Blutbuch

In the organizer's words:

Kim identifies neither as a man nor as a woman. Having grown up in a shabby Swiss suburb, Kim now lives in Zurich, has escaped the petty structures of her origins and feels comfortable in her non-binary body and her own sexuality. But then her grandmother falls ill with dementia and Kim begins to come to terms with the past: Why are there only fragmentary memories of her own childhood? Why is her grandmother barely able to distance herself from her sister, who died at an early age? And what happened to the great-aunt who disappeared as a young woman?

Blutbuch tells of identity, family entanglements and social norms - in Florentina Tautu's production as a powerful monologue, embodied by the actress Lucy Wirth. The narrative character resists the culture of maternal silence and investigates the female bloodline. She moves through biographies, memories and collective traumas. It is about searching, becoming, finding.

The novel Blutbuch was awarded the German and Swiss Book Prize in 2022. Kim de l'Horizon, the first non-binary person to receive this honor, has created a literary masterpiece. Powerful, poetic and radically personal.

We invite you to discover new spaces for thinking and feeling.

Play: Lucy Wirth

Director, text version: Florentina Tautu

Production management, Outside Eye: Stephanie Tschunko

Set design: Sarah Schmid

Music: Severin Rauch

Video art: Janik Valler

Light, sound: Moritz Haase

Technology: Anna Palma

Assistant director: Pauline Mainzer

Production assistance: Lilly Helmel

Performance rights: schaefersphilippen™, Theater und Medien GbR, Cologne

Press: Barbara Fleischmann Barbara Fleischmann

Age recommendation from 16 years.

TW: The production contains depictions of explicit sexual acts and sensitive content.

A balancing act production, supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

Price information:

22€ Normal rate 18€ Reduced rate I: pensioners, Munich Pass, colleagues 12€ Reduced rate II: students, young people under 18, severely disabled pass