Anna Rottensteiner meets Miriam Unterthiner. Two authors in dialogue about their writing

In their most recent works, Miriam Unterthiner and Anna Rottensteiner explore history: they tell stories of suppressed guilt and collective silence, of women’s lives shaped by external control. In Blutbrot, a village remains silent about its role in helping Nazi criminals to escape, while the landscape itself begins to speak.

In Mutterbande, the voices of women echo across generations, telling of lives marked by uprooting and the longing for belonging. Both works intertwine memory and space, body and history, making visible what continues to resonate beneath the surface. They speak of an in-between — between places, times, identities — and of how literature can give form to this state of suspension.