DER KREDIT
by Jordi Galceran, German version by Stefanie Gerhold. Director: Martin Woelffer, set design: Julia Hattstein. With Markus Majowski and Ilja Richter.
Premiere on 8 March 2015 (previews: 4 to 7 March 2015), running until 26 April 2015, Komödie am Kurfürstendamm.
An office in a bank: the branch manager, who has made his life rather more comfortable than his clinically tidy office, receives the customer Anton Herberg, who wants to take out a laughable loan of a laughable 3,000 euros. But in truth the manager has already decided: after reviewing the paperwork, the application is rejected. The risk is too high. Herberg has no collateral. Yet the man refuses to be brushed off and asks the manager to trust him. The manager invokes his regulations and remains unmoved. Then Anton changes tack: he threatens the banker that he will seduce his wife. But even this fails to sway the manager. Still, the threat gives him pause, and he calls his wife to warn her about Anton. It backfires. Anton manages to throw the banker's domestic idyll — wife, house, children and secure job — completely off balance. Step by step the manager falls into the applicant's clutches, and within no time at all Herberg has turned his life upside down. With refreshing absurdity and biting satire, author Jordi Galceran shows in "Der Kredit" how the balance of power can shift.