FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : SWISS BOOK PRIZE 2016 (Satis Shroff) : Swiss Book Prize 2016: ‘The Dead’ outlives Other Authors (Satis Shroff) The Swiss Book Prize (Schweizer Buchpreis) is a literar...

Swiss Book Prize 2016: ‘The Dead’ outlives Other Authors (Satis Shroff) The Swiss Book Prize (Schweizer Buchpreis) is a literary award awarded annually by a jury on behalf of the Swiss Booksellers' Association. The prize amount is CHF 30,000. The award was instituted in 2008 following the example of the German Book Prize. Only German language works of authors living in Switzerland or of Swiss nationality are eligible. This year the Prize was awarded to Christian Kracht. The winner of the Swiss Book Prize 2016 is Christian Kracht and his novel ‘Die Toten,’ the Dead. It outlived the other four novels from the Swiss short-list. The also-rans were: Sacha Batthany, Christopher Höhtker, Charles Lewinsky and Michelle Steinbeck. Three authors were really up to the mark in the battle for the Swiss Prize. Christoph Höhtker came up with a novel about Bielefeld. It made an impact on readers from Bielefeld, Germany.  The other contender was a journalist from Zurich named sa...

Remembering the Fallen Soldiers : On November 9, 2014 Freiburg also remembered the destruction of its Jewish Synagogue by the Nazis. It is heartening to note that the Society for Christian-Jewish Partnership, as well as Freiburg City and other organisations held a memorial event at the place where the olde synagogue stood. You could even take part in a guided-tour with the title 'The Jew.' A talk on Freiburg's Stolperstein was held by Ms. Marlies Meckel. If you come to this Schwarzwald metropolis you'll come across a lot of bronze cobbled stones with names of the Jews engraved on them. These were the Jews who once lived in Freiburg but who were murdered in the concentration camps through the use of Zyklon B, a nerve-gas, used by the Nazis. A ghastly reminder of a tragic and sad chapter in the history of Germany and this city.

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : The Rust Belt & the Promises Made (Satis Shroff) : THE PROMISES MADE & THE RUST BELT (Satis Shroff) The rust belt to the north of the USA was Hillary Clinton's Waterloo,eh?  ...