Center Dürrenmatt

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The Center Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel (CDN) exhibits the paintings and drawings by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . Organizationally, it forms a service within the Swiss National Library , just like the Swiss Literature Archive , with which it works closely.

The Dürrenmatt Center, which opened above Neuchâtel in autumn 2000 , is located in the first house that Dürrenmatt moved into in Neuchâtel in 1952. The Swiss architect Mario Botta received the mandate to renovate the house.

As a place for discussion and research, the Center promotes critical examination of Dürrenmatt's visual and literary work. In addition to changing exhibitions, the permanent exhibition “Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer and painter” is open to the public. Readings, concerts, colloquiums and debates take place regularly. In addition to the numerous exhibits on his literary work (such as manuscript sketches with handwritten annotations) and previously rarely shown pictures, the Center also offers a wide view over Lake Neuchâtel to the Bernese Alps .

history

Friedrich Dürrenmatt moved into his house above the town in 1952, where he lived and worked until his death on December 14, 1990 (albeit later in a different building above). In some of his works he had thematized this life beyond the Röstigraben , in particular the fact that from 1952 he lived in the French-speaking part, but wrote in German. After his death, his previous house was structurally adapted and expanded so that a museum could be set up in it and officially opened in September 2000.

Past exhibitions

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer and painter , permanent exhibition
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Finals , from April 6th to October 26th, 2003
  • Dieter Roth: la Bibliothèque , from April 6th to October 26th, 2003
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt's theater in Bulgaria , from May 7th to August 20th, 2004
  • Gotthelf-Dürrenmatt or Moral im Emmental , from October 31, 2004 to January 30, 2005
  • Varlin - Dürrenmatt Horizontal , from April 24 to July 31, 2005
  • Hanny Fries: Dürrenmatt at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , from September 17 to December 17, 2006
  • Dürrenmatt and the Myths: Drawings and Manuscripts , from February 11 to April 30, 2007
  • On the verge of language , from May 19 to September 2, 2007
  • Pavel Schmidt - fk - Kafka drawings , from October 19, 2007 to February 10, 2008
  • Topor - Encyclopedia of the Body , from March 16, 2008 to May 11, 2008
  • Paul Flora - Royal Dramas , from May 18, 2008 to August 31, 2008
  • Prague 1968 - 40 years of the Prague Spring , from September 14, 2008 to October 19, 2008
  • Piranesis Carceri , from December 10, 2008 to February 8, 2009
  • Cartoons: Sempé, Bosc, Chaval, Ungerer , from February 15 to May 31, 2009
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini. Who I am - Qui je suis, from June 14th to September 6th, 2009
  • Martial Leiter - Guerres , from September 25, 2009 to January 31, 2010
  • Dürrenmatt as a cartoonist: New Acquisitions , from February 3 to May 16, 2010

Past concerts

literature

  • Mario Botta, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Edwin Erismann, Thomas Flechtner: Center Duerrenmatt, Neuchatel . Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 2000, ISBN 3764363134 .
  • David de Pury: Vision dans l'urgence: écrits et entretiens, 1990-2000 / Thinking in the turn: writings and conversations, 1990-2000 . Labor et Fides, Genévre 2002, ISBN 2830910648 , pp. 295-299.
  • Roland Bursch: "We poetry history": Adaptation and construction of history by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (= Epistemata: Series Literary Studies . Volume 587). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3826034139 , p. 127.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '4.4 "  N , 6 ° 56" 11.3 "  E ; CH1903:  561 808  /  205698