Reading with Franz Hohler

Description

The Electrician's Scream
The new short stories by Franz Hohler are small cabinets of wonders of everyday life. They are inhabited by countless special creatures, a whole bestiary of animal, non-animal, and almost-animal figures: There is, for example, a bird that only exists when it is not seen. Or a whale in the animal hospital. There is the heavy burden of freight trains, which must always serve humans. There is the glowing omnipresence of cranes at night and an iron dog that clatters through the streets. There are suction dredgers and dwarf planets, stuttering electric toothbrushes, a book not borrowed for decades in a library, a cat at the bedside of a dying person - and there is the one craftsman who should never scream: the electrician. Franz Hohler was born in 1943 in Biel, Switzerland. He lives today 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 for over fifty years by Luchterhand Literaturverlag.

Highlights

• Reading from "The Electrician's Scream"
• Author and cabaret artist Franz Hohler
• Venue: Bücher Lüthy St. Gallen

General Information

Franz Hohler, one of Switzerland's most important storytellers, presents his new short stories in St. Gallen. The reading offers insights into his imaginative stories that reflect everyday life in a special way.

Location

Multergasse 41, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

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