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Fabiano Alborghetti,

Carole Allamand,

Urs Allemann

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Guido Bachmann,

Jean-Luc Benoziglio,

Sibylle Berg,

Bern ist überall,

Donata Berra,

Clo Duri Bezzola,

Peter Bichsel,

S. Corinna Bille,

Hans Boesch,

Giovanni Bonalumi,

David Bosc,

Nicolas Bouvier,

Anne Brécart,

Irena Brežná,

Lukas Bärfuss,

Katja Brunner,

Ernst Burren,

Julien Burri,

Roland Buti

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Arno Camenisch,

Alex Capus,

Maurice Chappaz,

Gaston Cherpillod,

Jacques Chessex,

Anita Siegfried (Text),

Claudia de Weck (Ill.),

Martina Clavadetscher,

David Collin,

Nicolas Couchepin

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Flurin Darms,

Massimo Daviddi,

Martin R. Dean,

Zora del Buono,

Max Huwyler (Text),

Dieter Leuenberger (Ill.),

Franz Dodel,

Elvira Dones,

Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

Ralph Dutli

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Dorothee Elmiger,

Lisa Elsässer

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Urs Faes,

Luisa Famos,

Andrea Fazioli,

Michael Fehr,

Anna Felder,

Felice Filippini,

Catalin D. Florescu,

Eleonore Frey,

Ursula Fricker,

Alexandre Friederich,

Max Frisch

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Zsuzsanna Gahse,

Katharina Geiser,

Massimo Gezzi,

Andrea Gianinazzi,

Dagny Gioulami,

Eugen Gomringer,

Nora Gomringer,

Roman Graf,

Dana Grigorcea

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Heinz Helle,

Reto Hänny,

Franz Hohler,

Thomas Hürlimann,

Michael Hugentobler,

Sandra Hughes

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Felix Philipp Ingold

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Anja Jardine,

Hanna Johansen

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Lorenz Pauli (Text),

Kathrin Schärer (Ill.),

Christoph Keller,

Birgit Kempker,

Pascale Kramer,

Thilo Krause,

Agota Kristof,

Tim Krohn,

Robert Walser (Text),

Käthi Bhend (Ill.),

Meral Kureyshi

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Monique Laederach,

Rolf Lappert,

Doris Lecher,

Pedro Lenz,

Pierre Lepori,

Eva Maria Leuenberger,

Gertrud Leutenegger,

Hugo Loetscher,

Catherine Louis,

Jonas Lüscher

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Urs Mannhart,

Pietro de Marchi,

Plinio Martini,

Grytzko Mascioni,

Mariella Mehr,

Jérôme Meizoz,

Klaus Merz,

Michel Mettler,

Jörg Müller,

Gianna Molinari,

Perikles Monioudis,

Adolf Muschg

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Andreas Neeser,

Jens Nielsen

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Angelika Overath

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Andri Peer,

Oscar Peer,

Anne Perrier,

Rut Plouda,

Marius Daniel Popescu,

Dubravko Pušek,

Fabio Pusterla

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Philippe Rahmy,

Dragica Rajčić,

Ilma Rakusa,

Nicolas Robel,

Antonio Rossi,

Gustave Roud,

Anna Ruchat,

Simona Ryser

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Catherine Safonoff,

Isolde Schaad,

Hansjörg Schertenleib,

Michail Schischkin,

Hansjörg Schneider,

Kathrin Schärer,

Jürg Schubiger,

Hans Schumacher,

Ruth Schweikert,

Monique Schwitter,

Jon Semadeni,

Tommaso Soldini,

Anna Sommer,

Peter Stamm,

Michael Stauffer,

Bruno Steiger,

Michelle Steinbeck,

Jens Steiner,

Carmen Stephan,

Beat Sterchi,

Martin Suter

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José-Flore Tappy,

Pierre-Alain Tâche,

Matteo Terzaghi,

Leo Tuor

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Marie-Jeanne Urech,

Raphael Urweider

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Aglaja Veteranyi,

Christina Viragh,

Peter von Matt

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Robert Walser,

Frédéric Wandelère,

Julia Weber,

Peter Weber,

Markus Werner,

Urs Widmer

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Mary-Laure Zoss,

Matthias Zschokke

Urs Faes

Sommer in Brandenburg

«What kind of voice was this – a laugh, not loud but penetrating, boisterous and playful, a stranger’s, most importantly a girl’s laugh he had never heard before, with a sound that was new to him, throaty, raw.»

It’s Summer, 1938: Lissy Harb and Ron Berend are spending some time in Brandenburg, working on a Jewish agricultural training project in Ahrensdorf, near Trebbin. Ron is from Hamburg, Lissy from Vienna. Along with other young people, they’re getting ready to emigrate to Palestine. Once they arrive, they’ll be living on a kibbutz, so they have to learn the skills they’ll need to survive out there. They’re taking courses in agriculture, vegetable farming and joinery; they’re learning new languages and are being instructed in Jewish culture and religion.
Urs Faes‘ carefully researched novel reveals to us a little known aspect of Jewish history. It takes as its starting point a photograph of the lovers, and – underpinned by proven facts – imagines how in those uncertain times, young people might have come together and lived in what were called «Hachschara», or Jewish training camps in Nazi Germany, at a time of great unrest, fear and also great hope. The Jewish would-be emigrants have lived for a long time in ‘enemy territory‘: the Hitler Youth has a camp in the neighbourhood, there’s also an aerodrome nearby. Everyone is fearful, as to whether they’ll be able to get out of Germany in good time, and get permission from the British authorities, to travel to the British Mandate in Palestine.
Interwoven into this picture of a German Summer, is the love story of Lissy and Ron, who meet in Ahrensdorf, fall in love – and then lose each other again. They wanted to build a life together in Palestine; this novel becomes their touching memorial.

(Martin Zingg)

Recommended for translation by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia:
www.12swissbooks.ch

Translation of title: Summer in Brandenburg

Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013

ISBN: 978-3-518-42419-3

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