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!
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