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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
Zora del Buono
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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Catalin D. Florescu, Der kurze Weg nach Hause: «The Centre of the World» is a topical collection of thought-provoking stories about migration. The nine stories in the book were written between 2001 and 2016 and are connected by themes of migration and a shared sense of unease. They examine the impact of the mass movement of people on individual lives and illustrate the resilience required to overcome hardship. In each story, characters restricted by the scope of their problematic lives seek to find relief as the world around them moves in a new direction. Motifs of departure and loss, transit and new beginnings recur throughout the collection. In the title story the narrator recounts leaving Romania as a child. He recalls a chance meeting that leads his family to settle in Switzerland instead of travelling any further. ‘We were good migrants from the start,’ he says, 'you can’t tell we’re foreigners’. But he still needs to translate his emotions into the language of his youth in order to grasp them properly. He regards both countries with mixed feelings, finding it difficult to call either one his home and defining himself by his sense of loss and yearning to belong. Another story looks at the effects of migration on those who are left behind. A child grows up with his Romanian grandmother while his parents are forced to go abroad to earn a living. Later on, with practically no family left, he considers migrating himself. He encounters a young Syrian refugee trying to cross the border into Europe. They share the same goals although their circumstances could hardly be more different. Florescu is a master storyteller, justly celebrated for his poetic language. He gets very close to his characters, demonstrating a deep understanding of their human predicament and succeeding in finding a different voice for each individual story. Like Colum McCann, Florescu writes moving tales of lonely people stranded in everyday life, melancholic stories which touch on the big issues of our time. (Recommended by New Books in German)

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Katharina Geiser, Diese Gezeiten: In 1940 the German armed forces occupied the Channel Island of Jersey to the dismay of two artists who had settled there some time previously in order to escape the unrest in Paris. The Nazis' conduct is comparatively restrained but the dictatorship and discrimination are omnipresent, so Lucy Schwob and Suzette Malherbe begin to resist. They design posters and display them in public – until they are found out. Katharina Geiser's novel takes up this astonishing subject matter and weaves an atmospheric and very convincing story. The narrative tells of personal courage and the price to pay for it. It is its subtle nuances that make this novel. Not all of the inhabitants of Jersey were courageous, and not all Germans were despicable henchmen. Some «saw and heard nothing». Geiser imagines what happens to the two friends after their arrest. The voice of the narrator blends with the inner voices of Lucy and Suzanne in a delicately orchestrated narrative. They remain faithful to their strategy even in moments of danger by resisting the Germans through wordplay. This does not stop them being sentenced to death, but the end of the war chases the Germans from the island just in time. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)

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Julia Weber, Immer ist alles schön: A beautiful debut about a struggling single mother, „All Is Well Here“ considers how lonely and frightening life can be both as a cild and as an adult. The novel tells the story of Anais, her brother Bruno and their mother Maria, who is different from other mothers. It starts with a holiday on a campsite where Maria abandons her children to go dancing. After the family returns home, the reader learns about their life through a series of episodes recounted by Anais. It soon becomes apparent that the mother is troubled in a lot of ways and that she is battling with alcoholism. Eventually Maria walks out, leaving the children on their own. Anais and Bruno retreat further into an imaginative game in which they recreate natural landscapes from within their apartment. Fantasy and reality flow into each other until they become one. The novel ends with the authorities breaking into the flat to get to the children. Weber writes in a distinctive, ethereal prose using carefully-chosen language to convey the puzzling complexity of a child's view of the world. (Recommended by New Books in German, Issue 42/2017)

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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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