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Events
22-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
Events
22-02-2025
Il était une fois – contes et histoires
Anne-Lise Latouche-Hallé
Bibliothek Zug
Zug
Events
22-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
Events
23-02-2025
Cosmo Zauberkater: Der Fluch der magischen Pfote
Barbara Rosslow
Kantonsbibliothek Baselland
Liestal
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
Roman Graf, Niedergang: A young Berlin couple set off on a tour through the Swiss mountains. André and Louise intend to climb high and seem well prepared for their adventure. Yet, the closer they get to the top, the further apart they drift. Roman Graf’s novel plays out the old theme of man’s existential encounter with mountains. Vigour and strength of will, but also the inner turmoil of his hero are reflected in his powerful but poetic writing.
Reading tip
Roland Buti, Le Milieu de l’horizon: With a power reminiscent of some of Faulkner’s works, in his novel «Le Milieu de l’horizon» Roland Buti takes us to the small world of a farm in French-speaking Switzerland. Strange and powerful forces are at work under the surface and they are set to destabilise the family life of Gus, a thirteen year-old boy, who terrified and powerless watches a threefold collapse : of traditional agriculture, his parent’s relationship and the innocence of his childhood. All of this takes place in 1967 during the famous drought. Everything goes up in the flames of heat-wave and storm. The old mare Bagatelle finally dies. Passions burn. Everything is consumed in the flames as the author’s sober language reaches a state of incandescence. This is great literature.
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Thomas Hürlimann, Der grosse Kater: Thomas Hürlimann’s «Der grosse Kater» subjects Swiss politics to critical historical analysis in a polyphonic, subtly woven work of prose. It is a piece of political satire, philosophical reflection, autobiography and a family saga all rolled into one. The novel moves back and forth between two poles: while the President of the Swiss Confederation entertains the Spanish royal couple on a state visit, his security chief has arranged a visit for the lady to the clinic in which her son lies dying. The tragedy unfolds in a narrative spanning 20 hours, structured with chronological precision. The wife suspects her husband lies behind the shameful blunder and kicks up a diplomatic scandal. The novel’s epicentre focuses on the fringe of politics in the grey area between official representation and familiar intimacy, which ultimately destroys them both. In flashbacks that are constantly breaking through into the concentrated sequence of events, Hürlimann tells the story of a cunning tactician who will stop at nothing to get to the top. The latter’s meteoric career is influenced by a motherless home in the village blacksmith’s, upbringing in a monastery, initiation to politics in the province and male camaraderie in the military and student fraternity. Along the way, he becomes intimately familiar with the world of politics, which soon infiltrates his family life. «Der grosse Kater» plays out in the twilight between fiction and fact. Hürlimann continually makes use of cues, particularly of a biographical nature. However, thirty years after the events that underlie the novel, the author has managed expertly to free himself from the roman à clef genre through convincing literary manipulation of the truth. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)
New releases
Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.
New releases
Joanna Yulla Kluge: David Pablo. lectorbooks.
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