Baracke

BY Rainald Goetz DIRECTED BY Claudia Bossard

  • DT Bühne
  • world premiere

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synopsis

  • family
  • german history
  • spiral of violence

Two people from a young circle of friends in Krölpa/Thuringia, all of them born around 1977, become a couple. Bea and Ramin are in love, but love fades away. Later, Bea gets together with a man who used to belong to their group of friends: Uwe is part of a movement that opposes the generation of their parents and becomes radicalised. Bea has a child with Uwe; together, they become family. Their family connections reach all the way to West Germany, where the three of them celebrate their wedding with the extended Munich family. Later, the family leaves the impoverished circumstances of Krölpa and moves to Weißer Hirsch, an exclusive residential area in Dresden. But the past becomes the present. The family founders. The father sees only one thing left to do: He draws the final consequence.

Baracke is a family play: a play about family, about violence and about Germany. It follows the course of a love across more than thirty years, across a generation. The family’s truth entails the violence that is present from the outset, the secret and the horror. And above all of this hovers the silence of the fathers, the omission of truth, the torpor of the mothers – and their continuance in the bodies of the children, from generation to generation.

Rainald Goetz is a shrewd chronicler and his masterful machinery of thought and connection guides us through a museum of the 21st century. Analogies with the right-wing terror of the National Socialist Underground emerge, the recent past and present concentrate into a radical excess of now. With his delicate feeling for language and a subtle gift for observation, Goetz gives language to social consciousness and outlines images of an ambivalent present in stream-like thought-cascades. Thus, Baracke becomes a revolt of speech against silence.

duration

2 Stunden 25 Minuten, keine Pause

premiere

22.09.2023

notes

 Diese Inszenierung enthält Schilderungen und Darstellungen von Gewalt in Gesellschaft und Familie.

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