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Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
Events
03.00 PM
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
Events
07.00 PM
Tabea Steiner mit dem Kollektiv HOT
Ostschweizer Literaturgespräch #18
DenkBar
St. Gallen
Events
07.00 PM
Die Stickerin
Margrit Schriber
Bibliothek Buchs SG
Buchs SG
Journal
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
David Bosc, La Claire Fontaine: David Bosc’s «La Claire Fontaine» is a novel about a painter, Gustave Courbet. It is also a book about Lake Léman captured by the eye of a painter. And it is the story of an exile. Sought by the authorities for having taken part in the Paris Commune, Courbet leaves Ornans for Switzerland in 1873. This novel spanning Courbet’s last years pulses with a foolhardy «revolutionary» fervour which completely takes over the painter. David Bosc has invented a pictorial language that seems to have been borrowed from the artist. Generous, crisp and funny, it paints the picture of a painter in Switzerland in bold, bright, humorous strokes.
Reading tip
Pascale Kramer, Gloria: When Michel receives a phone call from Gloria, asking him to go and see her, he knows he should say ‘no’: he shouldn’t go. Gloria belongs to his past, he was involved with her years before. He knew her at that time in his life, when he was still married and was working in an advice centre that she occasionally visited, when she was hanging out on the streets. In the meantime, Michel has been sacked by the advice centre: they said at first it was because he was being too sympathetic to clients; then he was accused of having inappropriate relationships with children.
Reading tip
Franz Hohler, Der Granitblock im Kino: A good children’s book can also be enjoyed by adults and Franz Hohler’s modern book of fairytales «Der Granitblock im Kino» is definitely one of these. The book is a fantastic read full of obscure ideas that turn the world upside-down in order to set things straight. Franz Hohler proves himself a smiling and artful teacher, who has a gift for bringing children and adults alike around to his way of looking at things. In an age when children all over the world learn English early to improve their job prospects, who would have guessed that «Made in Hong Kong» is in fact a greeting from a foreign land? Once upon a time there was a maggot (‹Made› in German) that was teased because it was smaller than the other maggots. To show everyone they were wrong to make fun, it decided to emigrate and try its luck in South-East Asia. It was very successful and established a toy factory making toys to be sold in Europe. On every toy it stamped a greeting to those back home: «Made (maggot) in Hong Kong». Today, however, this story has been forgotten. This is just one of the tales in «Der Granitblock im Kino». It is nice to go back to Hohler's stories from time to rediscover the absurdity of the way things really happened and, like Hohler’s chuckling block of granite, close the book with an exclamation of «well well, old friend!» (Beat Mazenauer, transl by Andreas Mason)
New releases
Bernhard Herold: Nationalpark Val Grande. Unterwegs in der Wildnis zwischen Domdossola und Lago Maggiore. Rotpunktverlag.
New releases
Katharina Geiser: Die Wünsche gehören uns. Roman. Jung und Jung.
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