Cocktails, Camp & Critical Cuteness - Die Revue meines Lebens

In the organizer's words:

Direction and conceptThomas Bartling | Composition Marcel Tolle | Video art Philipp Wachowitz | Costume Crimson Vixe With Gareth Charles, Marcus Chiwaeze, Jolinus M. Pape and Thomas Bartling

Premiere on September 13, 2025

With a mixture of queer humor, pop-cultural overdrive and sharp social analysis, Thomas Bartling has established himself as one of the most provocative voices on the German performance scene in recent years. His works oscillate between trash and theory, teleshopping and theater, entertainment and debunking - always with a keen eye on the political in the everyday. Are you man enough to camp? This evening mixes the splendor and misery of queer performance art with critical masculinity and eccentric self-empowerment. With machos, myths and martinis, Bartling and his ensemble anticipate their own retrospective and thus question the future value of queer performance art, because glitter is political and also surprisingly delicious. Stirred, Not Straight! Supported by conceptual funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia