Béla Rothenbühler: "Polifon perverse"

Nominated for the Swiss Book Prize 2024

Amazing things happen in a tranquil small town in Switzerland: Sabine and Chantal have hardly been founded when they shake up the cultural scene with their association "Polifon Pervers" and a new vision of "Onderhaltig". Risk-taking and cleverly acting, they rise to national greats as theatre producers and gather an illustrious group around them: from the vain director Lüssiän to the drunken ghostwriter Iiv, the bon vivant and DJ Milan and the opportunistic acting great Schontal to Jule and his hemp farmers, who unexpectedly shine as performance artists. In the course of history, the Entertainment Association subordinates everything to success, and so the first imperfections are soon followed by all kinds of fraud. In his second novel, Béla Rothenbühler convincingly continues the tradition of the picaresque novel - for once with impostors and in Lucerne German.
Béla Rothenbühler, born in 1990 in Reussbühl, freelance dramaturg, playwright, singer, ghostwriter, guitarist, fundraiser, cultural commission member, songwriter, lyricist, producer and volunteer lecturer of the German teaching material of an Amish community in the state of Indiana. Since 2016 part of the independent theatre collective Fetter Vetter & Oma Hommage. He is also the guitarist, singer and songwriter of the band Mehltau and lyricist for Hanreti.
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Reading: Béla Rothenbühler
Music: Rotchopf
Duration: approx. 70 minutes, without intermission