Auf die Bühnen!

In the organizer's words:

Art and protest have always gone hand in hand in the queer community. And safe spaces for LGBTQIA* people were often also places for the performing arts or gave rise to new aesthetics. From the smoky revue theaters that Christopher Isherwood encountered in 1920s Berlin, to ballroom culture in the US and agitational street theater in the mid-20th century, to queer performance art and the increased appearance of travesty in mainstream media. In the discussion, the panelists will search for similarities and differences between queer stage arts and ask how they can contribute to the construction of safer spaces and what happens when queer art becomes a mass phenomenon.

Sitting on the podium: André Kaczmarczyk (actor and theater director), Zoe (performance artist and leading figure of ballroom culture), LCavaliero Mann (trans* activist, DJ and former head of the cult club Schwuz in Berlin) and Lasse Scheiba (cultural scientist and drag queen Effi Biest).