5 questions to the artist Hermann Nitsch

hermann nitsch, artist from vienna, austria. photography © philipp schuster

please note: the text is written in lowercase at the kind request of the artist.

1.tell us what you do and your beginnings.

in the early 1960s i started to develop my theatre of orgies and mysteries. i was interested in a total work of art close to happenings, action and performanc…