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Friday, 3 June 2022, 7:30 pm
\nMonte Verit\u00e0 Congress and Cultural Centre, Ascona<\/p>\n
Introduction to the topic
\n“For more than twenty-five years I have lived in Switzerland and always on the border. In Basel
\na few hundred metres to France and Germany, but for the last fifteen years we have been separated by the
\nthe only thing that has separated us from Italy for the past fifteen years is the river that runs past our house. The bridge over it is a border post.
\nSince then I have often been asked why I live in this area of all places. After all
\nI had also lived in Berlin, London, Dubai and Hong Kong at the same time. Nevertheless, I am now even at home in this
\nin this Mal cantone village. Why? Probably everyone (and every woman) knows,
\nwho have at some point decided to pull up stakes in the country of their birth and move elsewhere, knows
\nand moved elsewhere, this state of limbo between belonging and being a stranger, which is perhaps the
\nthe basic mood of every emigration. Those who voluntarily (or not) turn their backs on their original home
\noften renounces certainties that he or she did not even know existed before leaving.
\nknew about before leaving. For example, the unshakeable conviction of being there because one has always been there.
\nEven if one later acquires a new right to live somewhere far away, this conviction is quickly lost.
\nquickly lost. One becomes accustomed to a new realisation: the circumstance of not being a native.
\n“Belonging and remaining a stranger – Observations of a non-native in Ticino”.<\/p>\n
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Talk Friday, 3 June 2022, 7:30 pm Monte Verit\u00e0 Congress and Cultural Centre, Ascona Introduction to the topic “For more than twenty-five years I have lived in Switzerland and always on the border. In Basel a few hundred metres to France and Germany, but for the last fifteen years we have been separated by the […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[500,502,132,501,335,209],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays-news","tag-anarchie-en","tag-anarchy","tag-home","tag-monte-verita-en","tag-tessin-en","tag-ticino"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}