Fritz Senn

I just start immediately.

This place is a fairly small place.

It used to be a bourgeois apartment.

an old building in the old part of town.

The foundation houses one of the largest, if not the largest, research library on Joyce.

It comprises nearly 10,000 books and journals.

And the core of this library, about 2,000 books, are from Fritz's private Joyce library.

So the foundation's history started in the 1970s and it started with a Cold War story.

There was this hotel on Dame Street, Jury's Hotel, which was demolished in the 1970s.

And part of its interiors were put to auction, among them Jury's Antique Bar in late Victorian style, one of the precious parts of that hotel.

And a Swiss guy took part in that auction.

a man named Albert Bachmann.

And it was actually him who won the bid.

So he purchased it and shipped it to Switzerland.

And Albert Bachmann was an interesting figure, rather dubious character.

He was an officer in the Swiss army, in the military secret service, actually.

And he was also a fanatic cold warrior.

So out of fear that Albert

The Soviet Union might invade Switzerland or start an atomic war.

He made plans for a Swiss government in exile.