Duration 1 Hours 40 min., no interval
World Premiere 17.10.25, Thalia Gaußstraße
Information
Reproduction of racist language; discussion of suicide, drug and alcohol consumption, genocide, depression, self-harm, experiences of displacement; strobe lighting, occasionally loud music.
Kafka's The Metamorphosis is arguably the most famous story about alienation, conformity, and the desire to be seen. It raises the question: What happens to those who no longer fit into the system?
Burhan Qurbani, known for his cinematic adaptations of Berlin Alexanderplatz and Kein Tier. So Wild, transports Kafka's story into a present in which belonging must be renegotiated. Four people with different perspectives meet in a mysterious way – as if fate had brought them together. Their experiences mirror each other: the fear of exclusion, the struggle for identity in a so-called pluralistic society, the question of conformity and self-assertion.
But what if it is not Gregor Samsa who has changed, but the world? Qurbani's play develops Kafka's motif of transformation into a polyphonic echo of our present – of people who struggle for visibility, who have to assert themselves in a world that has always condemned them to failure.
Note:
The Zeise Kino will be showing kein Tier. So Wild on October 27. This will be followed by a Q&A with actor Camill Jammal.
Burhan Qurbani, known for his cinematic adaptations of Berlin Alexanderplatz and Kein Tier. So Wild, transports Kafka's story into a present in which belonging must be renegotiated. Four people with different perspectives meet in a mysterious way – as if fate had brought them together. Their experiences mirror each other: the fear of exclusion, the struggle for identity in a so-called pluralistic society, the question of conformity and self-assertion.
But what if it is not Gregor Samsa who has changed, but the world? Qurbani's play develops Kafka's motif of transformation into a polyphonic echo of our present – of people who struggle for visibility, who have to assert themselves in a world that has always condemned them to failure.
Note:
The Zeise Kino will be showing kein Tier. So Wild on October 27. This will be followed by a Q&A with actor Camill Jammal.
- With
- Regie
- Bühne
- Kostüme
- Musik
- Dramaturgie
Dates
Th 20.11.25
- 20.00-21.40, Thalia GaußstraßeQ&A afterwards
Verwandlung
by Burhan Qurbani based freely on the story by Franz Kafkadirected by Burhan QurbaniSold out
We 26.11.25
- 20.00-21.40, Thalia Gaußstraße
Verwandlung
by Burhan Qurbani based freely on the story by Franz Kafkadirected by Burhan QurbaniSold out
Tu 2.12.25
- 20.00-21.40, Thalia Gaußstraße
Verwandlung
by Burhan Qurbani based freely on the story by Franz Kafkadirected by Burhan QurbaniSold out
We 10.12.25
- 20.00-21.40, Thalia Gaußstraßeafterwards Q&A
Verwandlung
by Burhan Qurbani based freely on the story by Franz Kafkadirected by Burhan QurbaniSold out
Further dates are being planned.