Flurina Badel has received the 2025 Graubünden Literature Prize for her first novel, "Tschiera." In it, she addresses a topic that is currently particularly acute in Graubünden: old houses are becoming objects of luxury and speculation, while there are no longer any homes for the local population. Flurina Badel has written a social novel that tells, from various perspectives, about culture being degraded to folklore and the dynamics of money that are transforming the Lower Engadine socially and culturally.

Flurina Badel is a writer, visual artist, and activist. She initially trained as a journalist before completing her Master of Fine Arts at the Institute of Art Gender Nature at the University of Applied Arts in Basel and studying at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2014, she has worked as a visual artist in collaboration with Jérémie Sarbach. In 2019, she published her first volume of poetry, "tinnitus tropic," which won the Swiss Literature Prize in 2020 and has been widely translated. In 2024, she published her first novel, "Tschiera," which won the Canton of Graubünden's Literature Prize in 2025. Flurina Badel is the mother of one son and lives with her family in Ftan in the Lower Engadine.

In the series "Living the Engadin," journalist Fadrina Hofmann talks to Flurina Badel about "Tschiera," about her involvement with the Anna Florin Association.

The event takes place in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Research Graubünden ikg.

Admission free.
Duration approx. 60 minutes