Theater Aachen is a house of art, social debate, encounters, and much more. Is it also a haunted house? After all, its column-lined walls are now turning 200 years old. Wilke Weermann will explore the terribly beautiful stories they might tell. The author and director is known for his atmospherically densely composed theater evenings, citing genres such as science fiction and horror and contrasting them with subtle, subtle humor. He received the 2023 Kurt Hübner Directing Award for his play "Unheim," which explores the debate about housing shortages as a futuristic-comedy ghost story. At Theater Aachen, Weermann will devote himself to the great American master of gothic literature, Edgar Allan Poe, weaving his most gripping tales into a new horror story about dark family secrets and repressed guilt.

The Fall of the House of Usher

Theater Aachen

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

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Wilke Weermann combines stories by the great American master of horror literature Edgar Allan Poe to create a new horror story about dark family secrets and repressed guilt.

The director and author duo Stuhler/Koslowski, known for their boulevardesque discursive comedies, go on a literary-archaeological mission with our ensemble and bring the almost forgotten work of a female author from Aachen to the light of day.

Elke Borkenstein

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 17, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

Blood bread · Theater Aachen

Oct 17 - Dec 13, 2025

The Fall of the House of Usher · Theater Aachen

Past events

Oct 17 - Dec 13, 2025

The Fall of the House of Usher · Theater Aachen

Sep 17, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

Blood bread · Theater Aachen

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