Helmut Schilling

Helmut Schilling's estate contains a wealth of different genres, including theater texts, novels, radio plays, radio lectures, musical readings, documentary film commentaries and poems. Of particular interest are Schilling's stage plays, which he wrote and continuously revised during the Second World War and the Cold War: The Peace Play reflects the repeated occurrence of devastating wars in Europe on numerous German and Swiss stages between 1942 and 1959, while Experiment René denounces the use of nuclear weapons at the Atelier Theater Bern in 1966. The collection is particularly significant for the SAPA because Schilling established Bernese German as a stage language as early as the 1950s.

An overview of the Helmut Schilling holdings at SAPA can be found on the Swiss Performing Arts Platform.