2014
The Austrian writer and director Marlene Streeruwitz opened the festival and presented her new novel "Nachkommen".
Moderation: Gesa Schneider (Photos: © Zurich Literature Festival)
The great German cabaret artist Gerhard Polt presented "Circus Maximus" - a hand-picked selection of his best stories, plays, monologues and dialogues.
(Photos: Livio Baumgartner)
Multimedia reading by "Hüsnü", a fictional character of the Swiss director and author Güzin Kar, with music, videos and cake.
Followed by live scoring of the silent movie classic "I Don't Want to Be a Man" (1918) by Linda Vogel and Vincent Glanzmann.
(Photos: Livio Baumgartner)
Science & Fiction evening:
"Dreams of Alience", an astrophysical performance by Ben Moore, Professor of Astrophysics.
Afterwards "First contact", a spherical-scenic reading of science fiction texts with Fabienne Hadorn, Rahel Hubacher and live sounds from IOKOI (text selection: Gesa Schneider and Philipp Theisohn)
(Photos: © Zurich Literature Festival)
Reading by Teju Cole, who presented his novel "Open City". Moderation: Blas Ulibarri. German voice: Esther Becker.
(Photos: Livio Baumgartner)
"Das grosse Rauschen" – action reading by Tino Hanekamp at Kaufleuten Festsaal.
Followed by "Stauffer kann nicht gut reben, adiö Regisseur", spoken word program by Michael Stauffer, with music by Hans-Peter Pfammatter.
(Photos: © Zurich Literature Festival)
"Little Pharmacy of Love" – Literary installation by french author Isabelle Capron in the festival pavilion.
(Read here the press report in the NZZ)
"Tree of 1000 Names" – animated film installation by Cornelia Heusser (from the series "Fairy Trees")
"Radio in the park" - open air radio project with radio plays. In collaboration with Oliver Scotoni / Rundfunk.fm
"Ecstasy and excess". Silent film scoring by Linda Vogel and Vincent Glanzmann, curated by Pablo Assandri / IOIC.