Menoa Stauffer

Menoa Stauffer

Menoa Stauffer studies Contemporary History and German Language and Literature at the University of Zurich and is part of the editorial team of the student magazine Elfenbeintürmer (etü).

Mickey Mouse goes up in flames

Menoa Stauffer 13.01.2023 Comics smoulder, books burn: in Aargau in 1965, mounds of so-called “trashy fiction” ended up on a fire. The campaign was called “Fight the trash", and it was intended to set the scene for further book burnings. But the scheme backfired.
Book burning in Switzerland in 1965: the people of Brugg look on as so-called “inferior” literature – comics, cheap novels and tabloid newspapers – is consigned to the flames.