The Garage is a cultural meeting place with a stylish ambience that appeals to all age groups. It focuses on word art (literature, spoken word, theatre), social issues (debates, lectures), various musical genres (folk, world, renaissance, baroque, ...
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F. Dürrenmatt: The Valley of Confusion
Scenes from the novel *Durcheinandertal*, a musical reading
Daniel Fueter, reading aloud
Vera Kappeler, at the piano
Peter Conradin Zumthor, drums, percussion
In the midst of the Second World War, twenty-one-year-old Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) begins to paint the attic in his parents’ house. ‘A jumble in my memory of anger, protest, scorn and mockery,’ he wrote in 1981. In 1989, his final novel, *Durcheinandertal*, was published: a visionary grotesque, a provocation.
He had not mellowed with age. His country, the Durcheinandertal Switzerland, gave him no peace. In this reading, we visit – in dialogue with music and counterpointed by it – the imaginary “Durcheinandertal”: Laughter and horror – the hallmarks of Friedrich Dürrenmatt – are to be expected…
Doors open: 4.30 pm
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Sunday, November 29, 2026
17:00 - 18:30 o'clock
CHF 35.00
£35 / £30 (members) / £10 (children, students, apprentices (under 25), Kulturlegi)
Daniel Fueter, reading aloud
Vera Kappeler, on the grand piano
Peter Conradin Zumthor, drums, percussion
Garage Wetzikon
Bahnhofstrasse 24
8620 Wetzikon
076 344 31 27
info@garagewetzikon.ch
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The garage is also accessible for people with disabilities. Access and toilet are wheelchair-accessible.
