Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch (1938–2022) was an Austrian artist and composer who developed the Orgien Mysterien Theater, a vast ritual performance conceived as a total artwork combining painting, music, theatre, and Dionysian ceremony. Emerging from Viennese Actionism alongside Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, he developed large-scale outdoor events — Aktionen — at his castle in Prinzendorf, Austria, lasting for days and involving the slaughter of animals, rivers of blood, and hundreds of participants. His work drew on Catholic liturgy, Freudian theory, and Nietzschean philosophy, proposing that ritual confrontation with death and primal experience was a path to catharsis.
In the archive
- 6. Sinfonie - Allerheiligenkonzert Tochnit Aleph — TA135
- Musik Der 60. Aktion, Berlin 1978 Alga Marghen — Plana-N 1AKT004
- Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche 20.11.2013 Trost Records — TR160
- Orgien Mysterien Theater - Musik der 135. Aktion, Kuba Trost Records — TR175
- Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters Cortical Foundation – organ of Corti 17
Played on
- Mixtape — 30 April 2026 Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters: Day 5