The Brenner Pass: A swathe of mountains in an idyllic landscape and a border crossing between Austria and Italy. Eighty years ago, a relatively unknown crime took place here. High-ranking Nazi officials like Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann fled the Allies' grasp and their just punishment on secret smugglers' routes across the green border, first to Italy and from there to the world. And they had help from the local population. Miriam Unterthiner's new play "Blood Bread" is about the so-called "Rat Line," as this escape route was dubbed. It will receive the Kleist Prize for Young Dramatic Artists in 2025 and will premiere at Theater Aachen. The "Blood Bread" is a metaphor for repressed guilt: The soil on which this happened produces the bread we are meant to eat today. Can we chew, swallow, and digest it? Or can we no longer get it down? Poetically condensed and at the same time concrete, virtuosic and powerful, with subtle humor and great images, "Blutbrot" literally digs into the past and builds a bridge to the present.

Blood bread

Kammer

In Maeterlinck’s famous symbolist play »The Blue Bird« we meet the siblings Tyltyl and Mytyl who, accompanied by a fairy, are searching for the blue bird, which is known to bring happiness and prosperity. Their magical journey leads them to the lands of the night, of memories and of happiness.

Janina Sachau

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Sep 17, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

Blood bread · Theater Aachen

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Sep 17, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

Blood bread · Theater Aachen

Dec 17, 2024 - Apr 2, 2025

The Blue Bird · Theater Aachen

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