Flurina Badel and Selina Beghetto
Foto: Maurice Haas
Flurina Badel (*1983, Lavin) è autura plurilingua. Suenter ina emprima scolaziun da schurnalissem, ha ella absolt il Master of Fine Arts a l’Institut Art Gender Nature da la HGK a Basilea ed ha studegià a l’Institut per art litterara da l’Università d’art applitgada a Vienna. L’on 2019 è cumpari ses emprim tom da poesia «tinnitus tropic» (editionmevinapuorger, Turich), ch’è vegni premià cun il Premi Svizzer da Litteratura 2020. L’onn 2024 è cumparì ses emprim roman «Tschiera» (Chasa Editura Rumantscha, Cuira). Flurina Badel è tranter auter stada stipendiata da Wintertuin (2024) e da la Fondation Jan Michalski (2023). Ella è mentura dal Bolo Klub 24/25, ha concepì la furmaziun «Lavuratori da scriver litterar» per la Lia Rumantscha ed è docenta dal modul «Scriver experimental», ella ha manà plirs lavuratoris sco «Multilingualism and linguistic autbiography in poetry» a la Banaras Hindu University u la masterclass «Multilingualism as power tool for literary writing» per la ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem. www.flurinabadel.ch Flurina Badel (*1983, Lavin) is a multilingual author. After completing her initial training as a journalist, she earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Institute Art Gender Nature at the HGK in Basel and studied at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2019, her first poetry collection, tinnitus tropic (editionmevinapuorger, Zurich), was published and awarded the Swiss Literature Prize in 2020. Her debut novel, Tschiera (Chasa Editura Rumantscha, Chur), was released in 2024. She has been a recipient of various grants, including Wintertuin (2024) and the Fondation Jan Michalski (2023). Flurina serves as a mentor for the Bolo Klub 24/25 and designed the "Lavuratori da scriver litterar" writing course for Lia Rumantscha. She teaches the module "Scriver experimental" and has led several seminars, such as "Multilingualism and linguistic autobiography in poetry" at Banaras Hindu University and the masterclass "Multilingualism as a power tool for literary writing" at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. www.flurinabadel.ch
Foto: Mayk Wendt
Selina Beghetto (*1989) grew up in St. Moritz. After studying in Vienna, Pisa, and Bern, she now lives with her family in Basel. Her first professional engagement led her to the Lucerne Theatre as a dance dramaturge. Over the past ten years, Selina Beghetto has collaborated with various cultural institutions, led theater courses for young people in Lucerne and Kosovo, and worked as a dramaturge, supporting artists from different disciplines in numerous projects across Switzerland. Her most recent engagement was with the dance company of the St. Gallen Theatre. Currently, she co-curates the dance festival Steps, a project by Migros Culture Percentage, and teaches the "Scriver litterar" writing workshop for Lia Rumantscha. Additionally, she writes texts for magazines, art publications, and contributions for RTR, translates from Romansh into English together with Niklas Fischer, moderates cultural events, and teaches yoga classes. www.selinabeghetto.com
Project
"Ester" (working title)
"Ester" (WT) is a longer bilingual prose text. The project explores the feeling of being at home by intertwining the (life) stories of different women. All of them come from the same family but belong to different generations. Their commonality lies in their origin. Otherwise, their biographies could not be more different—largely because the prevailing familial and societal norms and beliefs of their respective times inevitably shaped their decisions and life paths. Another unifying element in the text is the theme of motherhood: How do the respective women experience being a mother? In which language are they daughters, and in which are they mothers?
"Ester" is an autofictional book idea that combines real events from my family with fictional characters and occurrences. With this project, I aim not only to advance my thematic research on origin and motherhood and shape it into something literary but also to experiment with language. The primary language is German, but I am attempting to weave in Romansh and find a suitable dramaturgy for it. As part of the coaching program, Flurina Badel is guiding me in developing the concept, which I have already outlined in an initial step. The characters are already established; now, the task is to give them a voice and start writing. The goal is to write as much as possible during the mentoring year and, ideally, to have some form of a manuscript in hand by the end.
