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Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich

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03.00 PM
Geschichtenfenster – lauschen und entdecken
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Landesmuseum Zürich
Zürich

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07.00 PM
Tabea Steiner mit dem Kollektiv HOT
Ostschweizer Literaturgespräch #18
DenkBar
St. Gallen

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07.00 PM
Die Stickerin
Margrit Schriber
Bibliothek Buchs SG
Buchs SG

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

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Meteor: Alongside «Besuch der alten Dame» and «Physikern», «Der Meteor» is one of Dürrenmatt’s most well known and successful plays. In it, the playwright tells the story of the death of the nobel prize winner Wolfgang Schwitter, who actually finds he is unable to die and repeatedly gets back up. In dying, he drags the people surrounding him along with him to the grave. Dürrenmatt’s play, which was performed for the first time in the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1966 with Leonhard Steckel in the leading role, is above all a satire on the contemporary literature business and on the other hand a piece of theatre dealing with religion and philosophy, which transposes the scandal of resurrection into the 20th century and throws light on it from the perspective of the psychology of the individual, dramatizing it through the eyes of Schwitter and in the reaction of his entourage. It is actually a modern-day story of Lazarus. As a child, Dürrenmatt was fascinated by the biblical story of Jesus resurrecting the dead Lazarus. As he wrote in his autobiography «Stoffe», he asked his father, a pastor, if Lazarus were able to believe that he was dead. With this play in 1966, Dürrenmatt returns to the questions of religion that characterised his early work. Well worth another read! (Rudolf Probst, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

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David Bosc, La Claire Fontaine: David Bosc’s «La Claire Fontaine» is a novel about a painter, Gustave Courbet. It is also a book about Lake Léman captured by the eye of a painter. And it is the story of an exile. Sought by the authorities for having taken part in the Paris Commune, Courbet leaves Ornans for Switzerland in 1873. This novel spanning Courbet’s last years pulses with a foolhardy «revolutionary» fervour which completely takes over the painter. David Bosc has invented a pictorial language that seems to have been borrowed from the artist. Generous, crisp and funny, it paints the picture of a painter in Switzerland in bold, bright, humorous strokes.

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Dana Grigorcea, Baba Rada: Time has stood still beneath the dwarf nut tree. Baba Rada reads an evil fate in the cards, while dead Antim crawls into a tree hollow, Ileana becomes engaged and the old red beard finally buries his head in the reeds. In her debut novel, “Baba Rada”, Dana Grigorcea allows her characters to act in a narrative space whose horizons fade away in the glittering summer light or icy cold. In the Romanian Danube Delta, the setting for her book, a hidden world seems to be a law unto itself. In the small village, hale and hearty Baba Rada keeps her family together. She grants her wish for an albino daughter with Mirabelle schnapps and magic. But a mysterious terrorist plunges everything into chaos. Dana Grigorcea’s novel is a veritable rogues gallery that is difficult to grasp and constantly reveals new stories. The “magnificent barbarism” is presented as a wild blend of fairy stories, rumours, villainy and miserable bawdiness that only appreciates good fortune in the world through legends. Life is at a standstill on the Danube island. The inhabitants have bad teeth; anyone who can escapes from here at once. But those who stay behind do not lose their will and sense of humour and sing defiant songs like “Das Leben ist vergänglich wie die Kopfhaare” (“Life is as fleeting as the hairs on the head”). Dana Grigorcea’s idiosyncratic signature makes this book an event. She was raised bilingually in Romania and now lives in Zurich. The author succeeds in creating a ghostly prose that drenches everything in a fantastic twilight and only attains schematic contours by virtue of the language. The long titles, which are reminiscent of Baroque literature, enable her to create a resonant narrative space as she continually weaves a convoluted and obscure plot. This is precisely how “Baba Rada” gains a peculiar graphic quality coupling Burlesque comedy with ghostly precision and a hint of tragedy. The bawdy stories emerge from all of this like Baba Rada’s belching “whenever I have drunk this Russian, alcoholic shampoo”. (Beat Mazenauer)

New releases

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

New releases

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

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