Travel Books:

	IRELAND - A Journey Through the Land of the Rainbows, Sanssouci Verlag, München, 2003, ISBN: 3-7254-1273-1 It had been raining all night. I was standing down below at the far end of the property on the bank of the river, where it splits into a minor and a major stream. I cannot remember how I got there, or why. At the time there were just a few paths through the brambles, and I must have fought my way through dripping shrubbery. It was early in the morning, the sun stood at an angle, just above the hills opposite. The water glistened between the brown river banks. It is said that every person has a landscape to which he belongs and I was convinced I had discovered mine. That happened during the first winter. We had arrived in Ireland the summer before. For a few months we had stayed in Dublin, at a distance from Switzerland which could be measured in miles, in flying hours.. (read more...) Order Information
	Ireland - and Northern Ireland, with photos by Max Schmid, terra magica, Luzern, 2004. ISBN: 3-7243-0387-4 "Ireland is very beautiful", Darina says. "But that´s not all it is", Conor adds taking a ginger biscuit. Liam heaps the third spoon of sugar into his tea. "You could write about the way Ireland has changed over the last few years", Darina suggest. "And how it was before", Liam stirs his tea. Conor feeds the rest of his biscuit to Cathbad. "As it always was", Aoife´s words sound like a melody. (read more...) Order Information
	Ireland, with photos by Marco Paoluzzo, Mondo Verlag, Vevey 2007, ISBN: 978-2-83200-536-1 It rains – but it only just started. As I walked the dogs on the beach this morning the sky was pink, three cormorants skimmed the waves and in the North the silhouette of the Mourne Mountains rose from the sea. Beyond is Northern Ireland that, for decades, gave the island a bad name. Nowadays, the differences between the communities named after their religion for want of other criteria are fought over by ageing politicians at conference tables. (read more...) Order Information

Plays

„Saida und die Taube“

Ein rasantes Zirkustheater für Menschen ab 7 Jahren

Buch: Gabrielle Alioth Regie und Idee: Raphaël Diener Musikregie: Christoph Gantert Kostüme: Anna Erdmann Film: Blokk Uraufführung: Am Samstag, den 17. April 2010 ab 19.00 Uhr im Theaterzirkus Wunderplunder bei der Kulturfabrik Burgdorf. Saida lebt als jüngstes Familienmitglied im Zirkus ihrer Eltern. Die Zeiten waren schon rosiger, der Betrieb läuft harzig. Gute Artisten sind schwer zu bekommen und wenn man sie hat, schwer zu halten. Saidas Zirkus ist ständig unterwegs. Kaum jemals länger als eine Woche weilt er am selben Ort. Oft ist sie alleine und trotz dem Applaus, den die talentierte Saida in jeder Vorstellung vom Publikum erhält, ist sie traurig. Ihr fehlen Freunde. Als sie eines Tages mit dem Vogelkäfig des unheimlichen Zauberers Horatius hinfällt, und dessen dressierte Taube entwischt, ist dies der Anfang ihres Glücks.

Hassle on the Arc Or: The Prophecies of the Rabbit

A play for children from the age of nine in Swiss dialect First performed by the Children´s Theatre Zug September 1st, 2006 Directed by Mónica Verena Keusch and Stefan Koch-Spinnler Music by Joseph Röösli Content: The animals on the Arc are bored. For weeks now they are stuck on the ship surrounded by nothing but water. Some Olympic games on the Arc come as a welcome change. Everything seems to get better, were it not for the rabbit Linus, who can see into the future – the future of the animals on land and with the humans … Leseprobe

Orpheus!

