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24-02-2025
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
Buchpräsentation: «Man kann die Liebe nicht stärke…
Oliver Fischer
Buchhandlung Weyermann & Queerbooks
Bern

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25-02-2025
Seinetwegen
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Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal

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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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Jacques Chessex, A Jew must die: On April 16th 1942, the cattle dealer Arthur Bloch is slain next to the market in Payerne and then dumped into the Lake of Neuchâtel. Bloch was highly estimated among the farmers as a fair dealer – but he was a Jew. That was enough to bring a group of half-witted Nazis to prey on him. Jacques Chessex, born in 1934 in Payerne, had heard about this case. He reviewed the case again. He recounts Arthur Bloch’s martyrdom matter-of-factly, like a chronicler, not least in order to evaluate if something similar could happen again. Behind the naive and fanatic murderers who were caught quickly, he discovers a network of perfidiously scheming agitators, among them the former vicar Lugrin whose hate was unbridled and essential. Chessex describes how he accidentally recognises Lugrin in a café in Lausanne in 1964 and sits down with him for a couple of eerie moments. Bloch was a random victim to set a warning example. By revisiting the case, Chessex brings back the preposterous and terrible act into the collective consciousness. The book was received as a provocation especially in Payerne, most probably for its factual, sober recounting and for its wanting to understand rather than to denounce. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)

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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)

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Thomas Hürlimann, The Envoy: The Foehn wind is blowing up a storm but Heinrich’s blind father still wants to welcome his son with garlands, lampions and flags when he returns home from a successful mission on 8 May 1945, the day of Germany’s surrender. The son has led the Berlin legation through «momentous, testing times» and skillfully preserved Switzerland from war. However, the family welcome takes the worst possible turn in Thomas Hürlimann’s play «Der Gesandte» (first performed: Schauspielhaus Zürich 1991) as Heinrich Zwygart is dropped by the Federal Council. It is the «General’s uncompromising resistance» alone that has saved Switzerland, and not a diplomatic balancing act of adaptation and neutrality towards the Third Reich. Zwygart finds himself isolated as a «traitor to his country» and forgotten as all trace of him disappears in a flurry of thick-falling snow and strains of Wagnerian piano. Performed for the first time in the 700th year of the Swiss Confederation, Hürlimann’s play provocatively draws attention to a period of transition in which clever opportunists changed their convictions as quickly as they redefined their understanding of Swiss history. In the confusion of such a collective living of lies, those who clung onto their historical significance like Zwygart, and Hans Frölicher, the fashionable, controversial Swiss delegate to Berlin from 1938-1945 he is based upon, simply went under. (Severin Perrig, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

New releases

Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.

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Joanna Yulla Kluge: David Pablo. lectorbooks.

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