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NovelAdolpheBenjamin Constant · 1816The small courts of Germany and Poland at the beginning of the century, where a young man from a good family does not know what to do with his freedom.Literature
Short storiesThe Black SpiderDie schwarze SpinneJeremias Gotthelf · 1842The Bernese Emmental of the mid-nineteenth century, where the legends of the valley are gathered in order to draw lessons of Christian conduct from them.Literature
Short storiesClothes Make the ManKleider machen LeuteGottfried Keller · 1874The small towns of German-speaking Switzerland in the nineteenth century, where rank is read in clothing and where people are anxious not to be proved wrong.Literature
Short storiesThe SaintDer HeiligeConrad Ferdinand Meyer · 1879Twelfth-century England, where the quarrel between the king and his archbishop comes down to who, the throne or the Church, judges the clergy.Literature
NovelHeidiJohanna Spyri · 1881A mountain pasture in the Grisons and a bourgeois house in Frankfurt, at a time when people believe that mountain air heals what the city damages.Literature
NovelJakob von GuntenRobert Walser · 1909An institute in Berlin at the beginning of the century, whose pupils leave as servants and leave as nothing else.Literature
NarrativeWalliser SagenJohannes Jegerlehner · 1922not translated into EnglishThe high Alpine valleys, where whatever falls from the mountain is held to be the wage of faults committed below.Literature
NovelTempo di marzoFrancesco Chiesa · 1925not translated into EnglishRural Ticino in the 1900s, a peasant society whose customs and people a child gradually discovers.Literature
NovelGreat Fear on the MountainLa Grande Peur dans la montagneCharles Ferdinand Ramuz · 1926A high mountain pasture and its village, in the twenties, where what the elders say is weighed against what the animals bring in.Literature
NovelMoravagineBlaise Cendrars · 1926The France of the twenties, where the adventure story is used to express the share of destruction that the century has just discovered in itself.Literature
NovelSchweizerspiegelMeinrad Inglin · 1938not translated into EnglishSwitzerland during the Great War, neutral and split in two between German-speakers and French-speakers, seen from a drawing room of the Zurich bourgeoisie.Literature
Feature filmMarie-LouiseLeopold Lindtberg · 1944The neutral Switzerland of the war, which takes in children for three months and then sends them back home.Cinema
NovelLa Paix des ruchesAlice Rivaz · 1947not translated into EnglishAn office worker confides to her diary that she has stopped loving the man she married.Literature
Feature filmHeidiLuigi Comencini · 1952The Grisons and Frankfurt, filmed seven years after the war, from the best-known Swiss book in the world.Cinema
PoetryTestament du Haut-RhôneMaurice Chappaz · 1953not translated into EnglishThe Valais of the middle of the twentieth century, where peasant civilisation is giving way to dams and tourism, and where a poet keeps the record of it.Literature
Feature filmUli der KnechtFranz Schnyder · 1954The peasant Emmental of the nineteenth century, where a man is judged by the work he does and the money he puts aside.Cinema
TheatreThe VisitDer Besuch der alten DameFriedrich Dürrenmatt · 1956A small, ruined town with no country, where people have just learned that a fortune can be bought at the price of a single man.Literature
NovelHomo FaberHomo faberMax Frisch · 1957America, the Atlantic and Greece in the fifties, crossed by a man who holds figures to be the only serious thing.Literature
NovelAbwässerHugo Loetscher · 1963not translated into EnglishA prosperous, clean city of the middle of the twentieth century, seen from what it discharges and does not wish to see.Literature
Short storiesAnd Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the MilkmanEigentlich möchte Frau Blum den Milchmann kennenlernenPeter Bichsel · 1964German-speaking Switzerland of the sixties, where an unadorned prose takes the gestures of ordinary people as its material.Literature
Feature filmSiamo italianiAlexander J. Seiler · 1964Switzerland in the early sixties, where more than half a million Italians keep the economy running and are seen as a problem.Cinema
Feature filmCharles, Dead or AliveCharles mort ou vifAlain Tanner · 1969Switzerland after May 1968, prosperous and well ordered, where leaving one's place is regarded as an illness.Cinema
Feature filmThe SurveyorsLes ArpenteursMichel Soutter · 1972The Genevan countryside of the early seventies, where people cross paths by chance and miss each other with great application.Cinema
Feature filmShadow of AngelsSchatten der EngelDaniel Schmid · 1976A Central European city handed over to developers, where everything is for sale and one can even buy an ear.Cinema
Feature filmThe LacemakerLa DentellièreClaude Goretta · 1977France in the seventies, where people believe social milieux to be permeable and where words remain on the side of those who have studied.Cinema
Feature filmSan GottardoVilli Hermann · 1977Switzerland of the great Alpine construction sites, which brings in men from elsewhere to cut through the mountain and sends them back afterwards.Cinema
Feature filmThe SwissmakersDie SchweizermacherRolf Lyssy · 1978Switzerland in the late seventies, where becoming Swiss is granted at the end of a neighbourhood inquiry.Cinema
Feature filmLes Petites FuguesYves Yersin · 1979The farms of the Vaud region before 1980, when a farmhand spends his whole life without ever being asked his opinion.Cinema
Feature filmThe Story of NightGeschichte der NachtClemens Klopfenstein · 1979Europe after midnight, from one end of the continent to the other, when cities look alike and no one tells them apart any more.Cinema
Feature filmDas höchste Gut einer Frau ist ihr SchweigenGertrud Pinkus · 1980Germany of the immigrant workers in the late seventies, seen from the kitchens where the women wait.Cinema
TheatreGroßvater und HalbbruderThomas Hürlimann · 1981not translated into EnglishA Swiss village on the German border during the Second World War, where the war seems distant and where people watch the other bank.Literature
NovelDas Jahr der LiebePaul Nizon · 1981not translated into EnglishThe Paris of rented rooms and cafés at the end of the seventies, as seen by a foreigner who has come there to rebuild himself.Literature
Feature filmThe Boat Is FullDas Boot ist vollMarkus Imhoof · 1981Switzerland in the summer of 1942, which no longer grants asylum to those fleeing for reasons of race alone.Cinema
Feature filmZüri bränntVideoladen Zürich · 1981The Zwinglian Zurich of 1980, wealthy and well kept, where a generation demands space and does not get it.Cinema
Short storiesDie RückeroberungFranz Hohler · 1982not translated into EnglishA Swiss city of the eighties, where the urban order seems definitive and where animals begin to return.Literature
Feature filmAlpine FireHöhenfeuerFredi M. Murer · 1985The Swiss mountains of the eighties, a high-altitude farm where life follows the rhythm of the seasons, far from any gaze.Cinema
NovelThe NotebookLe Grand CahierAgota Kristof · 1986Twins entrusted to a hostile grandmother during the war write down, without a word of feeling, how they learn to survive.Literature
NovelDer Rote RitterAdolf Muschg · 1993not translated into EnglishThe Grail legend retold at the end of the twentieth century, with no reverence for what the Middle Ages had fixed of it.Literature
TheatreTop DogsUrs Widmer · 1996not translated into EnglishThe business world of the nineties, restructurings and redeployments, where losing one's job passes for a personal failing.Literature
NovelFlucht nach obenAnnemarie Schwarzenbach · 1999not translated into EnglishAn uprooted aristocrat flees the world in the snow of the Alps, while the political storm gathers.Literature