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Isabelle Lehn
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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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Bern

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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

Kuno Raeber, Das Ei: The first-person narrator is sitting in a café in Rome just opposite the Lateran and ponders over a white sheet of paper. He is thinking about the shameful act of Laszlo Toth. In 1972 Toth had damaged the Pietà in the Vatican with a hammer and had thereby pre-empted the first-person narrator. So the latter can only repeat the inglorious act and make it “more complete and more perfect” through words. “The Egg”, this fascinating, extravagant testimony of an effusive passion is the fantastically meandering tale about the desire to extinguish Maria – representative of the woman and the mother – and with her the very own existence as a son. The narrator then imagines himself into the line of succession of Christian martyrs. Yearning for freedom, at the same time captive in the realm of mothers he dreams of a brotherly community. Raeber’s novel is one big shrill outcry against the motherly, Marian institution. The desperate rebellion against woman paired with a male-mythical rapture in this prose is oddly anachronistic. However, the author manages to absorb this anachronistic dimension through a pompous language that brings forth the holy gravity and the rebellious spirit. No one mirrors the inner turmoil between discipline and debauchery as Raeber does, a turmoil that for a long time characterised the Catholic milieu of Central Switzerland. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)

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Carole Allamand, La plume de l’ours: The Camille Duval case has kept the literary world busy for some fifty years now. No-one has been able to explain why this highly successful Swiss writer emigrated to the USA after the mysterious death of his wife and the unusual move by the Catholic Church in 1948 to censor one of his novels and put it on the Index of banned books. And how was it that, after a twelve years’ silence, he was suddenly once again the man of the moment? How did he manage so radically to renew his style? How did he become the literary genius, which changed the novel for all time?

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Arno Camenisch, Ustrinkata: Raised voices in the «Helvezia» tavern, composed in a virtuoso manner by the narrator. One final evening spent together, until the last bottles are empty and the village watering hole is to be closed forever. Anecdotes are told, the patrons tease each other, they talk of the natural dangers looming ahead and bemoan modern times, they philosophizes about life and death, laugh and turn sentimental. Does the end of the pub stand for the end of rural life? «Last Last Orders» completes Arno Camenisch’s trilogy set in the Grisons region of Switzerland, whose parts repeatedly bring to fruition the coupling of German and Rhaeto-Romanic in surprisingly novel ways. (Federal jury of literature, trans. by Simon Froehling) (Last Last Orders, Translated by Donal McLaughlin, to be published by Dalkey Archive Press, Chicago)

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Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.

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