Lectures and readings

Read-it-yourself. Biblioteca Engiadinaisa in Sils-Baselgia: a splendid and well-stocked library well worth your visit, with 18,000 volumes in five languages and two beautiful reading rooms. Open Mon. to Fri. from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. (Thu. until 9).

“Not German, I beg your majesty” (Mozart, in Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus”). But German it is, alas: most of our talks and readings are in the language of Goethe and William Tell.

  • 18.12.2011

    „Wie die Schweizer Wirtschaft tickt“

    is the latest book by business journalist Beat Kappeler, reflecting a lifetime of analyzing the Swiss economy. Do we need a watchmaker to get it back on track?
  • 19.12.2011

    Elisabeth Binder, „Der Wintergast“

    Author’s reading: Elisabeth Binder, “Der Wintergast” (novel; Klett-Cotta 2010). Accompanied by Maya Homburger (violin), Barry Guy (double bass).
  • 24.12.2011

    Other Waldhaus Christmas traditions:

    Christmas reading by Renate Heuser. Children’s Christmas party with Anita and the Waldhaus trio around the Christ-mas tree in the great lounge. “Encounters with Christmas” buffet.
  • 28.12.2011

    “Verba alpina”

    Old dialects, new media. Prof. Thomas Krefeld, Romance scholar in Munich, with a digital, linguistic-geographic database, partly inspired by the fascinating linguistic landscape of the Fex valley.
  • 30.12.2011

    Nietzsche’s relationships

    with women and what music had to do with it. A talk by Peter André Bloch, 5:30 in the village church.
  • 03.01.2012

    “Zwischen Gestern und Morgen”:

    actors Martin Rapold and Benedict Freitag read poems and texts by Kurt Tucholsky, the German satirist.
  • 09.01.2012

    Author’s reading:

    Daniela Kuhn, “Zwischen Stall und Hotel - 13 Lebensgeschichten aus Sils im Engadin” (Limmat Verlag). 13 portraits of Silsers. Sils can still surprise!
  • 18.01.2012

    “IN SEARCH OF MEMORY”

    5 p.m.: Petra Seeger in person showing her fascinating documentary film (largely in English) about neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel
  • 19.01.2012

    Nietzsche and Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    a talk (in German) in the village by Joachim Jung.
  • 23.01.2012

    Author’s reading:

    Jens Steiner, “Hasenleben”. A debut novel (Dörlemann, 2011) starring St. Moritz: Chasper Pult’s first face to face with Graubünden this winter.

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