Katja Brunner

**Nominated for the Mülheim Drama Prize 2023**
Seven doctors stand around him, the petrified patient Fels, and try to make out his breathing, to feel his pulse. Together with the Mothers, the Schnuralist, Marius I and II, the Kevins, a male choir and a rattling frame, they form the image of society: a wounded body that is constantly wrestling with how much of this wound it will reveal.
It is about all of us in the structure in which we live: our political, social and health structures, our historical imprint, our future in this unsettled world. What are the fears and worries of different people? What are their wounds? To whom do they show them, with whom do they negotiate their pain? Who sets the rules and norms, and who breaks them?
Katja Brunner dissects the state with all its absurdities through impressive images, a precise choice of language and a finely tuned dash of comedy, and opens up human abysses. A text that sometimes gets the laughter stuck in your throat.