Sancta: Profane theater in Germany

[Alejo]

Hi everyone,

I came across this tonight as I was doing my nightly news round, apparently there's a new theater show that is making people sick, because it's actually rather profane and disgusting. Here's the link to the RT article, which includes some images which I will not post here as they are beyond distasteful, if you don't want to look at them, well.. imagine the Paris Olympic opening ceremony and make it 100 times worse. That's what passes for theater these days.

‘18 dizzy people": Opera with sexual scenes stuns audiences in Germany

Explicit sexual acts, lesbian love scenes*, depictions of sexual abuse and ridicule of Christian rituals top the list of triggers that its audience has to deal with.

In Germany, a strong wave of criticism was unleashed against the age-rated opera ‘Sancta’, full of bold warnings, which premiered on Saturday at the Stuttgart Opera House, reports Bild.

The opera is based on the work of composer Paul Hindemith, which was included in the repertoire of the cultural body a century after its creator faced strong indignation over the text of the fruit of his imagination, branded ‘blasphemous’.

However, after the first two performances, the visitor service had to attend to a total of 18 people, some of whom were nauseous, while in three cases a doctor had to be called, according to Sebastian Ebling, the play's official spokesman.

Explicit sexual acts, lesbian love scenes*, depictions of sexual abuse and the ridiculing of Christian rituals top the list of triggers its audiences have to deal with. However, the cultural organisation recommends the show to audiences who are ‘daringly looking for new theatrical experiences’, since, according to Ebling, apart from the use of some theatrical means, the performance art ‘is not fake but real’.

Despite complaints from the public, Ebling assured that the five planned evenings would not be cancelled, and said he was confident that most of the audience were aware ‘of what they were getting into’. Before Stuttgart, the production was staged in Schwerin, ‘sold out’, where no medical emergencies were reported.

‘Degeneracy’ and “scum”.

Stuttgart's dean, Christian Hermes, launched harsh criticism of the opera and claimed that the work depicts ‘naive, not to say cheesy, sexual-spiritual dreams of redemption’. ‘Those involved and visitors are brutally pushed to and beyond the limits of what is aesthetically and psychologically tolerable, religious feelings are obscenely violated [...] and people's mental health is deliberately played with,’ Hermes commented, joining some internet users who dismissed the opera as “degeneracy” and “scum”.

 

[Palinurus]

I heard this story already this morning in the Radio news bulletin of the BBC so it really must have been extremely awful to attend to this degenerate show.

 

[Breo]

I wanted to add the 'euphoric' description of the Stuttgart Opera on this "opera", but I decided not to. Also to avoid the pictures. It feels like feeding most disgusting energies. It seems like the Olympic obscenities opened the door to the final stages of hell inducing perversion and call it "art". The attempt to infect the population with demonic energies also will backfire. More people will say "enough is enough"!

 

[naorma]

Also to avoid the pictures. It feels like feeding most disgusting energies. I

I agree!

 

[Learner]

I read an article about this piece of "art" on the newspage of my email provider a couple days ago. According to them, the news around that opera performance and what visitors endured in consequence led to subsequent performances in the Stuttgart opera house (and elsewhere later on) being sold-out.

In a normal world people would stay away from such trash (it doesn't deserve any energy/money), but nowadays many seem to have a morbid curiosity to an extent of wasting their time and money away. Notwithstanding of what this may do to them psychologically/mentally. It's just disgusting what sells under the cover of liberalism and tolerance, an utter disgrace.

Here's the article for more information (translation copied in here, with annotations in blue):

“Sancta” in Stuttgart: spectators get sick at the opera - doctor has to be called in

“Now more than ever” is what some might have thought. After all, ticket demand for the provocative “Sancta” performance in Stuttgart exploded following reports of doctors being called in.

Despite - or perhaps because of - an age restriction, bold warnings and reports of emergency medical interventions, there are no more tickets available for the remaining five performances of the provocative and bloody opera performance “Sancta” in Stuttgart. “After the news exploded yesterday, all remaining performances were sold out from yesterday to today,” said Sebastian Ebling, spokesman for the State Opera, to the German Press Agency. However, demand had already been good beforehand. After Stuttgart, the play can be seen on two sold-out evenings at the Volksbühne in Berlin at the end of November.

At the first two “Sancta” evenings in Stuttgart last weekend, visitors had complained of nausea. According to the opera, a doctor was called in three cases.

