Die Koralle: Schauspiel in fünf Akten

A five-act stage drama stages an administrative office where an official hears a succession of petitioners — desperate women, unemployed men, bereaved family members — while a powerful industrial figure seeks answers about his missing heir. Through episodic encounters the play examines social inequality, the bureaucratic management of poverty, and the commodification of human dignity, contrasting mechanical compassion and ritualized charity with private grief and public power, using stark theatrical settings and sharply drawn types to expose moral tensions and the human costs of modern social arrangements.