• Venue: Strauhof, Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich
• Time: Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Detailed Program

What a wonderful present from the Strauhof team, on the occasion of our 40th anniversary! In the course of the day, the Zurich James Joyce Foundation will be allowed to use all three floors of the historic Strauhof building, to celebrate with some of our key partner organizations:

Ground Floor: Room 1

Translation House Looren

Block 1

• 12.00–12.10: Kurzlesung Irma Wehrli
• 12.15–12.25: Kurzinput Rassismuskritische Sprache (Sonja Bonin)
• 12.30–13.15: Rückübersetzungsspiel (Simon Pare & Chantal Wright / Irma Wehrli & Niklas Fischer)

Block 2

• 15.00–15.10: Kurzlesung Anke Burger
• 15.15–15.25: Input Kinderbuchübersetzen Karl Rühmann
• 15.30–16.15: Gläserner Übersetzer Ulrich Blumenbach

Visit the website of the Translation House Looren.

Ground Floor: Room 2

Weiter Schreiben Schweiz

How to prevent exiled authors from falling silent?

Weiter Schreiben Schweiz was founded in 2020, to support and promote the work of exiled authors in Switzerland.

In May 2025, the Zurich James Joyce Foundation and Weiter Schreiben Schweiz started to collaborate on a series of events entitled “Poetographies: Literary Dialogues at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation.”

Just drop by to learn more about the organization!

1st Floor: Room 1

Cabaret Voltaire

During World War I, Joyce was far from the only artistic revolutionary to live and work in Zurich. At the Cabaret Voltaire in Spiegelgasse 1, the Dadaists were busy redefining the meaning of art through their performances, poems, and visual art.

The Cabaret Voltaire functions simultaneously as an artists’ space, a center of expertise and a site for Dada-related activities, as well as a platform for contemporary cultural creation and relevant debates.

Two Dada experts will answer questions and present some items from the Cabaret Voltaire’s unique collection:

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Lorena Harauzek;
• 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Salome Hohl.

JULL – Junges Literaturlabor

The Junge Literaturlabor (JULL) is a public space for writing as well as a center of expertise on creative writing. At the JULL, professional authors work with children and young adults. Schoolkids from the city and the canton of Zurich as well as from further afield visit the JULL’s premises at Bärengasse 20, 8001 Zurich. Facilities include a stage as well as a recording studio.

The JULL’s participation in the open-house event concludes a successful collaboration with the Zurich James Joyce Foundation that included a public reading that took place at the Literaturhaus Zürich on June 12, 2025.

On the Open House Day, the group Extramundana will conduct a writing workshop – and everybody is free to join!

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Aldous Huxley Centre Zurich

Aldous Huxley is one of the greatest novelists and essayists of English Literature. His work is characterized by inter-disciplinary thinking; he was a true polymath who combined mastery of the arts with a profound understanding of psychology, religion, philosophy and mysticism.

The Aldous Huxley Centre Zurich was established in 2023 and aims to interest young people in reading and thinking out of the box. It offers

It offers virtual tours, but on-site visits are of course also available and can be booked via the contact form.

Zurich James Joyce Foundation

The Zurich James Joyce Foundation was established in 1985 with a view to keeping alive the memory and work of the Irish writer James Joyce for the literary world in general, and in particular for Zurich, where Joyce spent some important creative years and where he died.

During our open-house day, visitors will get a chance to play our card game “Team Nora vs. Team Molly” and to learn more about Joyce’s Zurich poems.