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08.15 PM
Bibliothek in der Rathus-Schüür
Judith Erdin
Rathus-Schüür
Baar

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26-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich

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26-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich

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26-02-2025
Tabea Steiner mit dem Kollektiv HOT
Ostschweizer Literaturgespräch #18
DenkBar
St. Gallen

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

Irena Brežná, Die undankbare Fremde: The heroine of Irena Brežná's novel 'Die undankbare Fremde' (The Ungrateful Stranger) emigrates from Czechoslovakia to Switzerland in 1968 – as did the author herself – leaving behind oppressive years under a dictatorship. In her new surroundings she encounters new freedoms, prosperity and countless comforts, but also confronts a certain incomprehension and unfamiliar rules and regulations. While the mother delights in everything, the daughter views most things critically. "I felt like an object my mother had placed in a strange house, like an underage bride of a hundred years ago being forced to marry a country as if it were a forbidding old man." Irena Brežná narrates her protagonist's story from two different perspectives and on two interwoven timescales. First we have the newly arrived young woman, confused, often angry. Then we have the trained interpreter, years older and more tolerant, who accompanies asylum seekers to court or hospital. The experiences of these refugees have been far more painful than her own. The Swiss writer Alain Claude Sulzer has called Brežná's novel "a bitter national education, but ending with a reconciliation".

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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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Jörg Müller, Alle Jahre wieder saust der Presslufthammer nieder: «When I worked on these pictures over 35 years ago, it was not my intention to indoctrinate children. Much rather, I wanted to make visible for their parents – without judgment – what our generation experienced first-handed in the uninterrupted period of belief in progress,» says Jörg Müller about the new edition of his prints, which brought him international recognition in the Seventies and for which he was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 1974.

New releases

Charles Lewinsky: Melnitz (TB). Diogenes Verlag.

New releases

Bernhard Herold: Nationalpark Val Grande. Unterwegs in der Wildnis zwischen Domdossola und Lago Maggiore. Rotpunktverlag.

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