Week-long summer intensive course in creative writing: between memory and imagination, with Patrizia Barbuiani and Markus Zohner

Finding and rediscovering pleasure in writing, making a connection between memory and imagination through creative writing, finding new ways to release an imaginative flow and turn it into writing, into characters, situations, worlds, stories. Combining exercises and discussions, you will examine the nature of memory and imagination and the creative chemistry of their interaction.
What is required to succeed in writing a story? How can one formulate one's own memoir, what are the laws, pitfalls and tricks in the quest for personal writing? How do you manage to develop a style of your own and how do you let people discover all these worlds unknown to us, before you start tracing the first words on the paper?
You will work in a focused, stimulating and relaxed environment. Starting with hands-on exercises, you will develop texts, stories, characters and plots. Together we will analyze both the stories created during the course and important texts from world literature.
Various types of writing will be stimulated and addressed while remaining in the literary sphere, monologues, fictional stories, dialogues, reflections on disparate topics. The work will be approached by individual participants as well as the group, creating synergies that will help create a stimulating and enriching environment to overcome difficulties and dare. Participants will be given a smattering on how to approach reading drafted texts, working individually, in twos or multiples. This course is suitable for anyone who wants to approach writing by putting themselves out there, experimenting, those who have already started on a path as well as those who have never started and want to stimulate their skills, those who are looking for motivation to help them refine and motivate their practice.

The course is taught by Patrizia Barbuiani and Markus Zohner, award-winning writers and theater directors worldwide.
Patrizia Barbuiani has written and edited countless plays and short stories and has published three novels, "La stiratrice" (Manni publishers) and "Il canto degli antenati" (Olive Editions), "La Clownesse dell'Anno del Cane" (Petruska Editions).
Markus Zohner, apart from his writing of texts for the theater, has published travel stories in newspapers and magazines such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Azione, Giornale del Popolo, Transhelvetica. His book "Rediscovering the Ancient Amber Road" has been published in German and Italian.
Patrizia Barbuiani and Markus Zohner recently curated the project Totentanz - the quarantine, an improvised writing project for six artists.

The course is taught in Italian and consists of 25 hours.
From 22.07 to 26.07, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration deadline: 20.07.2024 at ticket office.ch

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