diff --git a/src/main/java/uulm/teamname/marvelous/gamelibrary/json/JSON.java b/src/main/java/uulm/teamname/marvelous/gamelibrary/json/JSON.java
index eb67bd1..5dfc5fe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/uulm/teamname/marvelous/gamelibrary/json/JSON.java
+++ b/src/main/java/uulm/teamname/marvelous/gamelibrary/json/JSON.java
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package uulm.teamname.marvelous.gamelibrary.json;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import jdk.jshell.spi.ExecutionControl;
+import uulm.teamname.marvelous.gamelibrary.events.Event;
 import uulm.teamname.marvelous.gamelibrary.json.ingame.MessageStructure;
 
 /** Contains JSON encoding and decoding.
@@ -9,9 +12,17 @@ public class JSON {
     /** Deserializes an incoming network message into a {@link MessageStructure}.
      * @param input The JSON to deserialize.
      * @return The parsed message. */
-    public static MessageStructure[] parse(String input) throws ExecutionControl.NotImplementedException {
-        //TODO: implement JSON.parse
-        throw new ExecutionControl.NotImplementedException("JSON.parse is not implemented");
+    public static MessageStructure parse(String input) {
+        MessageStructure result = null;
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        try {
+            result = mapper.readValue(input, MessageStructure.class);
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return result;
+
+        //TODO: write custom deserializer for Entities because of PID and ID separately (stupid idea indeed)
     }
 
     /** Serializes a {@link MessageStructure} into a JSON string.