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Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote Das Versprechen (published in English as The Pledge) after he was asked to write a film script for a project that would end up being one of the seminal moments of German/Swiss film making: Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). The 1958 version...
bookshelves: radio-4x, switzerland, mystery-thriller, spring-2015, published-1953, tbr-busting-2015, translation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from October 20, 2012 to May 02, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0...
The fact is, there's nothing more scandalous than a miracle in the realm of science. Three of history's greatest physicists meet in a drawing-room: Newton, Einstein and Möbius. Newton has a bottle of cognac hidden in the fireplace. Einstein has just strangled a woman to death. And Möbius is being vi...
I think it seemed unrealistic because it was a Hollywood-style morality tale, except reversed, from a Swiss-German perspective, so that getting inefficiently, emotionally involved beyond the bare details of the case is considered excessive and even blinding.
In the Summer and Fall of 1907, Rilke traveled to Paris. He spent many days rapt before the paintings of Cézanne in the Salon d'Autome, which was holding a memorial exhibition of the painter's work. Rilke captured his reactions and developing thoughts about art and artists in a series of letters to ...
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