FLORENTINA HOLZINGER A Year Without Summer

In the organizer's words:

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In the latest work by this summer festival accomplice, summer may be absent, but not the disturbingly sensual flood of images with which the exceptional artist redefines theater.

Florentina Holzinger breathes new life into the old medium of theater with feminist force. In excessive stage spectacles, she liberates the body from beauty norms and role models in order to show it in all its vulnerability and strength. Most recently, Monopol magazine named her the most influential artist of the year; together with Marlene Monteiro Freitas, she will help shape the future of the Berlin Volksbühne; and at the upcoming Venice Biennale, she will represent Austria (not far from Miet Warlop's Belgian pavilion). The summer festival has been showing Florentina Holzinger's genre-busting works since the beginning of her career and is now presenting her latest theater work as a co-production. The work is based on the "Year Without a Summer" of 1816, when a volcanic eruption triggered a global climate catastrophe (see also Lord Byron's text), while at the same time the writer Mary Shelley created a pop-cultural icon of the monstrous with "Frankenstein". In this balancing act between the desire for eternal life and certain death, the stage becomes an apocalyptic test laboratory and the body is exposed to ever more radical weather conditions. With real blood, storms and staged as a musical.

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The latest disturbingly sensual flood of images from an exceptional artist redefining theater.

Florentina Holzinger infuses the world of theater with fresh energy through feminist power. Her bold stage spectacles break free from beauty standards and gender roles, revealing the body's strength and fragility. Recently, Monopol Magazine named her the most influential artist of the year; together with Marlene Monteiro Freitas, she will shape the future of Berlin's Volksbühne; and she'll represent Austria at the next Venice Biennale (near Miet Warlop's Belgian pavilion). Since the start of her career, the Summer Festival has featured Holzinger's genre-defying works and also coproduced her newest piece. Inspired by the "year without a summer" 1816 - when a volcanic eruption caused a global climate crisis while Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" - the piece explores the tension between the quest for eternal life and the certainty of death. The stage becomes an apocalyptic lab where the body endures radical weather - complete with real blood storms, staged as a musical!

Price information:

9-45 Euro (50% reduced with festival ticket)