A motley crew sets out into the rainforests of Central America to retrace the mysterious disappearance of two young female tourists, to process the experience artistically, and to turn it into a play.
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Die Holländerinnen
Among them is a writer who will later recount her experiences. And she doesn’t just report on them—she weaves many more stories into her account, stories that increasingly make it clear that there is no such thing as an unambiguous truth in this world.
With *Die Holländerinnen*, Dorothee Elmiger has not only written a novel that won the German Book Prize in 2025, but also a text about storytelling itself:
From the overarching plot of a madcap theater project in the rainforest, numerous stories fan out about the fringes of civilization and consciousness, about the blurred boundary between truth and delusion, nature and culture. As dense and interwoven, as mesmerizing as the tropical vegetation itself.
Jan Friedrich has received multiple awards for his numerous novel adaptations; with his production of Kim de l’Horizon’s *Blutbuch*, he was invited to the 2023 Berlin Theater Meeting.
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October 2026
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