Anna Rottensteiner meets Miriam Unterthiner – Two authors in dialogue

Anna Rottensteiner meets Miriam Unterthiner

Two authors in dialogue about their writing



In their most recent works, Miriam Unterthiner and Anna Rottensteiner retrace history: they speak of suppressed guilt and collective silence, of stories of women marked by hetero-determination. In Blutbrot, the village remains silent about its role in helping Nazi criminals escape, while the landscape itself seems to speak.



In Mutterbande, the voices of women echo across generations, recounting lives shaped by uprooting and the desire for belonging. Both works intertwine memory and space, body and history, making visible what continues to act beneath the surface. They tell of an “in-between” — between places, times, identities — and how literature can give shape to this state of suspension.



Miriam Unterthiner. Blutbrot

(Play, edition laurin, 2025)



Anna Rottensteiner. Mutterbande

(Novel, edition laurin, 2025)



February 3, 2026, 6:00 PM

Upper foyer, Waltherhaus Bolzano

Free admission



Event jointly organized by the Südtiroler Künstlerbund and the Dr. Friedrich Teßmann Provincial Library.



The event will be held in German.