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Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg
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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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Allegro Pastell
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.
Reading tip
Katharina Geiser, Diese Gezeiten: In 1940 the German armed forces occupied the Channel Island of Jersey to the dismay of two artists who had settled there some time previously in order to escape the unrest in Paris. The Nazis' conduct is comparatively restrained but the dictatorship and discrimination are omnipresent, so Lucy Schwob and Suzette Malherbe begin to resist. They design posters and display them in public – until they are found out. Katharina Geiser's novel takes up this astonishing subject matter and weaves an atmospheric and very convincing story. The narrative tells of personal courage and the price to pay for it. It is its subtle nuances that make this novel. Not all of the inhabitants of Jersey were courageous, and not all Germans were despicable henchmen. Some «saw and heard nothing». Geiser imagines what happens to the two friends after their arrest. The voice of the narrator blends with the inner voices of Lucy and Suzanne in a delicately orchestrated narrative. They remain faithful to their strategy even in moments of danger by resisting the Germans through wordplay. This does not stop them being sentenced to death, but the end of the war chases the Germans from the island just in time. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
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Reto Hänny, Flug: The welcoming chatter of the guests suddenly falls silent. The boy, who was just loudly pretending to be an airplane, watches as his irritated great uncle breaks his funfair propeller forever. A minor childhood trauma, which, however, results in the grown narrator, who is on an alpine flight, to set off unstoppably down memory lane. In his second novel, Reto Hänny elaborately strings various fragments together: from a childhood in the mountains, school years in Ruch (an anagram of Chur, the capital of the Swiss Canton of Grisons, which was eponymous for Hänny’s debut novel «Ruch»), right up to the youth unrests of the 1980s and the subsequent police repression. «It could have easily been like that: driven from the mountains to the city and so forth.» Thus the author continues dreaming about flying with both open and sceptical eyes – while also recounting the history of aviation and its progress by the example of the French aviation pioneer Blériot. But we are not faced with the inflated hero of a record flight across the English Channel of 1909. Because flight also always the crash landing. And so fantasy lets smashes the author in his alpine aircraft to pieces in the fog. Hänny ends his «Flight» novel with a single, nebulous and equivocal word: ‹submerged›. (Severin Perrig, trans. by Simon Froehling)
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Kuno Raeber, Das Ei: The first-person narrator is sitting in a café in Rome just opposite the Lateran and ponders over a white sheet of paper. He is thinking about the shameful act of Laszlo Toth. In 1972 Toth had damaged the Pietà in the Vatican with a hammer and had thereby pre-empted the first-person narrator. So the latter can only repeat the inglorious act and make it “more complete and more perfect” through words. “The Egg”, this fascinating, extravagant testimony of an effusive passion is the fantastically meandering tale about the desire to extinguish Maria – representative of the woman and the mother – and with her the very own existence as a son. The narrator then imagines himself into the line of succession of Christian martyrs. Yearning for freedom, at the same time captive in the realm of mothers he dreams of a brotherly community. Raeber’s novel is one big shrill outcry against the motherly, Marian institution. The desperate rebellion against woman paired with a male-mythical rapture in this prose is oddly anachronistic. However, the author manages to absorb this anachronistic dimension through a pompous language that brings forth the holy gravity and the rebellious spirit. No one mirrors the inner turmoil between discipline and debauchery as Raeber does, a turmoil that for a long time characterised the Catholic milieu of Central Switzerland. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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