The thirtieth year of Ingeborg Bachmann

"Who am I when I strip away everything that has been made of me?" (Ingeborg Bachmann)

Petra Morzé & Tilman Tuppy
Claudia Kaufmann-Freßner | Version

A young man from a good background - life offers him endless opportunities and he seizes and rejects them in equal measure. But his 29th birthday and the start of his thirtieth year show him the threshold on which he stands, demanding the step from seemingly eternal youth to the "seriousness of life". As he takes stock of the past, present and future, reassesses the people around him and examines the standards within himself, he loses the here and now - and almost loses his life too.

Tilman Tuppy and Petra Morzé read Ingeborg Bachmann's famous story, which, published in 1961, is one of the most important texts of German literature after 1945. And even if "50 is the new 30" today, Bachmann's captivating portrayal of the ambivalences of our existence has lost none of its urgency. Are we ready "when it finally comes"?

Petra Morzé and Tilman Tuppy have already shone on the stage of the Stadttheater at the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden in Bernhard, Turrini and Schnitzler.