Monte Rosa

The mountain is calling! – Mountaineers compete under the snow-covered, glittering mountain peak of Monte Rosa. With merciless optimism, they greedily chase summit after summit. Encounters remain random, faces are quickly forgotten. Here, one's own values and manners apply, the decisive criteria are health, age and fitness.

In her current play, the award-winning Austrian playwright Teresa Dopler develops a view of the Alps that is as funny as it is thought-provoking, oscillating between romantic beauty and global destruction. And Dopler knows what she is writing about: "For me, this mountain world is above all a fictional world, a closed universe and basically also a very absurd setting. The paths, peaks and valleys are all real, but the distances and dimensions are strangely shifted. The characters are not conventional mountaineers either. They've been in the mountains for as long as they can remember, and I almost have the impression that you're dealing with a species of their own, as if they had crawled out of a crevice at some point."

Like Chur, the city of Bolzano is located in the middle of the Alpine region and is surrounded by a linguistically similar cultural landscape: German, Italian and Ladin are the three languages spoken in South Tyrol. The Chur Theatre and the United Theatres of Bolzano are planning a regular collaboration from the 2024/25 season.

Language: German
From 12 years.