Director

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

Now it's time to stop!"

Well, this could get interesting! Grandma died very old and very happily, but she left her family such precise instructions for her funeral that they're now facing several problems: Ludwigslust Palace isn't available for Grandma's service, the undertaker they wanted is now a struggling DJ in Güstrow, waiting for his big break, half the family is allergic to Grandma's favorite flowers (which Grandma knew, of course), and the eulogist can't come because his dog has depression. But Grandma's most unfulfillable wish is for harmony and peace among her loved ones. At least for one day! As fate would have it, in the old, musty community center where the family gathers, bad jokes, generational sensitivities, weariness of change and accusations all come together, along with an irrational but latent fear of being overrun by foreigners and the arrogance of a newly acquired Berlin environment that teaches them everything that's wrong with the people back home in East Germany. If Grandma had known that, she wouldn't have died.

Director

Jakob Weiss

Events

Upcoming events

17 - 26 Apr, 2026

Cultural center, mon amour · Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater

Past events

Sep 17, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026

Blood bread · Theater Aachen

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