Berlin Alexanderplatz at Deutsches Theater

A man is released from prison. Reluctantly he returns back to life, back to the city, a mass of vehicles, lights and people. He has been locked up for four years for unintentionally killing his girlfriend, and has now firmly resolved to lead a respectable life. Or are these merely empty words? The man needs to navigate a stony, almost deathly road until his eyes are opened and, “very changed and battered”, he finally stands on Alexanderplatz again.
The man, Franz Biberkopf, is one of many, his fate one of thousands. All around him are other people, voices, noises, news, the weather, the trains – he is surrounded by talking, singing, hissing, screeching and banging.