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Poetologischer Input. Leif Randt spricht über sein…
Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg

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

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Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg, AMSEL, Klagenfurt…
Aargauer Literaturhaus Lenzburg
Lenzburg

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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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Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Quarry: Friedrich Dürrenmatt liked to write crime novels that seem to follow the usual crime fiction plots only to turn into an absurd farce. This is what happens in «Der Verdacht»: terminally ill inspector Bärlach suspects Dr Emmenberger, head physician of the famous Sonnenstein Clinic in Zurich, is hiding a dark past. He believes Emmenberger worked as a doctor in a concentration camp under a false name during the Nazi period and carried out operations without anaesthetic. In order to substantiate these suspicions, Bärlach checks himself into Emmenberger’s clinic under a false name. At the clinic he is finally able to uncover the truth about the head physician. However, Emmenberger has seen through his plan and threatens to kill the inspector if he is not able to have as much faith in Emmenberger’s ability to heal him as he does in freedom and crime. It seems the inspector will be forced to remain silent when the Jew, Gulliver turns up as the deus ex machina come to free the inspector from his predicament… In all of his crime novels, Dürrenmatt subjects his characters to chance, which always scuppers their plans, no matter how carefully they proceed. In «Der Verdacht», the perpetrator knows in advance that the inspector is going to set a trap for him by checking into his clinic under a false name. (Rudolf Probst, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt) also in: F. Drürrenmatt, Novels. Picador Books 1985.

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Guido Bachmann, Zeit und Ewigkeit: :::::: COMING TO COME ::::::::

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Peter Bichsel, Stories for Children: Peter Bichsel is a master of short prose forms. His probably most successful work and one of the most translated books of Swiss German-language literature, his «Stories for Children», was published in 19969 and early on in the author’s career. It is made up of short narrations which are only seemingly meant for children – or certainly not only. Some of the volume’s stories could be classified as national folkstories, should such a counterpart to the folksong exist, like the tale entitled «There Is No Such Place As America» (which was convincingly enacted as a rock ballade by the famous Swiss Band «Züri West») or the story of the man who wants to encircle the globe in as straight a line as possible. Bichsel’s children’s stories are distinguished by their playfulness and seeming simplicity. The play with language itself becomes the topic of some of the stories. When the old man in «A Table Is A Table» decides that everything has to change, but, as nothing happens, begins to swap words around, calling the table «carpet», we are faced with wordplay in the sense of the late Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bichsel invokes philosophical questions in his «Stories for Children»: how do I know what I believe to know? What do I actually mean when I say something? How do I know that others understand what I’m saying? (Rudolf Probst, trans. by Simon Froehling)

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Angelika Waldis: Hier. Dort. Fort.. Atlantis Literatur.

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Angelika Waldis: Aufräumen. Atlantis Literatur.

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