Andrea Venhaus

Andrea Venhaus (* July 1967 in Dortmund ), also known under the stage name Needlewitch (Nadelhexe), is a German piercer , body modder , speaker and actress .

Life

Andrea Venhaus learned her medical skills, among other things, in nursing for the elderly , caring for the severely handicapped and as a consultant at the German AIDS service .

In 1989 she started piercing and in 1993 opened the first piercing studio in Dortmund. Over time, Cutten (1994) and Branden (1995) were added to piercing, and since 1996 Venhaus has also been splitting tongues, placing genital beadings and other implants and performing various other forms of body modifications . In 1994 she created the technique of stacking for temporary body decoration. In 1999 she was the first branding woman in Germany to start branding with an HF cautery (high-frequency surgical device), which opens up completely new creative possibilities for branding. Venhaus has been bringing the topic of piercing and body modification into various media since 1994, with the aim of generating positive reports in the public.

In 1994 she founded, together with Frank Oest, the performance group Lacrima Rubra , with which it has since occasionally Fakir -, needle - and suspension shows occurs and also in the WDR / Arte - documentation irritable skin from 1998 can be seen.

Venhaus is a co-founder of the association “SMart-Rhein-Ruhr eV” and, in the two years of group work before the association was founded, together with Claudia Packmohr, she laid the foundations for this association and wrote the first statutes. Since 1988 she has done important pioneering work in public relations for the then still young SM scene in Germany. Venhaus was also involved in the founding of "Quälgeist eV" and the "Democratic Lesbian and Gay Initiative (DeLSI)". She initiated the first bisexual group LiBiDo and also the first S / M group SexManiacs in Dortmund and also played a role in the creation of the so-called "Trier Study" ( Sadomasochism - Scenes and Rituals , 1993), the first real scientific study on the subject SM in Germany. Since then she has contributed to the creation of various other study and diploma theses on the subject of SM, but also on piercing, branding and body modification.

Media presence

Venhaus published articles in the German Tattoo Magazine and other magazines and was involved in numerous television documentaries and reports .

She worked in the feature film Oi! Warning by the twin brothers Benjamin and Dominik Reding.

For example, she was a guest at Vera Int-Veen , Nicole Noevers , Hans Meiser and Ilona Christen , but also at Spiegel-TV-Talk . In addition, RTL in Mittagsjournal and Explosiv , the evening news from N24 , ZDF in Hallo Deutschland , WDR in Planet Wissen , Arte with the documentary Reiz der Haut , Canal Plus France , SAT.1 , VOX , RTL 2 , Kabel 1 and the evening news from Pro7 reported on Venhaus. Also appeared in various newspapers and magazines such as Marabo , Ruhr-Nachrichten , WAZ , BILD , Westfälische Nachrichten , reports and portraits about Andrea Venhaus.

At the beginning of January 2009, RTL II showed Venhaus working with piercing and cutting in the program Exklusiv - The report with the title: Body Extreme - attracting attention at all costs with its studio Deep Metal Piercing & Bodymodification .

There was a detailed studio portrait on January 22nd, 2009, also from RTL II Exklusiv - The report with the title: Burned and sewn up - body cult in Germany , including branding, implants, cutting, piercing and lip sewing from the Deep Metal Studio.

Web links

• Andrea Venhaus in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decorative scars, intimate jewelery and forked tongues, Westfälische Allgemeine Zeitung, September 11, 2009
2. ^ Show group Lacrima Rubra
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: irritation of the skin documentation on 3sat