Performance artist known for provocations

Performance artist Florentina Holzinger has been causing a stir in the theater world for years with her works, in which she radically and revealingly stages female bodies, incorporates painful stunts and does not shy away from trash. In “Sancta”, she brings lesbian love scenes to the stage with provocative clarity, ridicules Christian rituals and denounces the sexual oppression of women. {It's rather a sexual perversion, next to perversion of Christianity and standards of beauty.}

In Schwerin and Vienna, the so-called performance opera had already been acclaimed by sold-out audiences. However, there were no incidents like those in Stuttgart, said Katharina Nelles, Head of Public Relations at the Mecklenburg State Theater. {Why then in Stuttgart, one wonders? Maybe because it's located in a culturally more conservative part than the other places?}

In Stuttgart, on the other hand, some audience members may have underestimated their capacity for suffering and had to be looked after by the visitor service. The theater, which seats around 1,400, expressly warns on its website that the performance by the scandal-ridden Austrian performance artist shows explicit sexual acts as well as depictions and descriptions of sexual violence. Real blood and fake blood, piercings and a wounding can also be seen. Strobe effects, loud noises and incense are also used.

Baden-Württemberg's State Secretary for the Arts Arne Braun (Green Party), who attended the premiere himself, also had little to do with criticism of the performance: “These questions about spirituality, faith, community and the role of the sexes have to be negotiated again and again, including on stage,” he told dpa. “That is the idea behind the freedom of art. And if you don't want to see it, please stay away.” (dpa/pak)

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Here's what Wikipedia says about Florentina Holzinger, the performance artist behind this piece:

Florentina Holzinger
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Florentina Holzinger (born 1986) is an Austrian choreographer, director and performance artist. She is based in the Netherlands.[1]

Holzinger was born in Vienna in 1986,[2] the daughter of a pharmacist and a lawyer.[3] As a child, she was baptised and confirmed Catholic, and formally left the Church as a young adult “to avoid paying tax”.[4] She began studying to be an architect, but soon lost interest, "Too much desk time".[5]

She studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.[2]


Her 2020 dance work Apollon at NYU Skirball, partly based in part on George Balanchine's 1928 work Apollo was called a "feminist freak show" by The New Yorker, with a nude all-female cast, and Apollo as a mechanical bull that they ride for pleasure, along with "playful self-mutilation, dildo use, defecation, and coprophagia".[1]

As of 2024, she is an artist-in-residence at Volksbühne Berlin.[6]

In August 2024, Bergen Kunsthall presented Havneetyde/Harbour Etude, a new large-scale commission, with a warning of "will contain explicit depictions of self-mutilation, piercing, needles, blood, loud sounds, and nudity".[6]

Her first opera production, Sancta, based on Paul Hindemith’s 1920s expressionist opera Sancta Susanna, was staged in October 2024 at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin by the Stuttgart State Opera. It includes live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse among the all-female cast and plentiful (fake and real) blood.[7]


In 2018, she was living and working in Vienna and Amsterdam.[8]

1. ^ Jump up to: a b Brian Seibert (7 February 2020). "Florentina Holzinger". The New Yorker. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Florentina Holzinger". Wiener Festwochen. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
3. ^ Thomas Rogers (14 September 2022). "Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
4. ^ Oltermann, Philip (10 June 2024). "Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
5. ^ "Artist Entrance: Florentina Holzinger". Etcetera (in Flemish). Retrieved 12 October 2024.
6. ^ Jump up to: a b "2024: Florentina Holzinger / Bergen Kunsthall". Bergen Kunsthall. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
7. ^ Oltermann, Philip (10 October 2024). "18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
8. ^ "Artist Residencies". Luma Arles. Retrieved 12 October 2024.

 

[naorma]

In a normal world people would stay away from such trash (it doesn't deserve any energy/money), but nowadays many seem to have a morbid curiosity to an extent of wasting their time and money away.

Unfortunately this is something I observe in my everyday life, too. Very much people are attracted to such awful things.
And - being an Austrian myself - I think I can say "Another nasty Austrian artist", we have so many here . .. this destructive art has been going on for such a long time . . .

 

[Learner]

And - being an Austrian myself - I think I can say "Another nasty Austrian artist", we have so many here . .. this destructive art has been going on for such a long time . . .

Not only in Austria - performance artists in Germany (and possibly many other Western countries) are also setting sad examples for this depraved trend.

For instance, performances in the opera house in my city (Eastern Germany) have been degrading especially in the last 5 or so years. According to a coworker of mine, they performed the ballett "Swan Lake" with guys in tutus creeping across the stage floor - apparently performing "swans swimming on a lake". And if it is the same performance I have in mind, the prince was not a prince but a princess who fell in love with the swan princess. According to same coworker, visitors had not been informed beforehand that this piece was a "modern-day" interpretation - thus many (including my coworker) had been feeling duped, and righteously so. Otherwise, it probably would not have sold itself well.

Other performances in that same location have been adopting queer or depraved elements as well, with some of the plays aimed at kids. The house also sports an LGBTQ rainbow flag on its terrace, and it is regularly illuminated in rainbow lights at night during CSD times.

(edit: clarity)

 

[Breo]

Quotes from the C´s on influencing and controlling creative energy:

There are intense activities directed towards influencing creative forces through psychic projection. The projection is directed as "inspiration" to high level creative forces.

Session 21 September 1996

A: An army of Aryan psychic projectors.

Q: (T) Well, that explains a lot more than Thor's Pantheum of subselect trainees! An army of psychic projectors. (L) And what do they project?

A: Themselves... Right in to one's head.

Q: (T) Into one's head... this is better than 'Must See TV!' (L) Project right into one's head... is anybody subject to this projecting?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) And, when they project themselves right into someone's head, what does that someone perceive?

A: Inspiration.

Q: (L) Inspiration to what, or to do what?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Yes? To do what, to do something?

A: And...

Q: (L) To do something, and to understand or perceive something, is that it?

A: Yes.

Q: (J) To believe something? (L) Yes. So, how many are in this army?

A: 1.6 million.

Q: (L) When they're doing this projecting into someone's head, where are they projecting from?

A: Mostly subterranean.

Q: (L) Subterranean, so these are the people of the tunnels, the underground bases and all that sort of thing. Are they 3rd or 4th density beings?

A: Both.

Q: (T) Let me back up to a question here. If they can do all this projecting on their own, what was the point of the movie?

A: No, you misunderstand... This is an intense activity, directed towards influencing the high level creative forces.

On Earth Changes - earth quakes, tsunamis, cataclysms - and the Human Cosmic Connection: Human consciousness mirrors the cycle of catastrophe. When the higher centers are blocked from full manifestation of creative energy, the energy must go somewhere. If you cannot create "without" you create "within". The STS consortium is trying to suppress steal and control the creative energy from those with higher centers. This may be the cause of their own destruction because that energy is uncontrollable.

Session 9 January 2005
Q: (L) Regarding the recent earthquake and tsunami, there is a huge buzz on the net that this was not a natural phenomenon. Some say it could have been a meteor; others say it was a US nuke; others say it was India and Israel playing around in deep sea trenches. Then there is the speculation on an EM weapon of some description. The New agers are saying it was the start of the final 'Earth Changes". So what really caused this earthquake that happened one year minus one hour after the earthquake in Iran?

A: Pressure in earth. Not any of the proferred suggestions. But remember that the human cycle mirrors the cycle of catastrophe and human mass consciousness plays a part.

Q: In what way does mass consciousness play a part?

A: When those with higher centers are blocked from full manifestation of creative energy, that energy must go somewhere. If you cannot create "without" you create "within".

Q: (L) In other words the acts of the STS consortium in trying to suppress steal and control the creative energy from those with higher centers may be the cause of their own destruction because that energy is uncontrollable.

The STS control indirectly through controlling the creative forces. In doing so, they will make more mistakes and turn the masses against them.

Session 29 december 2009
A: All and more coming down the creativity pipeline.

Q: (L) Could it be said that what we're doing is actually inducing these controlling actions?

A: Yes but that is actually good because it means that their desperation is being driven and they will make more mistakes and turn the masses against them sooner.

Q: (L) So the more positive things we do, and the more creative we become, the more it drives them to try to suppress and repress things in indirect ways to try to suppress and repress us without suppressing and repressing us directly - because that would be too obvious - and by so doing, they show their hand so to speak?

A: Yes

 

[heinrich]

Quotes from the C´s on influencing and controlling creative energy:

There are intense activities directed towards influencing creative forces through psychic projection. The projection is directed as "inspiration" to high level creative forces.



On Earth Changes - earth quakes, tsunamis, cataclysms - and the Human Cosmic Connection: Human consciousness mirrors the cycle of catastrophe. When the higher centers are blocked from full manifestation of creative energy, the energy must go somewhere. If you cannot create "without" you create "within". The STS consortium is trying to suppress steal and control the creative energy from those with higher centers. This may be the cause of their own destruction because that energy is uncontrollable.




The STS control indirectly through controlling the creative forces. In doing so, they will make more mistakes and turn the masses against them.

i am surprised that the actresses agreed to play their roles. what kind of women are these?