Actor

Kim de l'Horizon 's new play is a reimagining of the fairy tale of the Little Mermaid. It is a story about the longing for a different body, the dream of true love, and the price demanded by social advancement.

The little mermaids

Vidmar Ballettsaal

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

“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

Be someone else for a night? It’s not just frustrated Rosalinde and her employee Adele, who would much rather have been an artist, who dream of it. Together with Gabriel von Eisenstein, who has just been sentenced to prison, and Dr. Falke, who is bent on revenge, they go to Prince Orlofsky's crazy ball. Here, of all places, all the masks drop. Austrian director Anna Bernreitner stages this most Viennese of all operettas in costumes by renowned fashion designer Arthur Arbesser. It’s an evening with champagne moods, missed opportunities, and the lightness inherent in darkness, musically directed by the Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti.

Actor

Lucia Kotikova

Events

Past events

Jun 27, 2026

The little mermaids · Bühnen Bern

May 16, 2026

Blood Book · Bühnen Bern

Future and recently performed repertoire

Fate 1 in The Bat by Strauss

Opernhaus Zürich

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