Photo:DPAA publicity stunt for the Kinky Boots musical almost turned deadly when an artist lost her grip and fell off the Bismarck Monument in Hamburg while attempting to promote the show. 32-year-old Ulrike B. was part of a pair of pop artists commissioned to promote the musical 'Kinky Boots', which is coming to the Hamburg Opera house in December, the Hamburger Morgenpost reports. Through the fall, the woman was seriously injured, sustaining a pelvic fracture and a cranial brain trauma. The pop artists had not sought out permission from the district office for the publicity stunt and, according to a department spokesperson “we would’ve certainly not approved such action”. "We are investigating the agency, Heimat Hamburg, for negligent personal injury," a spokesperson for the Hamburg Police service told Bild.

Source: The Local September 22, 2017 13:07 UTC