Die Verwandlung

With these words, the metamorphosis of the cloth merchant Gregor from human to beetle begins: Gregor's awakening is an immersion in a nightmare from which there is no awakening. In three chapters, Kafka describes the unstoppable process of alienation from himself and from his social environment - a story of total communicative failure.


The ATZE Music Theater brings Kafka's most famous story to the stage as a staged reading with music. The music is closely intertwined with the story, illustrating and commenting on the events in constant "interaction" with the speaker.

The audience sits in the middle of the stage and - surrounded by language and music - physically immerses themselves in the scenic action. Kafka's grotesque world of images thus arises from the imaginative power of language and the immediate sound world of the music in the viewer's head.



(PLAY IN GERMAN)