Vita

Flurina Badel es autura, artista ed intermediatura da cultura. Davo üna prüma scolaziun da schurnalissem ed ün stüdi da communicaziun e lavur publica, ha ella lavurà tanter oter sco moderatura e cineasta. Flurina Badel ha absolt il Master of Fine Arts a l’Institut Art Gender Nature da la HGK FHNW a Basilea ed ha stübgià l’Institut per art litterara da l’Università d’art applichada a Vienna. Daspö 2014 lavura ella i’l duo Badel/Sarbach chi’d es gnü uondrà tanter oter cul Premi Manor 2019. Flurina Badel es la redactura respunsabla per l’emischiun «Impuls» da Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha, ella chüra e moderescha occurrenzas culturalas sco per exaimpel il festival LitteraturA Nairs e Weltfilmtage Thusis. L’on 2019 es cumparü seis prüm tom da poesia «tinnitus tropic» (editionmevinapuorger, Turich). Quel es gnü premià cul Premi Svizzer da Litteratura 2020. Flurina Badel es statta tanter oter stipendiata da Wintertuin (2024), da la Fondation Jan Michalski (2023), victura dal Premi Term Bel 2022 e dal premi OpenNet dals Dis da Litteratura a Soloturn 2018.

Flurina Badel is a writer, visual artist and activist. One of the best-known contemporary Romansh writers, she initially trained as a journalist before completing her Master of Fine Arts at the Institute Art Gender Nature of the HGK FHNW in Basel, and studying at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Since 2014, she has worked as a visual artist in collaboration with Jérémie Sarbach. As part of the Badel/Sarbach duo, she won the Manor Art Prize in 2019. That same year, she published her first volume of poetry «tinnitus tropic» (editionmevinapuorger, Zurich), which won the Swiss Literature Prize in 2020, and has been widely translated. Her other awards include the OpenNet Prize of the Solothurn Literature Festival (2018), and the Premi Term Bel (2022). In 2023 she was awarded a literary fellowship at the Fondation Jan Michalski.

Flurina Badel often creates and performs in collaboration with both musicians and other artists as for example with Fred Frith and Heike Liss for their Opera «Truth is A Four Letter Word» (comissoned by Sons d’hiver festival, Paris, 2023) and with rapper Alexander Moto for Explore the North Festival (Leeuwarden, 2024).

She is committed to the promotion of literature beyond her own writing. Since 2016 she has directed the Romansh literature program «Impuls» at Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha. In addition, she moderates and curates events such as the festival LitteraturA Nairs, and initiated the establishment of an institute for Romansh literature.

As an activist in Switzerland, she has been a strong political advocate on the local and national level for the liveability of small villages.

Bibliografia (selecziun) / Bibliography (selection):

  • «Tschiera» roman, Chasa Editura Rumantscha, Cuira, 2024
  • «tinnitus tropic | tropischer tinnitus» poesia, tradüt cun Ruth Gantert, Edition Howeg, Turich, 2022
  • «üert fomantà» poesia, traducziuns: Denise Mützenberg, Édition Les Troglodytes, 2021
  • «tinnitus tropic» poesia, editionmevinapuorger, 2019

Texts in antologias:

  • «Amur. Poesias 1648 – 2025» antologia, Chasa Editura Rumantscha, Cuira, 2025
  • «Aruè» antologia, traducziun: Denise Mützenberg, Editions d’en bas, Lausanne, 2022
  • «El tiempo en que vivimos» antologia, traducziun: Jessica Zuan, Editores Naranjo, Columbia, 2022
  • «La bocca d’luf es s-chüra» antologia, Chasa Editura Rumantscha, Cuira, 2019
  • «Aruè. Poésie romanche» antologia, traducziun: Denise Mützenberg, Editions Samizdat, 2015
  • «S14 SvizzeraSchweizSuisseSvizra» prosa, Gabriele Capelli Editore, 2014
  • «Moderne Poesie in der Schweiz» antologia, cun autotraducziuns, Limmat-Verlag, Zürich, 2013
  • «Neue Texte aus der Schweiz» antologia, cun autotraducziuns, Solothurner Literaturtage, 2008
  • «Amurellas» antologia, Chasa Paterna 125, Uniun dals Grischs, 2006

Ulteriurs Texts sun cumparüts in magazins e revistas sco per exaimpel divers texts in l’annala da l’Uniun per Literatura Rumantscha «Litteratura» o texts tradüts in diversas linguas sco in l’annala «Viceversa – Wildwege» (2022), illa revista d’art plurilingua «Ouroboros» (Nr.5, Lyon, 2022), aint illa revista per litteratura ed art «Ostragehege» (Nr. 97, Germania, 2021) o pel proget «10’000 words» (Diaphanes, Berlina, 2019) e daspö 2006 as poja udir prosa cuorta da Flurina Badel in l’emischun «Impuls» da RTR.

Further texts have been published in magazines and anthologies such as the yearbooks «Litteratura» of the Uniun per Literatura Rumantscha or in the yearbook «Viceversa – Wildwege» (2022), in the multilingual art magazine «Ouroboros» (No. 5 and 6, Lyon, 2022), in the journal for literature «Ostragehege» (No. 97, Germany, 2021) or for the project «10’000 words» (Diaphanes, Berlin, 2019) and since 2006 short prose by Flurina Badel can be heard in the RTR programme «Impuls».

©Juliette Chrétien