…
Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg

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Text! - Literatur im Gespräch
Andi Schoon (Moderation: Hartmut Abendschein)
Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Veranstaltungssaal, 1. UG
Bern

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Pult: Lyrikwerkstatt im Februar
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg, AMSEL, Klagenfurt…
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Lenzburg

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Allegro Pastell
Leif Randt
Korso
Fribourg

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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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Nicolas Bouvier, The scorpion-fish: In Nicolas Bouvier’s oeuvre the scorpion fish takes on a central role. Bouvier remembers his 1956 sojourn in Sri Lanka during which he succumbed to illness, depression, bad dreams and the pain of love. We encounter the author in the town of Galle in a cheap room, increasingly trapped in himself. He is ill and oscillates between fascination for and desperation about his host country. Memories of the mild India he came from before makes this hotbed of lethargy all the more unbearable. His observations are blurred and sharp at the same time. Pressed by the activity of the omnipresent insects who seem to take up all his attention his report is pulled into the maelstrom of images and associations. Moreover, his language is fraying and thereby reflecting the madness. It is in this aspect that we find the fascination for this capturing report of an «anti-journey». Bouvier wrote the book in 1981 in retrospect, based on memories, notes and a nocturnal dictation, the «zone de silence». He himself called the text «surécrit», over charged and over orchestrated. But it is in that exact way that he renders the feverish agitation and the existential abysses linguistically palpable. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)

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Perikles Monioudis, Im Äther / In the Ether: The Greeks saw ether as the «quintia essenti», the fifth element, but the substance has since dissipated in natural history and the history of mind. In his lecture on poetics «In the Ether» for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the author and transmitter Perikles Monioudis outlines a short history of the ether in order to evoke another subject matter: poetry. Which, too, concerns itself with voids, empty spaces and elusiveness. The author is not concerned with the divisions between poetry and science in his juxtaposition of the two, but much rather with what connects them. «Literature as a category of knowledge acquisition,» and the ether as an aura between hard and soft empiricism. Here, science and poetry meet at a third point: in the narrating character of a radio officer who writes poetry and spends most of his time on the high seas. This radio operator seeks out resonance and frequencies to finally realize that words work like radio signals. In order to save electricity, «the rule of the smallest possible output» applies to signalling, and this is true in a similar way with poetry: the simplest word is the right word – the word that discretely evaporates in the ether. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Simon Froehling)

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Hans Boesch, Der Kiosk: With «The Kiosk», writer and transport planner Hans Boesch (1926-2003) presents a superb mirror of the 1970s in the form of a comprehensive, 400-page strong utopian novel, to which we owe one of the most beautiful and erotic love scenes of modern German-language literature. In a well-conceived construction made up of four parts, each attributed to one of the seasons, «The Kiosk» contains the notations of the silent observer Boos, who is wheelchair-bound as he is missing both legs due to an accident. Boos works as a vendor at a kiosk in a large building, which is a microcosm of university, hospital, laboratory, welfare centre and morgue all rolled into one. Time and again he is harassed by fascistic youths who, at the end of the novel, torch the kiosk where Boos is fast asleep. While Boos’ notes, found by an editor, are charred, they are complete and fully legible. These recordings reflect three time levels: the present-day plot comprises descriptions of the persons and events in and around the building complex. Especially three further male characters are of importance: Mac, an English fighter pilot, who was shot down in the Second World War and is confined to a corset; scientist Adrien with his wooden leg; and finally the down-to-earth character of janitor Hanselmann. Narrator Boos artfully intersperses the present with flashbacks into his past, which notably tells the tragic love story of Boos and Eva, the unhappily married wife of a customs official. Apart from present and past, the novel includes a futuristic perspective, which is why it can be ascribed to the genre of science fiction. This time level centres on the grotesque idea of a world rid of all humans and their banishment to an underwater city. The project, developed by scientist Adrien, who calls it «The Conservation Campaign», is made up of the three sub-projects «The Cleansing of the World» – «a mucking out, so to speak, of all that afflicts the world», meaning people – «Underwater City», in which the all those men and women considered worthy live in small berths without any interaction – and «The Supreme Show», the programming of a virtual pseudo-reality to entertain the inhabitants of the underwater world in their solitary cells. (Rudolf Probst, trans. by Simon Froehling)

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Angelika Waldis: Hier. Dort. Fort.. Atlantis Literatur.

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Angelika Waldis: Aufräumen. Atlantis Literatur.

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