Die Koralle: Schauspiel in fünf Akten

In a stark, oval chamber that feels like the “hot heart of the earth,” a lone secretary presides over a surreal intake desk. He offers strangers—a desperate young woman in taffeta, a disillusioned blue‑clad man, and others—a chance to rewrite their lives within two years, handing them blank sheets that promise a “new existence.” The dialogue crackles with urgency, as each applicant wrestles with personal loss, the weight of a grinding system, and a yearning for salvation.

The play’s first act sketches a gallery of archetypes—a wealthy heir, a museum director, a captain, a singer—each caught in a bureaucratic maze that feels both absurd and familiar. Their desperate pleas for asylum and rehabilitation expose the social fractures of a world where work, faith, and identity collide. As the secretary’s signal board clicks, the stage teeters between hope and coercion, inviting listeners to ponder how far one will go to escape the confines of a society that seems to devour its own.