Entering the “penal colony” turns out to be quite complex. If you want to watch the Munich premiere of Philip Glass’ “In The Penal Colony” in the atrium of the Palace of Justice, you first have to go through a passenger check like at the airport. Security check, the entire program, of course fits Kafka like a glove, whose disturbing short story “In the Penal Colony” is the subject here: the neo-baroque Paragraph Castle with its labyrinthine staircases and corridors, its past as a place of arbitrary National Socialist bloody sentences. The People’s Court shouter Roland Freisler, the “execution judge”, raged here.
Kafka Opera in the Munich Palace of Justice – Munich
