Lesung mit Linard Bardill

Linard Bardill and Lorenzo Custer paint a surprising portrait of a motorway in »A13 – Stories of Hurrying and Lingering«. It is almost two hundred kilometres long, the A13, and connects the St. Gallen Rhine Valley with Ticino. For many, it is a non-place, nothing more than a necessary evil. Linard Bardill and Lorenzo Custer also drove along the north-south motorway for years, each on their own paths, without stopping. It was only when the storyteller from Domleschg and the landscape calligrapher from Malcantone met by chance that they began to search for stories and secrets on the edges of the A13. They have found what they are looking for in the Untervaz cement plant and in the Verrucano quarry in Mels, they have discovered the traces of Nietzsche in Splügen and those of St. Nepomuk in Oberrealta, they have found a Neapolitan pizzaiolo in Buffalora and happiness in the Rheintal service station. With their stories and drawings, they illustrate that the A13 consists of an incredible amount more than just concrete and bitumen.

Linard Bardill, born in Chur in 1956, switched from the pulpit to the stage soon after completing his theology studies and from then on devoted himself to theatre, writing and music. Over the course of about forty years, he created over a hundred artistic works: music albums, plays, stage programs, poetry collections, novels and children's books. Having received many awards, including the Salzburger Stier (1990), the German Record Critics' Prize (1993 as a soloist, 2009 together with Pippo Pollina) and the Swiss Television Prize (2005), Bardill is now one of the most successful personalities on the Swiss cultural scene.

Lorenzo Custer, born in 1945, lives as an architect (ETH) in Malcantone and has been dealing with the relationship between architecture and landscape for decades. For the reconstruction of two villages in the Centovalli, he was awarded a Prix Européen d'Architecture Philippe Rotthier. His drawings have been exhibited several times.