Dramaturge

“Words of hate pay for words of hate. Blood is paid for with blood.” Aeschylus’ Oresteia tells of the devastating consequences of war, of the eternal spiral of violence and revenge. And finally, of the birth of democracy, a “statute that shall be valid for all time.”

The Oresteia

City Theatre, Bern

Kim de l'Horizon's meteoric rise is unparalleled: After her debut novel, *Blutbuch* (Blood Book ), landed on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2022, it was nominated in Switzerland, and after the German Book Prize, it also won the Swiss Book Prize. Since then, Kim de l'Horizon has been causing quite a stir throughout the cultural world – and rightly so.

Blood Book

Vidmarhallen

The work of Basel-based writer and painter Adelheid Duvanel is among the most important literary rediscoveries of recent years. In her socially critical, miniature-like narratives, she describes with great precision and empathy the lives, or rather the survival, of those pushed to the margins of our society. We encounter dreamers, drug addicts, single mothers in precarious circumstances, and lonely outsiders. Her texts always contain both: gentleness and harshness, humor and despair, desires and impositions, urban milieu and magical natural states. And hovering above it all is a quiet jubilation at being alive—still, in spite of everything. "Perhaps Duvanel's work is a kind of school of forgiveness," says literary scholar Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin.

Dramaturge

Julia Fahle

Events

Upcoming events

May 7 - Jun 16, 2026

The Oresteia ·

May 16, 2026

Blood Book · Bühnen Bern

Sep 18, 2026 - Jan 20, 2027

Miscellaneous · Bühnen Bern

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May 7 - Jun 16, 2026

The Oresteia ·

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