“Nudity is something natural,” says actress and author Antje Nikola Mönning. She campaigns for the right to public nudity. Also because she herself was once at the center of an alleged nude scandal.
By Jo Berlien
Antje Nikola Mönning, 46, is not an activist but an actress. With the means of an activist, however, she won a supposed scandal in 2018: she was reported because she had shown herself half-naked in a parking lot in the Allgäu. Mönning won the process. Provocation, however, remains her means of expression. She makes films with pornographic scenes and once gave a nude interview. Now she has written a book. It is an experience report and an attempt at an overview of the sexual behavior of Germans beyond the mainstream, title: “Not normal is quite normal”.
Ms. Moenning, in In your book you advocate a right to public nudity. If you take your demand politically, that could mean: Just as democracy has to be defended again and again, does the understanding of morality also have to be renegotiated and adjusted?
Absolutely! Our moral concepts have changed again and again over the decades. Homosexuality, for example, which was actually still punishable between men up until 1994, is now fortunately widely accepted. If we manage to break the taboo on nudity, our society as a whole could benefit.
In what way?