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23-02-2025
Cosmo Zauberkater: Der Fluch der magischen Pfote
Barbara Rosslow
Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal
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23-02-2025
Die Schlittenfabelwelt
Janine Hofstetter
Kulturmuseum St.Gallen
St. Gallen
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23-02-2025
Wie lange ist nie mehr
Doris Büchel
TAK Theater Liechtenstein
Schaan
Events
23-02-2025
Sofalesung mit Laura Leupi
Laura Leupi, Sarina Tharayil
Wird bei der Anmeldung bekannt gegeben
Basel
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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
Arno Camenisch, The Alp: Marvelling at the beauty of the mountain scenery, the tourists hike past the Alpine chalet in their red socks, stopping to take photos of the Alpine herdsman standing outside. Cleaning their hiking boots in the fountain, they do not think that the fountain is here for more than just decoration. During the summer four Alpinists share this mountain lodge and the work on the Alp Stavonas at the foot of Piz Sez Ner. It is obvious who is in charge among the men. This is repeatedly confirmed by visitors from the lower valley: they even enjoy a drink with the head farmer, yet shake the hand of his assistant, slap the cowherd on the shoulders and nod to the swineherd. This seems to be the right order of things.
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Michail Schischkin, Maidenhair: Why have you claimed asylum? The narrator constantly has to ask this question in Russian. He works as an interpreter for the Swiss immigration agency. Day after day he translates the stories of his suffering compatriots. He too is an immigrant who has lost his family: after a difficult divorce his interactions with his son are limited to letters. The rest of his time he immerses himself in reading: «Anabasis», a historical work of Xenophon, and the (fictitious) diaries of the (real) Russian singer Isabella Juriewa (1899-2000). Russia, Switzerland, Italy – all countries where he spends time – and France, where Isabella Juriewa lived intermittently: other people’s stories, the narrators own memories as well as testimonials of times past mingle to form a polyphonic novel. The author brilliantly interweaves different storylines and basic human themes, but also love and art. «Maidenhair» shows people from their worst and also from their most beautiful side – masterly and touching. The Russian author Michail Schischkin, who lives in Switzerland, is known internationally for his novels, which were translated into fourteen languages, and he has been awarded the three most prestigious Russian literary prizes. (Ruth Gantert, trans. by Simon Froehling)
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Peter Bichsel, Kolumnen Kolumnen: Peter Bichsel has been writing literary columns for Swiss newspapers and magazines since 1975. In their entirety, they make up his secret magnum opus. More than 300 of these miniatures, spanning thirty years, have now been published in a thick volume under the title «Columns Columns». It proves that they retain an astonishing freshness far beyond quotidian events. In short texts, Bichsel tells stories of our ever-changing everyday and of our days of change. «The times have changed, only the times,» he writes as early as 1977, bracing himself against possible disappointments at the hand of political and social developments. This cautiousness hints at the fact that, on the bottom of the often humoristic anecdotes, scepticism resonates – coupled with a lack of illusions regarding his writing not being able to make a difference. Seemingly contradictory phrasings form the literary salt of these texts. They are the hallmark of a storyteller, who likes to lead his readers up the garden path of irritation, in order to let them find their way out by themselves. The equally cunning and careful contemplations lend Bichsel’s columns the voice of humanity, which prevents the author from becoming a lone cynic. Instead, he seeks to engage in a dialogue in which consent can be reached on the level of discourse and a shared language. Because that is exactly where the nucleus of democracy lies, which Peter Bichsel vouches for in his columns. (Beat Mazenauer, translation by Simon Froehling)
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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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