DIE VERWANDLUNG

In the organizer's words:

"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin " - this is how one of the most famous and enigmatic stories in literary history begins.

And what initially appears to be a bad dream soon turns out to be a merciless reality. From now on, Gregor has to live as an insect. The indispensable pillar of the indebted family has become a creature of monstrous uselessness, a foreign body, a parasite. But Gregor takes a liking to his otherness, while his family increasingly turns away from him and banishes him to the next room. The family used to have a son, a brother. Now a disgusting insect lives next door, making a normal life impossible. If only you could just get rid of "IT". Because the qualities that previously characterized Gregor - mobility, adaptation and eagerness to work - have suddenly been lost.

A metamorphosis that triggers fear and horror in the petty bourgeois family cosmos.

In November 1912, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) wrote to his future fiancée Felice Bauer that he was going to write down "a little story" that "occurred to me in the misery of bed and is troubling me inwardly. The story is a bit horrible, it would really scare you." It eventually became a novella that is still one of the most unsettling dreams in world literature.

Production | Monika Hess-Zanger
Stage & costumes | Elke König

With | Florian Bender

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