The Austrian Book Prize Debut 2025 was awarded to Miriam Unterthiner for her drama “Blutbrot”. The book was published by Innsbruck University Press. The award ceremony took place in Vienna on Monday, November 10.
Born in South Tyrol, Unterthiner studied German language and literature and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, as well as German philology and linguistics in Vienna.
“Miriam Unterthiner’s play “Blutbrot” deals with a chapter of South Tyrolean post-war history that has hardly been addressed in literature to date: the escape of Nazi criminals across the Brenner Pass. Figures such as Eichmann and Mengele passed through a region on their way to Italy and on to South America that is often portrayed today as an idyllic landscape and whose involvement in these events was long suppressed. Unterthiner approaches this difficult subject matter not with documentary realism, but with great poetic anger and force.”
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