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Winterthur

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25-02-2025
Weil die Wunden Vögel werden. Landschaften der Ukr…
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Basel

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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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Sibylle Berg, Wunderbare Jahre: Paris, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Thailand … place we long to go and to explore, because we regard them as beautiful, romantic, exotic, perhaps even a little bit dangerous. But – are they still? Sibylle Berg's view is: «no». The days when we longed to escape are gone, she says, and the world of the 21th century has become somewhere we wish to escape from. Her pen is sharp and caustic, but also funny and discerning, as she writes how travel is not what it once was. Beaches are battlegrounds, cafés are bombing zones, cruise ships are «environmental killing fields» where «personal space is portion-controlled». These essays and columns, written over the past twenty years and revised and expanded for this book, are Berg's very personal travelogues. And she's no armchair traveller: she's been there, done that and tells us about it soberly, idealising nothing, but never without emotion. This is a highly intellectual and readable «anti-guidebook». (Recommended for Translation by Pro Helvetia, 2016)

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Tommaso Soldini, Uno per uno: They grew up in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s, in a country that was flourishing; but even so, the characters in One by One live a life on the edge of society, a life full of unanswered questions. They all have their own worries, their little obsessions, their lives are all out of joint. They’re unhappy, or at least they’re quite convinced they’re unlucky.

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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.

New releases

Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.

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

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