29^th Leukerbad International Literary Festival

Authors

Rolf Hermann

Switzerland

Born in 1973, the Valaisian Rolf Hermann is a freelance writer living in Biel. He writes spoken word, prose, poetry, and plays for radio and theater, often in dialect. His texts have been translated into multiple languages and have won many awards. At present, he is traveling to present two stage works in addition to his new book Die Diplomfeier (The Graduation Ceremony) with musical accompaniment by Mathias Schenk. In this book, a custodian recounts a graduation ceremony or, more precisely, “the craziest graduation ceremony of all times.”
Rolf Hermann is multifaceted: along with a keen sense of situational comedy, he uses poetry to illuminate our living environment. Sensuous and tender, formally intentional with an unmistakable tone: he travels through several landscapes simultaneously, the landscape of his memories, that of his childhood and youth, that of his homeland with its deep valley and steep slopes, and that of his literary role model Rilke, who continues to influence the atmosphere of the Rhone valley.
At the Leukerbad International Literary Festival, he will present together with the students from OS Leukerbad the results of the writing workshops. And or the project “Vanished Places”, he has searched for traces of the former Torrent Hotel.

Die Diplomfeier. Das Protokoll. Der gesunde Menschenversand 2025
In der Nahaufnahme verwildern wir. Poems. Der gesunde Menschenversand 2021
Eine Kuh namens Manhatten. edition spoken script 33. Der gesunde Menschenversand 2019

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