Kulturabend in der Botschaft Safiental: Lesung «Falätscha» mit Stefan Gartmann

After the dance party at Turrahus, the dairyman, the shepherd and the farmhand wake up hungover on Alp Falätscha. One is missing: Zusenn Hitsch. Finally, they find him dead – with a pitchfork in his chest. Instead of calling the police, the three men make a momentous decision: they bury the body. 28 years later, Inspector Calonder takes up the investigation. Why didn't anyone miss Hitsch? What happened on the alp back then? And how is it that an entire valley has remained silent for so long?

At the reading from his debut novel "Falätscha. Vom Schweigen in den Bergen" at the Safiental Embassy, Stefan Gartmann takes the audience on a story about guilt, silence and the secrets of a remote valley.

About the author:
Stefan Gartmann, born in 1962 in Santa Maria im Münstertal, spent his childhood and youth in Poschiavo and the St. Gallen Rhine Valley. After attending the monastery school in Disentis, he studied Philosophy I at the University of Basel, majoring in German studies, as well as Italian literature and modern general history as minor subjects.

During his high school years, he worked as a farmhand on Alp Falätscha in the Safien Valley during the summer holidays. After graduating, he returned to his home canton and worked as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR) in Chur for over thirty years. His close connection to the Safien Valley gives the story a special local connection.