Blood Book at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus: Theater About Memory and Identity
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Blood Book: A Poetic Journey Through Memory, Body, and Origin
On October 29, 2026, Blood Book will celebrate its Düsseldorf premiere at the Kleines Haus of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. The stage adaptation of the award-winning novel by Kim de l’Horizon is being created by and with Lucia Kotikova, based on a version and direction by Sebastian Schug.
Between Family History and Self-Discovery
The story at the center moves through the layers of origin, body, and memory. The blood beech becomes the poetic resonance space of a family story: a place where past, injury, and the search for one’s own language overlap. Kim de l’Horizon’s novel received the German and Swiss Book Prize in 2022 and combines autobiographical and autofictional elements with a radically open narrative style.
A Language Beyond Fixed Boundaries
Blood Book resists simple classifications. The language moves between poetry and directness, between humor, pain, and the power of a self-determined identity. Dramaturgically, this creates a theater evening that not only tells a story but makes perception itself the subject.
Lucia Kotikova at the Kleines Haus
Lucia Kotikova brings the monologue to the stage as an actress and artistic co-designer. For her performance in Blood Book, which premiered in Bern in 2024, she was awarded the title of Young Actress of the Year by Theater heute. Her acting combines linguistic precision with physical presence and an immediately effective theatrical atmosphere.
A Stage Experience with Resonance
The production focuses on transgenerational experiences, queer identity, and the question of how a person frees themselves from inherited attributions. The stage design, lighting atmosphere, and acoustics become parts of an open theatrical landscape, where memories emerge, shift, and reassemble.
Conclusion: Blood Book promises a concentrated, poetic, and challenging stage experience about origin, self-development, and the liberating power of one’s own language. Those who want to experience contemporary acting and an unusual dramaturgy live will find a theater evening with lasting resonance at the Kleines Haus.
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