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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
Zora del Buono
Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal
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25-02-2025
Residenzabend mit Deniz Ohde
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg, AMSEL, Klagenfurt…
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Lenzburg
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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
Hansjörg Schertenleib, Wald aus Glas: In «Forest of Glass», an old woman and a young woman meet. One is in search of her happier past, while the other flees from a future she fears. The two women could not be more different.
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Michelle Steinbeck, Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch: A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck. A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels. Thus starts Michelle Steinbeck’s unusual, poetic novella about a young woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Loribeth and her suitcase begin an odyssey through a variety of nightmarish locations such as the violent and foul-smelling red town, and a ship traversing a turbulent sea. On her journey she encounters various characters and has to choose between two men. She picks Fridolin and moves into a rotting house on a cliff edge with him and his sister Mabel. But when Loribeth finally reunites with her father, he questions her choice of domestic happiness. Does she really want to spend her life with Fridolin before she has seen more of the world? After this encounter, Loribeth perceives her life as nothing but a deadening routine. Escape seems to be the only way out. But the sleeping pills she takes in a suicide attempt have no effect, and in the end Loribeth steals Fridolin’s car and takes off into the night on another journey. In this fantastical novella, Steinbeck depicts her protagonist’s unsettled state of mind in poetic and energetic prose. The disturbing people and places Loribeth encounters in search of her father convey her sense of dislocation in and alienation from the world at large. Surreal elements are reminiscent of the writing of Kafka, but also of a vogue of new young writers such as Valerie Fritsch or Teresa Präauer. Steinbeck subverts the conventions of the fairy tale to deal with the psychological state of a girl growing up with a troubled relationship to her family. Her imaginative approach and lyrical style of expression make for a different kind of coming-of-age novel and a striking debut. (Source: New Books in German 40/2016)
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Jonas Lüscher, Frühling der Barbaren: Preising is a Swiss factory owner, in his mid-50s and somewhat lazy. He’s on a business trip, staying in a luxurious oasis hotel in Tunisia, the ‘Thousand and One Nights Resort’, where he watches the lavish preparations for a wedding. Rich young Englishmen from London’s financial sector have invited friends and family to a huge, riotous celebration. «Young people in their late 20s and early 30s…noisy and self-confident…slim and in the peak of condition.»
New releases
Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.
New releases
Roman Kurzmeyer: Sammlung Ricola. Gegenwart und Geschichte. Scheidegger & Spiess.
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