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Amerika / Der Verschollene

Based on the unfinished novel by Franz Kafka in an adaptation by Charlotte Sprenger and Olivia Ebert

 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 11.10.2024
 2 hours 40 minutes (incl. break)
 With English surtitles
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€
 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 11.10.2024
 2 hours 40 minutes (incl. break)
 With English surtitles
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

Missing in the modern world — “Der Verschollene” describes class relations in a capitalist society like no other text by Kafka.

The 16-year-old Karl Roßmann, who is cast out by his family and sent to America, constantly has to assert himself and always in new, different social structures. The technocratic regime of his businessman uncle in a skyscraper high above New York, the realities of two casual labourers in the street, the overworked bellboys in a hotel, a cramped shared apartment in an artistic milieu – all these play a parlour game of power and powerlessness, conformity and rebellion. The best cards are dealt to the proprietary classes who prey on those weaker than them. But it is precisely these outcasts and lost people who refuse to forsake their futures and continue to survive inventively as masters of the art of living.

Charlotte Sprenger creates subtle, musical, playful evenings with an ensemble, including at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. Now, after bringing the Fassbinder film “Die dritte Generation” (The Third Generation) to the stage as the Otto Falckenberg School’s 2022 graduation production, she is presenting her first major work at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

“Today’s feeling of powerlessness arises from the fact that we are aware of the state of the world and yet we still follow rules that we did not make and often do not understand, let alone approve of. The visionary Kafka revealed this to us 100 years ago in his unfinished novel.”

– Charlotte Sprenger, director

  • Assistant director Marion Hélène Weber, Constanze Nogueira Negwer
  • Stage design assistance Julia Bahn
  • Assistant Costume Designer Jacqueline Elaine Koch
  • Stage Manager Hanno Nehring
  • Soufflage Daphne Chatzopoulos
  • Directing Intern Clara Drechsler
  • Costume design intern Lena Olivier
  • Theater pedagogy Filo Krause
  • Artistic Production Manager Daniela Schroll
  • Technical production management Jonas Pim Simon
  • Stage Master Josef Hofmann
  • Stage Machinery Michael Preusser, Stefan Wickop
  • Interlocking William Grüger
  • Lighting Felix Adams, Tobias Fisch, Daniel Prütz
  • Make-Up Sylvia Janka, Raimund Richar-Vetter, Steffen Roßmanith
  • Costumes Paulina Engelhardtova, Nico Vanni, Jessica Watermann, Teresa Winkelmann
  • Props Daniel Bittner
  • Carpentry Michael Buhl, Josef Friesl, Stefan Klodt-Bussmann, Clemens Künneth, Sebastian Nebe, Josef Piechatzek
  • Metalworkers Andreas Bacher, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Friedrich Würzhuber
  • Decorations Anja Gebauer, Tim Hagemeyer, Tobias Herzog, Maria Hörger
  • Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach, Frederic Sontag, Ingrid Weindl
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Digitale Einführung
Digitale Einführung
The actor disguised as a liberty dam stands in the typical pose: with a torch in his upstretched right hand and a large book in his left arm pressed against his upper body.

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Press reviews

“But the magic of the evening comes from Katharina Marie Schubert.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung • 14.10.24

“True to the fragmentary original, Charlotte Sprenger also develops a surrealistic kaleidoscope.”

nachtkritik • 12.10.24

”[…] a very appealing mixture of comedy and melancholy – above all thanks to outstanding actors.”

Münchner Merkur • 16.10.24
Dates & Tickets
Mon 9.12. 7:30 – 10:10 pm

Introduction from 7 pm

Abo: Montag grün
Wed 11.12. 7:30 – 10:10 pm

Introduction from 7 pm

Abo: Mittwoch orange
Wed 18.12. 7:30 – 10:10 pm
Fri 10.1.25 8 – 10:40 pm
Abo: Freitag blau
Tue 14.1.25 8 – 10:40 pm
Abo: Dienstag grün
Sun 2.2.25 7 – 9:40 pm
Abo: Sonntag weiß
Thu 6.2.25
Abo: Donnerstag blau
Sat 15.2.25
Abo: Samstag blau
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Amerika / Der Verschollene
  • Schauspielhaus
  • Premiere: 11.10.2024
  • 2 hours 40 minutes (incl. break)
  • With English surtitles
  • Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€