Georg Herold: X. Baracke

‘I was always more one of those who take an inventory of the real. Not of the elevated kind, just the naked facts. That’s also my attitude to the issue of ‘coming to terms with the past’. The past is not to come to terms with, it simply remains the present. This is at play in a piece like X. Baracke: we aren’t living somewhere else today, we’re living in precisely the same place – and in this past moment as well.’

G. Herold, ‘Everyone Wears Underpants: Georg Herold in conversation with Jörg Heiser’, in Georg Herold: X. Baracke 1986, 2005, p. 48