When does Blood Book take place in Düsseldorf?

The performance takes place on Saturday, November 28, 2026, at 8 PM.

Where will Blood Book be performed?

The performance takes place in the Small House of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus at Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz 1, 40211 Düsseldorf.

How much does a ticket cost?

Tickets are available for purchase starting at 11.30 euros according to published ticket information.

Who is on stage for Blood Book?

Lucia Kotikova performs and shapes the production based on a version and direction by Sebastian Schug.

What is Blood Book about?

The piece tells of a non-binary narrative figure grappling with family history, the dementia of their grandmother, gender orders, and the search for their own language.

Is Blood Book a play or a reading?

Blood Book is a theater production based on the award-winning novel by Kim de l’Horizon, blending literary storytelling with performative theater.

Kim de l’Horizon reads Blood Book Düsseldorf 2026

Name: Blood Book
Start: 2026-11-28T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-28T21:45:00+01:00
Location: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus – Kleines Haus

Blood Book: A powerful journey through origin, body, and memory

On November 28, 2026, the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus presents Blood Book by Kim de l’Horizon. The production combines autofictional storytelling, theatrical physicality, and a radically mobile language into an intense literary experience about family, gender, shame, and liberation.

A family story becomes a linguistic quest

At the center is a non-binary narrative figure grappling with their own origins in light of their grandmother's dementia. The family history unfolds like a space of memory: A narrative web of high emotional and formal density emerges between the female bloodline, suppressed traumas, and the search for a language for one's own body.

Kim de l’Horizon's award-winning linguistic art

The debut novel Blood Book, published in 2022 by DuMont Verlag, was awarded the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize, and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize. The jury of the German Book Prize praised the enormous creative energy of the text and its search for new narratives for body and identity. The novel's form navigates between vivid scenes, essayistic memoir, and rhythmically condensed prose.

From page to stage

For the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the novel has been adapted into a stage version. Lucia Kotikova performs and shapes the evening based on a version and direction by Sebastian Schug. The production transforms the literary inner world into an immediate author encounter: voice, movement, rhythm, and an intimate reading atmosphere make the novel's motifs physically palpable.

An evening between theater, literature, and cultural discourse

Blood Book explores the question of how identity can be narrated when inherited categories no longer hold. The production focuses on family influences, queer self-determination, and the possibility of opening new spaces through language. The result is not a classic illusion drama, but a contemporary form of theater where literary quality and performative presence intertwine.

The audience can expect a concentrated theatrical experience with poetic linguistic art, social relevance, and a stubborn, formally open narrative. Those who experience Blood Book live encounter a work that productively dissolves the boundaries between novel, reading, and theater. Secure your tickets for this extraordinary evening at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus.