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I definitely had to think about the fact that when i was younger I didn’t enjoy it at all. Practicing was somehow… I don’t know. I was too lazy. At least for practicing. I like doing things, but I don’t like the practicing-before. I like it when it just works right away. The only place where it was different was with sports, in training, in fencing. But otherwise… piano… there I was always a bit too lazy. And even now I’ve been avoiding it a lot. It’s already almost 6pm. I still wanted to go to an opening later… the practice of practicing I still haven’t done. I have to… I have to somehow… I have to maybe understand it differently.

This is already a new recording. When I was recording, or when I thought about doing these Üben-Üben-Üben texts always while walking, so working with a recording, I somehow thought of the recordings of Brinkmann, I don’t have the first name right now in my head. And he just walked through Cologne and really… I think it was also just totally new then. And he just went through Cologne and spoke his frustration into his… into his literary deformation… into his recording device. It’s pretty entertaining to listen to. There’s something like that in, I don’t know, the ARD, the audio mediathek, there’s a kind of compilation. how funny. I think the attempt was to somehow bring real everydayness into literature and to create authenticity. For me it’s not at all about the audio files, but rather about then transcribing it or seeing what comes out of it. I don’t even know how honest I’ll be with the recording. And also how it will work with English and German. But yes, it’s good. You just practice a bit for the Practice-Practice-Practice Festival. By the way I’m drinking San Miguel at Westendplatz. Actually I wanted to walk around, but I’m already a bit too lazy. I’ll do that when I’m in Basel, with the real walking. It’s actually a nice square here. Right now there are nine people, two from Pios, they’re on the benches, two are also playing chess.

I think I always… my mother always said, whoever practices can’t do anything and whoever practices secretly stabs their colleagues in the back. She was also an actress in such a Low German theatre in Hamburg. I think of course that’s not quite right with the “who practices can’t do anything,” but you just want to be able to do it and not have to practice for it. But that probably will never happen. When it comes to such things, like stage, or also reading out loud. I’m simply too sluggish to go through the whole text, to read it once. Then I’d rather just do it when you have to, then I think it will already be good. Because then at some point you just sit on the stage and read it. And then it’s also good, but it would probably be better if you had practiced it a few times before.

Practice, practice, practice. Somehow I also see a raised finger. Like the old Latin teacher. Practice, practice, practice. Oh man, it will be so annoying to listen to all this and then write it down. But yes, I wonder if the whole week, when I walk around in Basel and think about the performance of the last evening and then make a text out of that, then the text is actually already finished. Then somehow practicing and performing fall into each other. I quite like that idea. And now the task was also to think about practicing.

I notice, when someone walks right past me it’s already hard for me to keep speaking into the device. I picked it up earlier from Saturn. That was mega dumb. I thought I’d do it quickly and wouldn’t have to walk so long through Saturn. I can just do Pick & Collect. Now I’ve been three days in different Saturns because they had inventory and I didn’t know which one it was in. I’ve got here the Philips Voice Tracer, that’s what it’s called. Not the best, but it looks funny. A black plastic shell. I don’t even know where I store this. I can’t put a memory card in. I think I need an adapter for my computer. I also don’t know how much I should think about my practicing or practicing in general. In general I would say it has… a lot to do with repetition. The noun would be “Übung.” But then I have to think again very much of school. I definitely notice already what maybe I don’t like in the text, is that you have such a very present I with this recording. I usually try to avoid that, but now it’s unavoidable. I also hope there’s some AI that will transcribe this for me. Things I’m currently practicing are definitely: I’m practicing order and discipline, and I’m practicing to write more and drink less. And not to let myself get stressed. Let them I’m also practicing. And now just a little pause.

Üben Üben Üben - Darbietungsformen für die Gegenwart
vom 08. - 14. September 2025 im Multi Soft Konstanz in Basel