Flimmern im Ohr

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READING & TALK I Dörlemann Verlag

With BARBARA SCHIBLI

Summer 2010: While Priska is practising listening to her inner ear implant in such a way that the punk music of the past could become intoxicating again, a political scandal is shaking the Swiss public. As in the politically heated 1970s and 80s, the domestic secret service has once again illegally tapped into the data of suspicious persons. Priska was also under surveillance back then. The new fiche affair brings back memories of her time in the club scene and the Swiss women's movement, but above all of Gina, her role model, her fearless comrade-in-arms and great love, who was also targeted by the secret service. Over thirty years later, Priska thinks back and wonders how her life became what it is now.

With poetic images and gentle radicalism, Barbara Schibli explores the question of whether we become more and more ourselves over the years or lose ourselves in compromises. And how we recognize the difference.

BARBARA SCHIBLI studied German, Italian literature and journalism and lives in the canton of Aargau. In addition to teaching German as a basic subject, she also teaches literary writing and is a member of the Swiss Writers' Association. Her debut novel "Flechten" was awarded the Studer/Ganz Prize and the GEDOK Literary Promotion Prize.