MIRKO BEETSCHEN
Bel Veder
Trapped in the mountains
Press & awards
Mirko Beetschen is awarded with the literary prize
of Bern's Office of Culture 2019
The Canton of Bern's Office of Culture awards seven writers in 2019. The prizes go to Mirko Beetschen, Martin Bieri / Ariane von Graffenried, Franz Dodel, Jürg Halter, Rolf Hermann, Li Mollet and Paul Wittwer. The public award ceremony will take place on June 26 2019 in the Vidmarhallen, Liebefeld/Bern.
With "Bel Veder", author Mirko Beetschen successfully creates a visually stunning and thrilling Gothic Novel, in which he playfully messes with the reader's expectations. The setting is an old grand hotel in the Swiss Alps in the autumn of 1946.
Office of Culture / Literature Commission, 28.05.2019
With "Bel Veder", author Mirko Beetschen successfully creates a visually stunning and thrilling Gothic Novel, in which he playfully messes with the reader's expectations. The setting is an old grand hotel in the Swiss Alps in the autumn of 1946.
Office of Culture / Literature Commission, 28.05.2019
I hate to watch horror movies in a remote placeJournalist and writer Mirko Beetschen has written a gothic novel set in an abandoned hotel on the fictitious Finsteralp in the Bernese Oberland. Here a handful of relatives meet to claim the inheritance of their deceased grandfather - and strange things start happening.
Interview on Radio SRF1 |
(c) SRF Regionaljournal
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No bedtime story“(…) Mirko Beetschen proves to be a talented narrator who knows how to capture moods accurately and make atmospheres come alive almost physically in his dense language.”
Der Bund, 15.10.2018 |
Nightmare hotel Mirko Beetschen builds up the tension very skilfully and weaves in new, surprising plotlines (…). And of course the story is so gripping and creepy that you can hardly put the book down.”
Berner Zeitung / 08.10.2018 |
Ghosts of
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The gothic hotel in the Bernese Oberland“With his second novel Mirko Beetschen (…) has a go at the venerable genre of the gothic story. And he does that really well.”
20 Minuten, 03.11.2018 |
Readings
LITERATOUR 2019
READING TOUR WITH THE WINNERS OF THE BERN LITERARY PRICES
SAT, 05.10., 20h30, Hotel Regina, Mürren
THU, 31.10., 20h00, Schwarzenburg Schloss
SUN, 10.11. 11h00, Spiez Bibliothek
MAY 02 2019 / BIBLIOTHEK BREITENRAIN
MARCH 02 2019 / LITERAARE, THUNER LITERATURFESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 24 2019 / VERANDA WOHNEN & MAISON BERGDORF LADEN EIN, INTERLAKEN
FEBRUARY 13 2019 / DORFBIBLIOTHEK REICHENBACH, REICHENBACH
JANUARY 15 2019 / ONO, BERNE
NOVEMBER 08 2018 / BUCHHANDLUNG AM HOTTINGERPLATZ, ZURICH
OCTOBER 19 2018 / BUCHHANLDUNG BÖDELI, INTERLAKEN
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 25 2018 / KOSMOS, ZURICH
MARCH 02 2019 / LITERAARE, THUNER LITERATURFESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 24 2019 / VERANDA WOHNEN & MAISON BERGDORF LADEN EIN, INTERLAKEN
FEBRUARY 13 2019 / DORFBIBLIOTHEK REICHENBACH, REICHENBACH
JANUARY 15 2019 / ONO, BERNE
NOVEMBER 08 2018 / BUCHHANDLUNG AM HOTTINGERPLATZ, ZURICH
OCTOBER 19 2018 / BUCHHANLDUNG BÖDELI, INTERLAKEN
PREMIERE: SEPTEMBER 25 2018 / KOSMOS, ZURICH
hardback with dust jacket, 13 x 21 cm, approx. 450 pages cover image: Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Eidgenössisches Archiv für Denkmalpflege (EAD): Archiv Photoglob-Wehrli CHF 32.–/EUR 29.– ISBN 978-3-7296-0997-6 ALSO AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The author cleverly arranges the motifs and stylistic elements of a classic Gothic novel into an atmospherically dense, gripping thriller that is most certainly no bedtime story.
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Autumn 1946. The ancient owner of an abandoned grand hotel in the Bernese Alps disappears without a trace and is declared dead. His niece Eleanor arrives with her twin sister Violet from Baltimore to claim the inheritance and meets the members of her European family.
Until the opening of the will the small group settles within the empty rooms of the remote hotel palace and dreams of revived grandeur. Eleanor, however, feels increasingly threatened by the strange environment. The mountains as well as the abandoned halls and corridors of the hotel unsettle her. Is the old building really as empty as it seems. When a terrible accident happens and an unexpected snowstorm cuts the hotel off, the situation escalates. |
Mirko Beetschen
author, journalist & entrepreneur
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