Theater on the Edge: Kafka on the Edge
Two Kafkaesque performances: First, Kathleen Gaube plays herself to the bone in The Trial, then the Dresden-based company Freaks und Fremde dedicates itself to the story A Hunger Artist with puppetry and music.
**The Trial**
Someone must have slandered Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
Thus begins the story of Josef K., who, on his 30th birthday, is to be put on trial by a mysterious authority. And the more the bank clerk tries to defend his innocence, the deeper he sinks into the thicket of impenetrable laws and human confusion. Josef K. must ultimately recognize that the "meaning of this great organization, this corrupt gang," the meaning of this mysterious trial, is "meaninglessness." *The Trial* is a great work of world literature. Its significance for the 20th century cannot be overstated: for the trial that Josef K. must endure is also a trial that he—innocently guilty—inflicts upon himself...
**A Hunger Artist**
It's all a matter of appetite. One person craves power and money, another love or luxury, a third idleness or stoic composure. Franz Kafka's hunger artist wants none of that, but no one should claim to crave nothing at all.
No, he is ambitious, practically addicted to fame; he wants people to watch him starve in his cage. A parable about the lonely truth of being an artist.
The tragedy of this artist is not having to go hungry due to bitter deprivation, because he has long since resigned himself to the fact that the world is not to his liking.
He goes to great lengths to captivate the audience. He has to push himself to the limit, to the very edge of life. He wants to offer his spectacular experience to the public, to nourish, nurture, and astonish them with his spectacle. He is an artist, and only in death will his art be perfected.
Through the interplay of language, puppetry, acting and music, the company transforms Kafka's story "Freaks and Strangers" into a small theatrical gem.
**The Trial**
Someone must have slandered Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.
Thus begins the story of Josef K., who, on his 30th birthday, is to be put on trial by a mysterious authority. And the more the bank clerk tries to defend his innocence, the deeper he sinks into the thicket of impenetrable laws and human confusion. Josef K. must ultimately recognize that the "meaning of this great organization, this corrupt gang," the meaning of this mysterious trial, is "meaninglessness." *The Trial* is a great work of world literature. Its significance for the 20th century cannot be overstated: for the trial that Josef K. must endure is also a trial that he—innocently guilty—inflicts upon himself...
**A Hunger Artist**
It's all a matter of appetite. One person craves power and money, another love or luxury, a third idleness or stoic composure. Franz Kafka's hunger artist wants none of that, but no one should claim to crave nothing at all.
No, he is ambitious, practically addicted to fame; he wants people to watch him starve in his cage. A parable about the lonely truth of being an artist.
The tragedy of this artist is not having to go hungry due to bitter deprivation, because he has long since resigned himself to the fact that the world is not to his liking.
He goes to great lengths to captivate the audience. He has to push himself to the limit, to the very edge of life. He wants to offer his spectacular experience to the public, to nourish, nurture, and astonish them with his spectacle. He is an artist, and only in death will his art be perfected.
Through the interplay of language, puppetry, acting and music, the company transforms Kafka's story "Freaks and Strangers" into a small theatrical gem.
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