Habitus – Waseem Hussain, Sascha Reichstein

WASEEM HUSSAIN
Novella

SASCHA REICHSTEIN
Photographs

Habitus

«Writer Waseem Hussain and artist Sascha Reichstein demonstrate in ‹Habitus› that a literary work can also present itself as a bibliophile object – a narrative about origin and identity and a Gesamtkunstwerk of prose and photography.» Daniel Graf, «Republik»

In the calendar

December 5, 2025: Book launch and exhibition at VIKTORIA, Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna (Austria).

November 30, 2025: Zurich premiere of the book «Habitus» at Orell Füssli Zurich Kramhof.

October 23, 2025: A House of Imagination: Marc Djizmedjian, Sara Wegmann and Waseem Hussain in Conversation. Literature Festival «Zürich liest» (Switzerland).

September 6, 2025: Reading and author conversation at the Kulturnacht Grenchen (Switzerland).

July 23, 2025: Book launch and author conversation at the Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg (Austria).

Reviews & interviews

Music for A Guest

Irene Grüter in conversation with Waseem Hussain on Swiss Radio SRF

Book of the Month

October 2025, Swiss Bibliophile Society

Who we are – or think we are

Review by Bettina Gugger on cültür.ch

Without ship or land

Review by Sonja Bonin on literatur.review

«Habitus» is much more than a book

Review by Gallus Frei on literaturblatt.ch

Without Habitus — Entre nous, Waseem Hussain!

Interview in the e-magazine «Telegramme für Literaur»

PS Zeitung

Journey to the land of origin as a captain without a ship

Review by Sibylle Elam in the «P.S. Zeitung»

Video
Habitus

With an essay by Silvia Henke

Hardcover trimmed flush to the book block and thread-sewn. Four-colour sheet-fed offset printed on two paper stocks. With belly band.

Graphic design & typesetting: Hanna Williamson. Editing: Alice Grünfelder. Proofreading: Lydia Zeller.

144 pages, including approx. 90 pages of color illustrations. 25.2 x 18.4 cm.

Publisher: editionR (ars remata, Switzerland)

Printing: J. E. Wolfensberger AG. Binding: Bubu AG.

ISBN: 978-3-9526200-0-7