Posted on 05/30/2025 11:14:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BERLIN (AP) — A performance inside a Catholic cathedral in Germany earlier this month that featured raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers onstage — and the country’s president and the local archbishop in the audience — has prompted the church and municipal leaders to apologize that the show “hurt religious feelings.”
The show, “Westphalia Side Story,” was part of a May 15 celebration to mark the 1,250th anniversary of Westphalia, a region in northwestern Germany.
Video footage shows one woman and two shirtless men singing “Fleisch ist Fleisch” (“Meat is meat”) — apparently spoofing Austrian band Opus’ 1984 pop song “Live is Life” — with scythes and dancing with the dead chickens on a stage in front of Paderborn Cathedral’s altar.
Performance company bodytalk said in a statement Friday that the show featured work-in-progress excerpts from “Westphalia Side Story” — which references the American musical “West Side Story.”
The finished show, which will premiere in September, is supposed to be part of the 1,250th anniversary’s cultural programming.
“It was not meant to be a spoof at all,” bodytalk cofounder Rolf Baumgart said in an email to The Associated Press. “As Westphalia is a rural dominated region with a turbulent history our research was focused on that.”
The spectacle also prompted an online petition — signed by more than 22,000 people by Friday afternoon — that asks Paderborn Archbishop Udo Bentz for a personal apology, as well as penance. The signers also want him to reconsecrate the cathedral after it was “desecrated by this performance.”
In a statement posted online to the cathedral’s website more than a week after the performance, the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and the church’s leadership said that the content of the performance wasn’t known to the organizers or the venue.
The cathedral, the statement said, is...
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Germans have a weird sense of ‘art’....................
I missed the word ‘raw’ at first, and thought this was something like the Blessing of Animals on St. Francis Day.
But it’s not...
The emperor has no clothes. Only diapers.
“A performance inside a Catholic cathedral in Germany earlier this month that featured raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers onstage”. I wonder if any of them chickens was three-legged? We’ve had ‘em start showing up here on the farm. I reckon it’s global warming.
BBQ after the show...................😏
As a group, the German bishops are a bunch of li attic heretics. Not surprised by this at all
The cathedral in Westphalia was obviously erected to be Westphalic symbol
They are too ball-less to do it in a mosque.
Putin, please take Germany while you are at it.
Not just Germans, but Europeans in general. Remember the Olympic opening ceremony, and that weird pagan ceremony to open a tunnel under an Alp?
No apologies needed. Inquisitions; yes.
Reason 117 for why I no longer attend church...
Abhp Bentz must be on the sauce or drugs, maybe both.
Or the weird indigenous statement Canada and Australia have to say
Video footage shows one woman and two shirtless men singing “Fleisch ist Fleisch” (“Meat is meat”) — apparently spoofing Austrian band Opus’ 1984 pop song “Live is Life” — with scythes and dancing with the dead chickens on a stage in front of Paderborn Cathedral’s altar.
Gives a whole new perspective on Westphalian ham, don’t it now?
There shall be no random chicken s**t. All chicken s**t shall be collected in diapers and properly disposed of.
Sicko alert sicko alert
Very strange
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