Prozess

In the organizer's words:

"What kind of people were they? What were they talking about? Which authority did they belong to? K. lived in a constitutional state, there was peace everywhere, all laws were upheld, who dared to attack him in his apartment?"

On the morning of his 30th birthday, Josef K. was declared under arrest by the agents of a court unknown to him. Without knowing what he is supposed to have done, he faces an inscrutable and sinister bureaucracy until he is picked up by two executioners in suits and executed on a riverbank.

In his novel The Trial, Kafka, who as an employee of an insurance company was himself part of the bureaucracy, focuses less on the smooth functioning of the bureaucratic machine and more on the endless entanglements, entanglements and confusion that result from the endless, labyrinthine bureaucracy. The intransparency of the procedures and official channels become nightmarish.

Following the great success of A Report for an Academy - which has been an integral part of the Gorki repertoire since February 2019 - Oliver Frljić is once again adapting a Kafka text for the stage. All men were never equal before the law. But aren't we today in the process of giving up the illusion that this equality exists, along with the hope of one day being able to create it? The Kafka year comes at just the right time for the 75th anniversary of the Basic Law.