Bayern 2 Prize 2025
Non-mothers, myths and marble – Regina Dürig’s first collection of stories contains a dozen sparkling, surprising stories and looking critically at problems of our time. Emotional, funny and very quirky.
In their own way, the female figures in the stories all raise the question on how to overcome the patriarchal petrification of the world. Regina Dürig uses extensive research to write fictionalised life stories about Alice Kober and Camille Claudel—finding things that are often forgotten in conventional biographies. She has a horseshoe crab and the legendary figure Melusine philosophise about extinction in a strange podcast; a woman delivers a salty monologue on self-determination; and much more.
In Women and Stones, collision takes place on every level and there are no limits to the desire to tell stories. Regina Dürig is able to combine playful nonchalance with poetic elegance and thus creating stories both clever and rich in layered meanings.
The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia awards grants for translations.
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»Regina Dürig’s collection of stories Women and Stones is about women in research, in the art world or as sex dolls on the internet: sometimes light, sometimes bizarre, always astute.« (Clara Gauthey, Bieler Tagblatt)
Women and Stones »is a grande and quirky tale of love, of questioning, of male-dominated structures. With many sentences to remember.« (Welt am Sonntag)
»Different female characters search for ways to overcome the fossilization of the patriarchal world. The author focuses on figures as diverse as the French sculptor and painter Camille Claudel and the legendary figure Melusine.« (nau.ch)
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