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etkbooks store
Bern

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"Der Letzte löscht das Licht"
Tobias Aeschbacher
Stadtbibliothek Biel
Biel

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Lesung und Gespräch: Queer Kids
Christina Caprez, Moderation: Sara Boy
Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek
Aarau

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Madame Phishères Boudoir Bizzarre
Andrea Fischer Schulthess
Millers
Zürich

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

Hans Schumacher, Die Stunde der Gaukler: Hans Schumacher's novel is a true find. It tells the story of Tatorimi, a jester and impressionist who, finding himself embroiled in the machinery of a totalitarian regime, makes it his personal quest to defeat the system from the inside. Schumacher presents a brilliant anatomy of totalitarian power and its apparatus of «correcters» by revealing the functioning of its «aesthetic and spirit» and concluding that such a system cannot be fought by passivity or towing the line: it has to be met with resistance, violently knocked out of keel and eliminated. The juggler to whom this task falls does not really represent a single individual, but rather a collective rising up in rebellion. With no interest in fame and acknowledgement and free of any personal longing for power, he thus sacrifices himself to his cause. Schumachers' novel combines parable-like generalisation with stylistic precision to allow striking insights into the psychological workings of fascist rule. The novel closes with a passionate appeal to all fools and jesters, and to everyone's sense of honour: don't let us become the lackeys of power! (Beat Mazenauer, transl by Andrea Mason)

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Max Huwyler (Text), Dieter Leuenberger (Ill.), Die Stadtgartenschnecke: Max Huwyler and Dieter Leuenberger’s story of the snail residing in the municipal park tells of our impatience when things do not turn out the way we want them to: after the long-awaited storm the snail starts off on its way. Where to, perhaps even she does not know. All across Zurich, past little girls, underneath moving trucks and right onto the tracks of the tramline 7. On these she crawls out of town, until a tram nears from behind ... The snail is lucky. The tram driver stops and gets out of his cabin, despite indignant passengers and the traffic jam he thus produces. What he does next is not written in any instructional handbook for tram drivers. He bends down to the snail and talks to it: «The people want to go home. They don’t carry their houses on their backs like you.» He speaks slowly and clearly, because he thinks the snail would not understand otherwise. Max Huwyler tells a philosophical story about urban haste and natural slowness, about the mundane and the surreal. Leuenberger illustrates with large-format, photorealistic images heightened by light effects and surprising perspectives. A picture book to philosophise about snails and small events together, and a book which changes one’s view of everyday life. (Berenice Geser, translation by Simon Froehling)

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Ruth Schweikert, Wie wir älter werden: Ruth Schweikert’s novel «How We Grow Old» is a fine and richly orchestrated portrait of family life, which reflects the many facets of both world history and the modern age. Two Swiss families, the Brunolds and the Seitzes, are the focus of the story, bound together from the 1950s right down to the present by a secret, which only the parents know about. Ruth Schweikert received the .

New releases

Milena Moser: Schreiben. Eine Ermutigung. Kein & Aber.

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Anne Funck: Mein magisches Museum und Vincent van Gogh. Léman Publishing Claudia Frankl.

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