In the organizer's words:

Franz Kafka's narrative worlds do not follow the laws of rationality. The work of the writer of the century, who was born in Prague in 1883, is characterized by peculiar figures and creatures that bear witness to the fact that human existence offers little stability and that family, love and even everyday life can have something overwhelming about them. The procurator in "The Metamorphosis", the encounter between father and son in "The Verdict" or the "unearthly horses" that never take Kafka's country doctor to his destination are ciphers of a world in which certainties become fragile.

Kafka's prose electrifies with its riddles, of which the author himself said that "the reflections to which they give rise are endless". One hundred years after his death, Franz Kafka is experiencing a renaissance in social media: young people all over the world share Kafka's enigmatic humor and find themselves in his scenes of powerlessness - in his difficult relationship with his father, in his reflections on the uniqueness he sensed early on as a human being and artist, in his feelings of guilt at not being able to cope with the demands of a bourgeois existence. Kafka describes the loneliness of the individual and finds words for the defiance of those who refuse. Alongside this, the moments of success shine: euphoric writing that has left us with the flawless prose of a man who - despite everything - is free and has not lost his laughter.

Andreas Kriegenburg is one of the most renowned directors in the German-speaking world and has been working continuously at the D'haus for years. In his production, he allows Kafka to meet the characters from his own cosmos and weaves these encounters into a surreal dream play.