BLECHSCHLOSSNÄCHTE 2025: Béla Rothenbühler - "Polyphon Pervers"

In a tranquil small town in Switzerland, something amazing happens: Sabine and Schanti have barely been founded when they stir up the cultural scene with their association Polyphon Pervers. Risk-taking and clever, they rise to national prominence as theater producers and gather an illustrious circle around them: from the vain director Lucien to the boozy ghostwriter Yves, the bon vivant and DJ Milan and the opportunistic acting great Chantal to Jules and his hemp farmers, who unexpectedly shine as performance artists. In the course of the story, the entertainment club subordinates everything to success, and so the first impurities are soon followed by all kinds of fraud.

In his second novel, Béla Rothenbühler revives the tradition of the picaresque novel - this time with quick-witted con artists. His satirical journey through culture, entertainment and money is not only clever, but is itself a masterpiece of entertainment in which anyone with a heart somewhere in the big wheels of the entertainment industry could find themselves.

Béla Rothenbühler, born in 1990 in Reussbühl, Switzerland, is a freelance dramaturge, author and musician who lives and works in Lucerne. He is active in the independent Lucerne theater scene with the collective "Fetter Vetter & Oma Hommage" and as a musician with the Krautrock band "Mehltau". His Lucerne German debut novel "Provenzhauptschtadt" was published by Der gesunde Menschenversand in 2021. His second novel "Polifon Pervers" was published by the same publisher in 2024, was shortlisted for the 2024 Swiss Book Prize, won the 2025 Swiss Literature Prize and is now also available in this country via Voland & Quist in the translation by Uwe Dethier. His reading performances are crazy and very entertaining.

https://rothenbühler.eu/

https://www.voland-quist.de/werke/polyphon-pervers/

Presented by Voland&Quist.