Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany – A Cabinet of German Horror

photos: Skylar Kang

Experimental theater nowadays can hardly shock anybody. I have seen everything happening on stage: Blowjobs, Kiss-Orgys, dancers penetrated by giant dildos and even a whole audience who started to take of their clothes. Sometimes these pieces get scandalized in the press, but similarly to the art world the theater world mostly applauds when a tabu gets broken.

The theater piece Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany is premiering tonight in Sophiensaele and has already a scandal going on. The piece was supposed to premiere in Leipzig a couple of weeks ago but didn’t because the managing director of the theater cancelled the show. The reason: a dead pig gets dissected on stage and turned into sausages. After seeing the show, I really wonder, why something which is actually happening all around Germany every day (pigs turned into sausages) should not be shown on a theater stage. Nowadays, nearly everybody has seen so many disgusting things in the food documentaries, that hardly anybody gets shocked by that.

Apart from the pig the piece is a quite original perfomance. Its inspired by a Bavarian enclave called “Villa Baviera” in Chile. If you would go there you would think that it was a beautiful fake Germany with girls in dirndls and boys in leather shorts. The truth behind the folklore-kitsch is that it was the residence of a horrible sect and a torture camp for children for over 40 years. After it was closed in 2005 and the sect leader who molested several children got finally convicted the place was turned into a vacation resort. This absurd story is the starting point for an evening with shocking pictures and impressive stage design. Check out the photos and the dates after the jump.

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

Monster Truck: Welcome to Germany

May 7, 8, 9, 11 2015 – 20h

Sophiensaele

Sophienstraße 18

10178 Berlin Mitte

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