Under Ice
by Falk Richter, translated by David Tushingham
19 August - 12 September 2009
"Everyone's afraid of losing his bloody job, even though no-one likes their job"
Paul Niemand is frozen in time. Too old to start again and too young to retire. An employee in a leading consulting firm, Niemand’s inability to operate ‘outside the box’ is confirmed by his unconvincing rendition of highlights from The Lion King at the firm’s Christmas party. Now unemployed, Paul Niemand simply ceases to exist.
Under Ice rips into the slick and systematic world of global corporate absurdities; where spin-doctors spin out of control and human emotion, reason and life are redundant.
