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27-02-2025
Poetologischer Input. Leif Randt spricht über sein…
Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg

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27-02-2025
Text! - Literatur im Gespräch
Andi Schoon (Moderation: Hartmut Abendschein)
Universitätsbibliothek Bern, Bibliothek Münstergasse, Veranstaltungssaal, 1. UG
Bern

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27-02-2025
Pult: Lyrikwerkstatt im Februar
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg, AMSEL, Klagenfurt…
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Lenzburg

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27-02-2025
Allegro Pastell
Leif Randt
Korso
Fribourg

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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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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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Perikles Monioudis, Im Äther / In the Ether: The Greeks saw ether as the «quintia essenti», the fifth element, but the substance has since dissipated in natural history and the history of mind. In his lecture on poetics «In the Ether» for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the author and transmitter Perikles Monioudis outlines a short history of the ether in order to evoke another subject matter: poetry. Which, too, concerns itself with voids, empty spaces and elusiveness. The author is not concerned with the divisions between poetry and science in his juxtaposition of the two, but much rather with what connects them. «Literature as a category of knowledge acquisition,» and the ether as an aura between hard and soft empiricism. Here, science and poetry meet at a third point: in the narrating character of a radio officer who writes poetry and spends most of his time on the high seas. This radio operator seeks out resonance and frequencies to finally realize that words work like radio signals. In order to save electricity, «the rule of the smallest possible output» applies to signalling, and this is true in a similar way with poetry: the simplest word is the right word – the word that discretely evaporates in the ether. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Simon Froehling)

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Christoph Keller, Der beste Tänzer: The author Christoph Keller suffers from ‹spinal muscular atrophy› (SMA) in which case the brain gradually loses control over the locomotor system. One loses one’s freedom of movement. In «The Best Dancer» he talks about his illness. The book is not a factual report on his life, rather, it is a work of prose art. It is remarkable how brutally honest he takes stock of all the losses that followed the diagnosis ‹SMA› twenty years earlier. That same year another diagnosis was made: His father’s business went bankrupt, an event with devastating consequences for his entire family. His father’s helpless anger about it would never go away. Keller combines the two painful threads. Both the father and the spinal muscular atrophy are illnesses which he gradually learnt to deal with but which nevertheless continue to humble and anger him. He subtly differentiates between reality and fiction. Above all, he succeeds at keeping the burgeoning bitterness and shame at bay through ironic remarks. Like a dancer of stylistic sovereignty he holds his ground between the two dangerous maelstroms of his life. A book in which feelings of weakness alternate beautifully with liberating moments of happiness. (Beat Mazenauer, transl.by Anja Hälg)

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Katharina Geiser: Die Wünsche gehören uns. Roman. Jung und Jung.

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