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As there is no dominant national language, the four main languages of French, Italian, German and Romansch form the four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland. The original Swiss Confederation, from its foundation in 1291 up to 1798, gained only a few French-speaking districts in what is now the Canton of Fribourg, and so the German language dominated. During that period the Swiss vernacular literature was in German, although in the 18th century, French became fashionable in Bern and elsewhere. At that time, Geneva and Lausanne were not yet Swiss: Geneva was an ally and Vaud a subject land.[1] The French branch does not really begin to qualify as Swiss writing until after 1815, when the French-speaking regions gained full status as Swiss cantons. The Italian and Romansch-Ladin branches are less prominent.
Like the earlier charters of liberties, the original League of 1291 was drawn up in Latin. Later alliances among the cantons, as well as documents concerning the whole Confederation—the Parsons Ordinance of 1370, the Sempach Ordinance of 1393, the Compact of Stans (1481) and all the Recesses of the Diets—were compiled in German. Political documents are not necessarily literature, but these pre-Reformation alliances rested on popular consent, and were expressed in vernacular German rather than in clerkly Latin.[1]
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the population of Switzerland were native speakers of German (either Swiss or Standard German) at home; 22.8% French (mostly Swiss French, but including...
of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of...
written and is among the best-known works of Swissliterature. In the town of Dörfli ('small village' in Swiss German), lived two brothers. The older wasted...
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is no doubt the story would have been admitted to the canon of world literature even if we had known nothing about its author. According to Peter-André...
1946 the Nobel committee received one nomination for Hesse by the Swissliterature professor and author Robert Faesi, and one nomination by Anders Österling...
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Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf...
theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg...
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yodeling. Other Swiss cultural icons include Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, watches, cowbells, banking, and the Swiss Army knives. Folk art is kept alive in...
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clearing house about literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America, establishing a forum of debate about "Third World" literature. In 2006, Litcam, a...
Hunt's original edition. Andrew Lang's introduction is also included.) Literature by and about Wilhelm Grimm in the German National Library catalogue Works...
University was not prepared to pay the associated inheritance tax of 18 million Swiss francs to the Canton of Ticino, the villa was confiscated by the canton...
GEDOK literature prize 2006 Winner of the Scholarship Island Writers on Sylt 2008 Solothurner Literaturpreis 2008 Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize...
with Klaus to North Africa in 1929, they met Annemarie Schwarzenbach, a Swiss writer and photographer, who remained close to them for the next few years...
Beck. p. 58. ISBN 978-3-406-73436-6. Hoffman, Jascha. "DATA; COMPARATIVE LITERATURE". query.nytimes.com. "The Mentor to transfer to the West End – WhatsOnStage"...
declared: "I am Swiss, not simply because I hold a Swiss passport, was born on Swiss soil etc.: But I am Swiss by quasi-religious confession." There followed...
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