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Mariann Bühler [Switzerland]
Mariann Bühler, born in 1982 near Lucerne, is an author, literary mediator and event organiser in various contexts. She was honoured for her literary work with a grant from the Basel Literature Committee (2018) and the Central Switzerland Literature Fund (2020).
She studied English Literature and Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Basel and the Free University of Berlin, graduating in 2010.
Her first novel Verschiebung im Gestein (tr: Shift in the Rock) was published by Atlantis Literaturverlag in 2024. The novel follows three characters who know nothing about each other and yet are connected – through the area, the village and the pressing question of how things should actually continue. They are stubbornly haunted by far-reaching traces of the past, but then something starts to move. In her linguistically dense debut, Mariann Bühler observes how change finds its way and shifts happen that were never intended, sometimes even moving mountains. Elisabeth takes over the village bakery, which has long stood empty. Alois runs the family farm, without ever being asked if he wants to. A young woman returns to the village. She goes to her grandparents to get the key to the summer house in the mountains, which is to be sold.
Mariann Bühler has published texts in literary journals, including Das Narr, Stoff für den Shutdown and Glitter. She initiated and managed the Sofalesungen project and has worked for the Literaturhaus Zentralschweiz and the Literaturhaus Basel.
She currently resides in Basel.