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Der Process / The Trial

"Someonemust have slandered Josef K., because one morning without him doing something wrong, he was arrested."

True, the production of director Simon Eifeler begins with this familiar movement. In the fast-paced, crazy and in this form unprecedented adaptation, however, the process acts as a fruitful encounter - in content as well as in form. A confrontation with the unknown in a time of growing fears towards the strange and alien. Director Simon Eifeler staged the process in the summer of 2016 in Ghana's Accra with three local actors. Fascinated and inspired by the power of the unknown as a source of creative power and diversity, he realized the process with three German actors once again in Düsseldorf after his journey, in order to collide these two versions of Kafka's novel in an intercontinental staging. 

Production

The Ghanaian and German actors played with, against and for each other. A brilliant mash-up of two cultures that could hardly be more different. Last but not least, it was an exchange between Ghana and Germany; between Accra, the capital of the NRW partner country and the state capital Düsseldorf. 

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Team

WITH Felix Banholzer // Yibor Kojo Yibor // Marius Bechen // Dr. So // Lars Evers // Jeneral Nta Tia // DIRECTOR Simon Eifeler // ASSISTANT Melih Celik // COSTUME Uta Materne // PROJECT LEAD Dennis Palmen