"The Thirtieth Year" by Ingeborg Bachmann

Petra Morzé & Tilman Tuppy Claudia Kaufmann-Freßner | Adaptation "Who am I, if I strip away everything that has been made of me?" (Ingeborg Bachmann) A young man from a good background – life offers him endless possibilities, and he seizes and discards them equally extravagantly. However, his 29th birthday and the entrance into his thirtieth year reveal to him the threshold he stands at, demanding the step from seemingly eternal youth to the "seriousness of life." As he takes stock of the past, present, and future, reevaluates the people around him, and examines the standards within himself, he loses the here and now – and almost his life as well. Tilman Tuppy and Petra Morzé read Ingeborg Bachmann's famous story, which, published in 1961, is considered one of the most important texts of German literature after 1945. And even if today "50 is the new 30," Bachmann's compelling depiction of the ambiguities of our existence has lost none of its intensity. Are we ready for "when finally, finally comes"? Petra Morzé and Tilman Tuppy have already shone on the stage of the Stadttheater in Gmunden during the Salzkammergut Festival with works by Bernhard, Turrini, and Schnitzler.