The actress Verena Altenberger, who plays the passion in "Jedermann" in Salzburg, has complained about a critic.
He accused her, she said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, of "having too small breasts".
"It literally says: 'astonishingly little penitence'." That is not true.
Manuel Brug literally says in the newspaper Welt on July 30th: "Buhlschaft, this year with hardly any boos and even less hair, this time definitely has its pants on in the most expensive amateur play in the world."
Brug had no reason to be astonished. He sums up a change in type in the character's equipment, which year after year is the focus of reporting and especially of preliminary reporting, although it has only a few verses. Turning away from the appearance of women, which older generations of critics used to describe the word fields of charm and opulence, can no longer tear the chronicler, who has already seen almost everything in Salzburg, off the bench on Domplatz. "That was a gradual process that has been going on for years."
Deutschlandfunk Kultur interviewed Altenberger and broadcast two more reports in the following days, because the issue is ascribed "overall social" importance. Altenberger complains about discrimination, unjust treatment because of her gender. “That is a devaluation of women if you sexualize them and judge them by their appearance. We just talk about the body and we can judge it from the outside. "
The premises of this judgment are not fulfilled here. Brug does not judge Altenberger at all - because he completely abstains from a critical assessment of the performance. For him it is not a worthy object of criticism, but only a ritual spectacle, interesting at best as a document of shifts in the presentation of gender clichés. And Brug doesn't just talk about the body when it comes to female staff. The actor of the debt servant and Mammon is presented as "the well-built Mirco Kreibich". The word about missing breast falls three sentences before the name of the actress. It's about the first impression of the allegorically conceived figure, about what the audience gets to see - like everyone who comments on the performance of the fanatics, accompanied by “minstrels and boys”: “But now it's not just in the ear./ Also the eyes stand out. "
In its advertising on social media, Deutschlandfunk Kultur claims that Brug has objected to "the actress's chest size". He didn't even object to the occupation policy, just described it. The broadcaster had Brug explain what he had written in an interview. A day later, the station's theater editor denounced him as a sexist who had let himself be carried away by his “private tastes”. “On the debate about the 'Buhlschaftsbusen'” is the heading of the comment. In order for the debate to continue, Mirco Kreibich has to take the floor.