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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
approx. 3 hours (including break)
Part 1: 1 hour 20 minutes
Part 2: 1 hour 5 minutes

«Wyt u breit uf am Länge Berg die brävschti Chue, aber dr Ranze het sie weiss Gott bis hingenuse voll Stieregringe!»

Blösch, the magnificent lead cow at Knuchelhof and the pride and joy of the small family farm, is causing the farmer headaches. He eagerly awaits female offspring that he can use for dairy farming in the long term. But year after year, Blösch only produces male calves.

Technological change has long since radically transformed agriculture and its production processes. While neighbouring farms move with the times, Knuchel clings to tradition and craftsmanship. Instead of a milking machine, he brings in a Spaniard. Under the suspicious eyes of the villagers, barely able to speak the foreign language, Ambrosio arrives at the farm. He eagerly adapts to a gloomy, homely world in which he soon feels closer to the animals than to the people, and one person in particular makes a powerful impression on him: Blösch. The picture-postcard idyll is soon over. Seven years later, Ambrosio and Blösch meet again in the slaughterhouse.

Swiss author Beat Sterchi describes their journey with powerful, detail-oriented language and an unerring eye for everyday life. With a wink, he thwarts the romanticisation of rural life and ruthlessly illustrates the nightmare that is the slaughterhouse. The literary brilliance and topicality of the novel, published in 1983, continue to fascinate readers today. In their tried-and-tested, popular duo, Rafael Sanchez and Mike Müller adapt the text into Swiss German for the opening of the Pfauen theatre, translating the exploitation of humans, animals and the environment into modern questions of social coexistence.

Supported by the D&K DubachKeller-Stiftung

Karin Pfammatter, Mirjam Rast, Alexander Angeletta, Michael Neuenschwander, Rahel Hubacher © Krafft Angerer

Margot Gödros, Karin Pfammatter, Rahel Hubacher, Matthias Neukirch, Mike Müller © Krafft Angerer

Mouataz Alshaltouh, Alexander Angeletta © Krafft Angerer

Florian Voigt, Mirjam Rast © Krafft Angerer

Mirjam Rast, Margot Gödrös © Krafft Angerer

Alexander Angeletta, Mirjam Rast, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Matthias Neukirch, Margot Gödrös, Matyas Gödrös, Karin Pfammatter, Florian Voigt, Mike Müller © Krafft Angerer

Florian Voigt, Matthias Neukirch, Rahel Hubacher, Matyas Gödrös © Krafft Angerer

Mouataz Alshaltouh, Matthias Neukirch, Karin Pfammatter, Florian Voigt, Mirjam Rast, Alexander Angeletta © Krafft Angerer

Alexander Angeletta, Michael Neuenschwander © Krafft Angerer

Florian Voigt, Mirjam Rast © Krafft Angerer

Mike Müller, Margot Gödrös, Matthias Neukirch, Mouataz Alshaltouh © Krafft Angerer

Rahel Hubacher, Michael Neuenschwander © Krafft Angerer

Matyas Gödrös, Mirjam Rast, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Alexander Angeletta, Florian Voigt © Krafft Angerer

MON 29.09.
THEATRE MONDAY
in Swiss German
Introduction 7.30 p.m.
PFAUEN
THUR 02.10.
in Swiss German
PFAUEN
WED 08.10.
in Swiss German
Introduction 7.30 p.m.
PFAUEN
FRI 10.10.
in Swiss German
DOPPELSPIEL
PFAUEN
TUE 21.10.
in Swiss German
PFAUEN
FRI 24.10.
in Swiss German
Introduction 7.30 p.m.
PFAUEN
SAT 01.11.
in Swiss German
PFAUEN
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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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‘A powerful subject for the opening, and a powerful ensemble’ 

Andreas Klaeui, SRF

‘An ensemble that plays dairy cows with such virtuosity, as if it had never done anything else.’

Anna Kardos, NZZ am Sonntag

‘Wonderful. Such verve, such vitality, magnificent! Just when you think you're about to descend into the depths of lowbrow theatre, there's a twist, a nuance, something wonderful.’

Egbert Tholl, Süddeutsche Zeitung

‘There has probably never been a more high-calibre portrayal of cows on the Peacock Stage. [...] You immediately fall in love with their beautifully singing cow Blösch.’ 

Isabel Hemmel, Berner Zeitung
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