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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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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)

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Dorothee Elmiger, Invitation to the Bold of Heart: Born in 1985, Dorothee Elmiger makes a fascinatingly fearless debut as a novelist. «Einladung an die Waghalsigen» (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) explores paths that lie far away from the mainstream and develops a poetic pertinacity. Margarete Stein is sitting at her kitchen table reading – and reading. She lives right above the police station which is headed by her father who is a police commander. The mother ran away long ago. She reads and her sister Fritzi wanders about the area. Together they search for a mysterious river called Buenaventura. In an attempt to write a chronicle the sisters jot down everything they observe, explore, hope, wish for. In her «novel» Dorothee Elmiger does not arrange all these explorations into a closed frame, rather, she presents them in the form of singular particles and fragments that oscillate between close observation, inner perception and read up quotations. There is a certain unrest spinning inside her text, an unrest that reflects the quest for one’s own wishes and for a purpose in life. Elmiger’s poetic novel is like a intensely smouldering fire that cannot be controlled. Its musical and linguistic structure reveals a certain obstinacy and poetic audacity. All this makes the book a surprising debut and an invitation to curiosity. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)

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Zsuzsanna Gahse, Durch und durch: Zsuzsanna Gahse sits at the window – like E.T.A. Hoffmann’s cousin once sat at the corner window –and looks out onto the street. The street leads from east to west through the village of Müllheim. It’s more by chance that Zsuzsanna Gahse lives here. She stayed on to observe how other travellers are passing through and onwards – perhaps bound for America. The space by the window is therefore also a place to think about travel. The imagination roams free. The Huns are approaching from the East with Napoleon seated high on his horse drawing near them from the West. In-between are precise, focused images of the village surroundings. When precisely viewed, there is “an amazing quantity of unexplained things”. The observer is therefore standing at the window and counting the traffic – up to 121 vehicles within a space of ten minutes. She is very precise. And she observes the villagers of Müllheim. Gradually, she warms to them, because she knows what they are doing and how they cross the street. She has an insight into village news. She knows the stories and gossip as well as tales from collective memory such as the one about the Spaniard, Alfonso, and the little grey poodle, whose soul is possessed by the devil. Directly opposite her window is a square with a lime tree – a wonderful village backdrop for a human comedy. Anyone who crosses this square is instantly transformed into Columbine, Pantalone or whoever else has a part to play in the Commedia dell’Arte. Zsuzsanna Gahse’s village tales are precise miniatures that evolve into world theatre from seemingly modest beginnings. Müllheim may merely be a transitory location, but it is also a hub of the world – right here, where Zsuzsanna Gahse lives, where she observes and writes. Only those who stay behind and watch know the madness of travel. (Beat Mazenauer)

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Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.

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Joanna Yulla Kluge: David Pablo. lectorbooks.

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