BÄRNER GRINGE

A true story from the Emmental based on Simon Gfeller

Fabienne Hadorn is performing in the role of Rötele at the Ballenberg this summer.
Two true life stories of simple, righteous people packed into a production with plenty of drama and emotion. The play spans a wide arc over several decades, a panorama of everyday life, touching and captivating.

The Bärner Gring is proverbial: tough, stubborn, persistent. Such characters often appear in Simon Gfeller's work, but are particularly beautifully portrayed in the two stories that accompany the new Bärner Gringe": "Das Rötelein" and "Der Bärner-Gring". Simon Gfeller published them in 1914 in the volume "Geschichten aus dem Emmental".

The story "Das Rötelein", or "d' Rötele" in Bernese German, traces the life of a maid who makes her way through a hard life thanks to her quiet strength and perseverance.
Rötele marries her Hans at an early age. Their honeymoon "doesn't take them halfway around Switzerland or even to Italy", but to the neighboring village, where they buy a small, run-down estate where they live from then on. where they would live from then on. They have good years and very bad ones, and a drought almost wipes out the small farm. Hans is no help in times of need, on the contrary. And those from the village village have always known that things won't turn out well for Rötele. But someone like her won't give up.

Bärner Gringe was written by Martin Bieri and Francesco Micieli for the
for the Landschaftstheater Ballenberg.

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July 3 to August 17, 2024

Every Wednesday until Saturday

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