Und alle so still / ÖEA
6/15/2025
at 3:00 PM
/ Salzburg
"I wondered what would happen if all women refused, if they stopped doing anything, absolutely nothing, not going to work, not cooking, not cleaning, not driving a bus, not ironing a shirt, not sitting at the supermarket checkout, not teaching a class, they would force a comprehensive standstill."
When Mareike Fallwickl wrote these sentences for her novel "Die Wut, die bleibt" in 2021, she already knew that there was another story, a new book within it: On a Sunday in June, the world falls out of step. Women lie on the street. Motionless, in silent protest. Here, the paths of Elin, Nuri, and Ruth intersect. Elin, in her early twenties, a successful influencer, who has experienced something she's unsure whether it was violence. Nuri, nineteen years old, who dropped out of school and is trying to get by as a bike courier, bedpusher, and food delivery person. Ruth, in her mid-fifties, who works as a nurse in a hospital and whose sense of duty seems inexhaustible. It is the beginning of a revolt, where women no longer do what they have always done. Suddenly, everything that our system is built on is being questioned.
"Die Wut, die bleibt" was Fallwickl's first novel to be dramatized and premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2023 at the Salzburger Landestheater. And now comes the sequel "Und alle so still" for its Austrian premiere.
"'Die Wut, die bleibt' portrays reality, while 'Und alle so still' shows how the world could change. That's why one novel is dedicated to my daughter, so she knows the situation women are in, and the other to my son, so he understands that men need to rethink themselves, and that we will only progress if we move in the same direction - together.", said Mareike Fallwickl.
Mareike Fallwickl, born in 1983 in Hallein near Salzburg, lives with her family in the Salzburg region. "Dunkelgrün fast schwarz" was published in 2018. It was followed by "Das Licht ist hier viel heller" in 2019. Mareike Fallwickl advocates for literary mediation, with a focus on female narrative voices.
Director Susanne Schmelcher, awarded with the NESTROY theater prize, gained her first theater experience at the National Theater Mannheim and realized projects in the independent scene. She developed her first own productions at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. She directed at theaters including Theater Heidelberg, Theater Konstanz, and Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck.