Amerika

In the organizer's words:

Still almost a child, Karl Roßmann crosses the great sea in the belly of a deep-sea steamer. Sent away from Europe, the destination of this "deportation" is America. He enters a world that is completely new to him, a world that is just coming to an end or is only just emerging. This "missing person" encounters existences that, flooded in from all countries, seek as compulsively as mercilessly to find their space, a function, even fiction, their "exercise". Karl moves and is moved, tries to "fit in", hesitates and always does his best to finally find his "happiness" as a nameless person. Sebastian Baumgarten reassembles Kafka's novel fragment in word, sound and image fragments at the Gorki. As an experiment on the mechanics of powerlessness, helplessness, injustice, irony and hope, on the trail of a modern type of man whose greatest difficulty seems to be saying "no" in the midst of compact logics of exploitation. SEE TRAILER Premiere on 14/January 2023 Stage version with excerpts from "Amerika" by Jean Baudrillard and other texts by Franz Kafka The excerpt from "Amérique" (America) by Jean Baudrillard is used with the consent of Editions Grasset & Fasquelle (Paris, France) Photo: Esra RotthoffStage photos: Ute Langkafel MAIFOTO