April 15th, 2003
Volksbühne Berlin
Volksbühne Berlin: The Golden Age of Grotesque
Installation and Performance with Marilyn Manson
"High above Marlene Dietrich Blvd. in the city of Berlin, the sun smoldered below the concrete gutter sky like a cigarette burn in a stained bedsheet. We set forth to the Dome of Berlin at dusk and I felt like I was in my own painting, "The Death of Art." Helnwein and I created a living installation with two disabled nude women as families stopped their picnics to stare. Of course we documented this for future viewing. But it didn't begin there... "Determined, I headed for the birthplace of Expressionism, humming "The Alabama Song," by Kurt Weill. It was time for The Grotesk Burlesk and dozens of mice scurried from the Kinderfeld. Their political organs had to be removed and we set them in formation, creating a metaphorical "question mark." Marilyn Manson
The Golden Age
The Golden Age
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
The Golden Age
Helnwein painting girl for the "mObscene"-video
14.Apr.2003
Berliner Zeitung — Harald Peters
Helnwein and Manson meeting Antje Vollmer, Speaker of German Parliament
Helnwein, Antje Vollmer, Speaker of German Parliament and Manson
Volksbühne Berlin is the place where Gottfried Helnwein created stage, costumes and make-up for "Macbeth" by Hans Kresnik's Choreographic Theatre, 1995.