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08.15 PM
Bibliothek in der Rathus-Schüür
Judith Erdin
Rathus-Schüür
Baar
26-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
26-02-2025
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich
26-02-2025
Tabea Steiner mit dem Kollektiv HOT
Ostschweizer Literaturgespräch #18
DenkBar
St. Gallen
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!
Mitteilung 2024-06-26 [Bachmann-Preis]: Statt Fussball 3 Tage lang Literatur gucken: Heute starten die diesjährigen «Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur».
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.
Mitteilung 2024-06-21 [Literaturfestival Zürich]: Nicht verpassen: Vom 8.-14.7.24 steigt wieder das Literaturfestival Zürich.
Mitteilung 2024-06-17 [Stiftung Lydia Eymann Literaturstipendium]: Bis 30.6.24 bewerben fürs Stipendium der Lydia Eymann Stiftung.
Mitteilung 2024-06-11 [Markus Bundi «Wilde Tiere»]: Beat Mazenauer bespricht «Wilde Tiere» von Markus Bundi für Viceversaliteratur.ch.
Michael Hugentobler, Louis oder Der Ritt auf der Schildkröte: Michael Hugentobler’s fantastical debut is the picaresque yarn of a pocket-sized Swiss braggart, who convinced the world that he was a French aristocrat and had spent years living with indigenous people in Australia. Initially feted by the world’s press, he ends up exposed and humiliated; but in this moving story of self-reinvention, nothing he said was wholly untrue. Born months premature, Hans Roth comes into the world very small, and stays that way. Growing up in an impoverished farming hamlet in nineteenth-century Switzerland, Hans is picked on by the other children. His parents are drunk and neglectful, and young Hans soon runs away with the gypsies and reinvents himself. He falls in with an English aristocrat, from whom he acquires some fine manners and a taste for the high life. He also gives himself a new name, Louis de Montesanto, and starts to spin ever taller tales for their mutual amusement. His many adventures include working as a grand but wayward butler in London and New York; but his most significant move takes him to Australia. The itch to travel drives him out of his job there and, via a misjudged escapade trying to make a fortune from pearls, into the Outback. Here the seminal experience of his life occurs. Together with two indigenous men, he walks for months in the desert to the remote home of their clan. He lives with them for years, marries and has a daughter, but feels increasingly trapped and isolated. He goes all but mad, kills one of the others, and walks off into the desert. Montesanto ends up in London, where he tells much-embellished stories to the press and the Royal Society. He is celebrated and briefly rich, living in a suite at the Savoy, until his flights of fancy – about riding tortoises and fighting sharks – bring him down. He dies destitute and homeless on the streets of Hackney. Louis de Montesanto is a sophisticated addition to the ranks of picaresque heroes in the literary canon, from Tristram Shandy onwards. (Recommended by New Books in German)
Philippe Rahmy, Béton armé: «Shanghai is not a city. This is not the word that comes to mind. Nothing comes. Then astonishment at the noise. Noise like the ocean or an engine of war. A tumult, an infinity of perspectives, angles and surfaces amplifying the racket.» The man who dedicates himself to that megalomaniac colossus Shanghai in «Reinforced Concrete» – and does so with all his senses, especially his sense of rhythm and the sound of words – is forty years old and severely disabled since birth.
Isolde Schaad, Keiner wars: 1968 is long gone, the baby-boomer generation has aged, tired and lost a good number of its illusions. While some still hold up some brave old ideal, others appease their consciences by separating their paper from their plastic and not eating meat. Marxism-Leninism often turned out to have been elite training for a comfortable career. Remembering those glorious times and complaining about depraved consumerism offer comfort for days gone by. Isolde Schaad knows this generation first hand. Her stories, which she serves up with relish, confirm such notions and prejudices – without exposing the protagonists to ridicule. In Carola's flatshare even the «notorious goody-goody» Schorsch has internalized ideas about social womanhood. And Madeleine's neurotic episodes, with which she feverishly does battle on the exercise machine, are not just down to nostalgia. «Keiner wars» takes a keen, witty look at the after-effects of the '68 generation. Isolde Schaad does this with relish, but without malice. Everyone gets what is coming to them. Each generation threatens to lose its vigour when youthful hopes are gobbled up by time. Lucky are those who can confront the sad truth with as much wit as this author. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
Charles Lewinsky: Melnitz (TB). Diogenes Verlag.
Bernhard Herold: Nationalpark Val Grande. Unterwegs in der Wildnis zwischen Domdossola und Lago Maggiore. Rotpunktverlag.
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