Blutbrot

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by Miriam Unterthiner / Director: Tomas Schweigen / Guest performance Theater am Werk Vienna

Heidelberg Play Market

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Text awarded the Kleist Prize for New Drama 2025 / nomination for the Nachspielpreis

"Blutbrot" brings a chapter of South Tyrol's post-war history that has so far received little attention into the public consciousness: After the end of the Second World War, South Tyroleans helped Nazi criminals such as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele to escape by enabling them to cross the Brenner Pass into Italy (a border pass between the Austrian province of Tyrol and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Alto Adige, which belongs to Italy). The author Miriam Unterthiner chooses a poetic-metaphorical approach to this historically charged topic and has characters such as "The Village", "The Bread" and "The Landscape" appear. "Blutbrot" addresses the deeply rooted mechanisms of collective silence and asks how historical entanglements are inscribed in cultural memory, what responsibility a society bears for its repressed past and what role remembrance plays in the present.

The world premiere of "Blutbrot" was at Theater Aachen in 2025.

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