“starting with Hats? I didn’t hear you,” said Peter Bichsel on the first question and had a laugh and the whole audience on his side. This remained so, even on the stage in Zurich cosmos, where no less than four women of the old masters paid homage to: presenter, Sieglinde Geisel, who has just brought Bichsel, a conversation book in the Kampa-publishing, as well as the Young authors Dorothee Elmiger, Nora Gomringer and Julia Weber.
you read classic Bichsel-stories (“a table is A table”) and reported from the time of their own “ego” – with Nora Gomringer very early, and her mother, in the bubble bath, lying down and with cigarette holder in mouth, and read to the five-year Bichsel.
in Most cases, but the trigger of the verb I (which covers the whole of Switzerland) language itself, as we know it, nasal and hesitant, with long pauses. For example, that it is racist to believe people sub-group terms. “Children” is such a term. the literature for children? For Adults? This is nonsense. “”Ulysses” by James Joyce is a book exclusively for readers of “Ulysses” by James Joyce.” His stories, no children’s stories, but child, were thinking models – the Lust for languages is the secret, the Without of things, the idea that everything could be different.
Simple stories
Young at heart his stories, even the very old. Bichsel himself had hoped, “Three Marginal explain Candide would be democracy” or “Swiss Switzerland” of 1968, now long incomprehensible texts. But they are still. He was a “Visionary”, it was agreed him, to which he countered: “It is easy to be Visionary in a country that does not have visions.”
The reading the authors he was more mischievous than strictly: “you search the content. The search is in vain.” Stories have no content, they were “meant to be” stories, nothing else. And one of the most famous told the “Jodok greetings”, in the Name of a not-existent uncle Jodok Jandl arrest all the vowels occupied (“Onkol Jodok word ons bosochon, or East on goschotor Monn”), then all the nouns.
In a story like this is after three sets of clear, as you go further – he had, therefore, at the time of writing, afraid that someone come before: “anybody could write.” Not, dear Peter Bichsel. Therefore, its child-philosophical texts unique in the German-speaking literature, and uniquely his, now sadly rare appearances.
The complete event is on www.yourstage.live available.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 10.01.2019, 15:04 PM
