Lesung mit Franz Hohler

The Electrician's Cry
Franz Hohler's new short stories are small cabinets of curiosities of everyday life. They are populated by countless special creatures, a whole bestiary of animal, non-animal and almost-animal forms: There is, for example, a bird that only exists when it is not seen. Or a whale in the animal hospital. There is the great burden of freight trains, which always have to serve man. There is the luminous omnipresence of cranes at night and an iron dog clattering through the streets. There are suction excavators and dwarf planets, stuttering electric toothbrushes, a book in a library that has not been borrowed for decades, a cat at the bedside of a dying man - and there is the one craftsman who should never scream: the electrician.

Franz Hohler was born in Biel, Switzerland, in 1943. He now lives in Zurich and is considered one of the most important storytellers of his country. Hohler has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Alice Salomon Prize and the Johann Peter Hebel Prize. His work has been published by Luchterhand Literaturverlag for over fifty years.

Advance booking

Admission: Fr. 20.–, with customer card Fr. 15.–