Two women writers in dialogue about their writing

In their most recent works, Miriam Unterthiner and Anna Rottensteiner retrace history: they tell of repressed guilt and collective silence, of women’s lives shaped by heteronomous determination. In Blutbrot, the village remains silent about its role in helping Nazi criminals to escape, while the landscape itself begins to speak.



In Mutterbande, women’s voices echo across generations, recounting lives marked by uprooting and by a longing for belonging. Both works interweave memory and space, body and history, making visible what continues to act beneath the surface. They speak of a “between” — between places, times, identities — and of how literature can give form to this state of suspension.