Baracke

#family #german history #spiral of violence

A couple emerges from a clique of teenagers from Krölpa, Thuringia, born around 1977. Bea and Ramin experience love that fades away again. Later, Bea connects with another man from the former youth clique: Uwe is part of that movement that goes into opposition to the parents' generation and becomes radicalized. Bea has a child with Uwe, and a family is born with him. The threads of kinship reach as far as West Germany, where the three celebrate their wedding in the circle of the Munich extended family. Later, the family leaves the poor conditions in Krölpa and moves to Dresden's villa district Weißer Hirsch. But the past becomes the present. The family fails. For the father, the only thing left to do is to draw the last consequence.

Baracke is a family play: about family, violence and about Germany. It tells the story of love over thirty years, over a generation. Part of the truth of the family is the violence, the mystery, the horror that is present from the beginning. Over all this hovers the silence of the fathers, the omission of the truth, the numbness of the mothers - and the continuation of life in the bodies of the children, from generation to generation.

As an astute chronicler, Rainald Goetz's virtuoso machinery of thought and linking leads us into a museum of the 21st century. Analogies are drawn to the right-wing terrorist NSU, the recent past and present are condensed into a radical Jetztexzess. With a sensitive feeling for language, knowledge of human nature, and a subtle gift for observation, Goetz makes the social consciousness speak and draws images of an ambivalent present in stream-like cascades of thought. Thus Baracke becomes a revolt of speech against silence.