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BLÖSCH

BLÖSCH

by Beat Sterchi
adapted for the stage by Mike Müller
DIRECTED BY: Rafael Sanchez

PFAUEN
WORLD PREMIERE: 18.09.2025

"In an instant, he knew loneliness. For the first time in his life, he felt small, foreign, and different."

Under the suspicious gaze of villagers, barely speaking the language, Spaniard Ambrosio arrives in Switzerland to work on a farm.

The tone is rough, the days long. Yet between man and animal, a deep bond emerges. Eagerly, Ambrosio adapts to this shadowy yet intimate world where animals have names—and one commands particular awe: Blösch. The Leitkuh (lead cow). Beautiful and strong, willful and stubborn, her rank unchallenged. But the idyll soon shatters.

Neighboring farms now use milking machines, revolutionizing agriculture and production. Seven years later, Ambrosio and Blösch reunite—in a slaughterhouse.

Swiss author Beat Sterchi traces their journey with raw, obsessively detailed prose and an unerring eye for the mundane. Wryly dismantling rural romanticism, he unflinchingly exposes the nightmare of the slaughterhouse. The novel’s literary brilliance and enduring relevance (first published 1983) continue to captivate.

In their signature collaboration, Rafael Sanchez and Mike Müller adapt this text for the reopening of Pfauens, transforming its exploration of human, animal, and environmental exploitation into urgent questions about modern society.

 

Supported by the D&K DubachKeller-Stiftung

THUR
18.09.2025
WORLD PREMIERE

Opening Night Celebration

SUN
21.09.2025

Introduction 2.30 pm

TUE
23.09.2025
MON
29.09.2025

Introduction 7.30 pm

THEATRE MONDAY

THUR
02.10.2025
WED
08.10.2025

Introduction 7.30 p.m.

FRI
10.10.2025
TUE
21.10.2025
FRI
24.10.2025

Introduction 7.30 p.m.

SAT
01.11.2025
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Mouataz Alshaltouh
Alexander Angeletta
Margot Gödrös
Rahel Hubacher
Mike Müller
Michael Neuenschwander
Matthias Neukirch
Karin Pfammatter
Mirjam Rast
Florian Voigt
Matyas Gödrös
Cornelius Borgolte
Live music
Directed by:
Stage Design:
Costume design:
Composition & Live Music:
Lighting design:
Dramaturgy:
Assistant director:
Lea Oltmanns
Stage design assistant:
Malin Speicher
Lina Sofie Staudinger
costume design assistant:
Mirjam Ophüls
Anna-Thea Jäger
Directing intern:
Annika Röthlin
Stage design intern:
Iulia Visenescu
Costume design intern:
Finia Sonderegger
Stage Manager:
Aleksandar Sascha Dinevski
Prompting:
Rita von Horváth
Yodel coach:
Johanna Schaub
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