Happiness is short lived for Orpheus the singer, son of the Muse Calliope, as his young wife Eurydice dies on their wedding day, bitten by a snake. But Orpheus descends into the underworld to get her back and he moves Hades with his songs. He is allowed to take Eurydice back on condition that he does not look at her on the way through the realm of the death. But Orpheus cannot keep his promise and loses Eurydice for the second time. In his sorrow he retreats into the Thracian mountains, while Eurydice returns to the underworld. In place of the absent Orpheus, Eurydice is the main character of this play. We meet her as an ageing woman pondering her destiny in the underworld, wondering what could have been if she had lived a normal life married to Orpheus. This is the monologue of a mature woman, alternating between longing, irony, wit and rebellion – a woman who eventually capitulates in the face of love. First performed December 7th, 2006, at the Versuchsstollen Hagerbach, Sargans Leseprobe

CD-ROM:

Floating leaves This CD was produced as part of a stay as writer in residence at University College Dublin. We like to thank the Kompetenzzentrum für Kulturaussenpolitik des Eidgenössi- schen Departments für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Berne, for its generous support of the program and this project. Content: [1] Büchergeschichten (11:11) erstmals als „Der Schatten des Otters" in: ndl - neue deutsche literatur, 6 (1996) [2] Irland (4:13) Vorwort von Irland — eine Reise durchs Land der Regenbogen (München: Sanssouci, 2003) [3] Zimmer 15 (5:39) erstmals in: dato — weltküche (November 2003) [4] Fliegende Blätter (7:51) Interview mit Siobhán Donovan [5] Die Geschichte mit Rumpelstilzchen (14:51) aus: Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiß, Anthologie hrsg. von Gabrielle Alioth (Zürich: Nagel & Kimche, 2004) [6] Die Verwandtschaft (13:12) erstmals in: drehpunkt — Die Schweizer Literaturzeitschrift, 121 (April 2005), hrsg. von Rudolf Bussmann und Martin Zingg [7] Ausflug in die Heimat (12:31) erstmals in: Heimat, Schritte ins Offene — Zeitschrift für Emanzipation, Glaube, Kulturkritik, 2 (2004) Music: Extracts from Canario, by Francisco Guerau, Poema Harmonico, performed by Hopkinson Smith, Astrée E 8722, © Auvidis-Astrée 1990. With the kind permisson of Hopkinson Smith Producer: Siobhán Donovan Recording: Rosemount Studios Design: Andrew Johnstone Production: Frank Harreß, ebh radio software, Bremen Order Information: You can order the CD by sending me an e-mail

Anthology:

Nachgetragenes - 75 Jahre PEN-Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland, herausgegeben von Gabrielle Alioth und Hans-Christian Oeser, Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren, June 2008 Vor fünfundsiebzig Jahren, im Juni 1934, wurde der von deutschen Emigranten gegründete autonome Deutsche PEN-Club im Exil in den Internationalen PEN aufgenommen. Die Kerngruppe der Gründungsmitglieder bestand aus Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, Rudolf Olden and Max Herrmann-Neisse. Schon bald vereinte das Zentrum die wichtigsten Autoren und Autorinnen des Exils und repräsentierte die verfolgte ebenso wie die kämpferische Literatur des “anderen Deutschland”. Nach dem Krieg setzte es seine Tätigkeit unter dem Namen PEN-Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland fort – bis heute. Seine Mitglieder haben die unterschiedlichsten Biographien und sind in alle Welt verstreut, wissen sich aber einig in der Verteidigung des freien Worts und der Solidarität mit allen politisch unterdrückten Schriftstellern und Journalisten. Die vorliegende Anthologie dokumentiert die Kontinuität, Aktualität und Vitalität dieser Autorengruppe.

Portraits:

Noted – The Life Stories of 24 Women from Basel City and Country, Limmat, May 2008, ISBN 978-3-85791-550-5 Their background, experience, opinions, professions and passions separate them, what connects them is a region. Each one of them went her own way – 24 women from the cantons of Basel and Baselland speak about their lives, their early years, their work, their husbands, children, their successes and failures, their worries and what made them happy. Gabrielle Alioth, Corina Lanfranchi and Katharina Tanner talked to these women, Annette Boutellier photographed them. From word and picture the portraits of 24 unique lives emerge, reflecting the history of the region in the last century as well. “Noted“ is part of a series of books containing women´s profiles published by the Limmat Verlag, Zurich, featuring women from the cantons of Lucerne, St. Gallen, Wallis, Glarus and Zug.

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