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The Literaturhaus visits camera.lit.obscura: Elias Hirschl – Schleifen
A ‘firework display of fresh ideas’ (FAZ) – shortlisted for the German and Austrian Book Prizes in 2026.
With his novels *Salonfähig* (Zsolnay 2021) and *Content* (Zsolnay 2024), the Austrian author Elias Hirschl established himself as a master of literary satire, holding up a mirror to society with equal parts sensitivity and ruthlessness. In ‘Schleifen’ (Zsolnay 2026), he now turns his attention to the power of language – and its limitations. Franziska grows up in the milieu of the Vienna Circle and, as a child, suffers from a strange illness: every symptom she hears or reads about immediately manifests itself in her. Together with the brilliant mathematician Otto, she obsessively researches a perfect universal language capable of unambiguously representing reality.
Presenter: Nicola Steiner
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Sunday, December 13, 2026
camera.lit.obscura, Garage Wetzikon, Bahnhofstrasse 22/24, 8620 Wetzikon
11:00
Book at obscura@kultur-wetzikon.ch; ticket prices: CHF 20 standard / CHF 15 concessions
Elias Hirschl
camera.lit.obscura, Garage Wetzikon, Bahnhofstrasse 22/24, 8620 Wetzikon
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