Der Bau - Franz Kafka

In the organizer's words:

A theatrical exploration of Kafka's ambivalent relationship with music

"The music I listen to naturally draws a wall around me and my only permanent musical influence is that I am so imprisoned, so different from being free," wrote Kafka in a letter to his last girlfriend shortly before his death, while he was writing The Burrow. A story that deals existentially and full of dark humor with how we construct and build our lives. Going far beyond the concept of identity or ego constructs or socialization, in this parable Kafka asks not what holds the world together at its core, but what holds our construction together at its core and why it sometimes collapses like a poorly built house of cards. The narrative is permeated by acoustic metaphors and auditory disturbances that draw the first-person narrator deeper and deeper into the fragile composition of the building. Holes in speech that allow him to recognize the other self. The question that remains at the end: What is your building?

Director: Christian Freund / Play: Selina Azcan, Christian Freund / Music: Paul Brauner, Riccardo Boccassini