Die Verwandlung
October 2025
Die Verwandlung
Theatre
Schauspielhaus Graz - Schauraum
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Die Verwandlung
Tickets
Tue 07.10.2025
20:00–21:00
Cast
- Regie: Ed. Hauswirth
- mit: Matthias Ohner
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Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a giant vermin in his bed in his parents’ home. He cannot speak, but he can understand everything that is said around him. Kafka’s story depicts the last three months in the life of the traveling salesman Gregor Samsa and the associated conflicts with his family. …
One’s own body is in the world, like the heart in the organism: “It is the body that keeps all visible spectacle incessantly alive”, says Merleau-Ponty in Phenomenology of Perception. This is where suburban theater comes in:
What does it mean for your self-worth if you suddenly find yourself in the body of a bug that is of no use to you? Neither socially nor economically? A thought experiment that also leads us to topics such as economics and exclusion.
In a kind of lecture performance by a traveling salesman, Matthias Ohner becomes an animal for the audience. A perceptual-practical thriller …
