Kleist
Prize 2025 for New Drama to Miriam Unterthiner
22. January 2025
This
year, the Kleist Prize for New Drama has been awarded to Miriam Unterthiner (Institute for the Art of Language) for her play
‘Blutbrot’ (Bloodbread), as announced by the Kleist Forum Frankfurt (Oder) in a press release.
The Angewandte
congratulates her!
The award comes with prize money of €10,000 and a world
premiere, which this year will be hosted by Theater Aachen. The premiere is planned for 26 September 2025, with Jakob Weiss
directing.
Miriam Unterthiner, born in Italy in 1994, lives in Vienna. Former handball player, now playwright and
author. She studied Philosophy, German Studies and Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. ‘Blutbrot’ is her
final thesis for her studies in language arts. She has received scholarships from the Austrian Federal Government, the Wiener
Wortstaetten and the Summer School Südtirol and was invited to the Treffen junger Autor*innen at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig.
Her play ‘Vaerzunge’ has been nominated for the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2023 Author's Prize. She is currently a Hans Gratzer
Fellow at the Schauspielhaus Vienna with her play ‘Mundtot’, and it has also been nominated for the Retzhofer Drama Prize
for Young Audiences 2025.
