Bettina Spoerri

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Bettina Spoerri (* 1968 in Zurich ) is a Swiss author , literary scholar and literary educator .

Life

Born in Zurich, she grew up in Basel and then moved back to Zurich to study German literature and linguistics, philosophy and musicology . This was followed by semesters abroad at the Free University of Berlin and in Paris (EHESS, Sorbonne), where she attended seminars by Hélène Cixous , Sarah Kofman , Jacques Derrida and Umberto Eco . After completing her studies in 1994, she worked for Keystone and lived in Jerusalem before Alois Maria Haas appointed her as a research assistant at the German Department of the University of Zurich .

In the 1990s, Spoerri wrote drafts and organized readings and literary events for authors as an editor of the literary and art magazine . From 2002 to 2011 she was part of the cultural commission of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Zurich (ICZ) and invited numerous Israeli writers and film authors to Zurich (including Zeruya Shalev , Etgar Keret , Savyon Liebrecht , Meir Shalev , Michal Govrin ). From 2004 to 2009, as the successor to the literary educator Ruth Binde, she led the Bernhard Litteraire, a monthly literary talk with three guests each, which had to look for a new location shortly after Spoerri joined. In 2005/2006 she moved to merchants in Zurich. Spoerri has published many essays and essays in anthologies and thematic publications on transnationality, literature and migration, identity, remembrance / memory. She is co-initiator and co-editor of the monograph "Discourses from Enge. Cosmopolitan Spaces in Swiss Literatures".

After Spoerri had already worked as culture editor for the St. Galler Tagblatt from 2001–2003 and then as a freelancer for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , she worked as a permanent editor at the NZZ from 2007 to 2009 and wrote reviews and interviews in particular on Swiss literature and current Swiss and international filmmaking. She was the literary curator of the touring exhibition Swiss Lib. On contemporary Swiss literature of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia , which could be seen with a literary accompanying program in Vilnius , Krakow , Prague and Lviv / Lemberg. In 2011/2012 she received a scholarship from Landis & Gyr . From July 2012 she headed the Solothurn Literature Days (2013 edition). In October 2013, Bettina Spoerri took over the management of the Aargauer Literaturhaus in Lenzburg (CH).

Works

In 2004 her first play ("Bleaching, if necessary", with the migrant theater group SEM) was premiered. Since the 1990s, short stories have been printed in (literary) magazines (drafts, Variations, Du Magazin, Xing and others). In autumn 2013 her first novel "Concert for the Intrepid" was published by the Viennese publisher Braumüller . This was followed in 2016 by the second novel "Herzvirus" and the award-winning story "Faster than Light". In 2019 she published, together with photographer Klaus Rózsa, "Zurich off the beaten track. A slightly different journey through the lively city beyond the rich facades", also published by the Viennese publisher Braumüller.

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