Soli-Event für CSD Bautzen. Ein Abend von und mit Franziska Gänsler und Oska Borcherding zu Joan Nestles „Begehren und Widerstand“

In the organizer's words:

To kick off Pride Month, etece buch Verlag invites all queers, friends & lovers on June 1st! Together we want to celebrate the wonderful activist, author and archivist Joan Nestle, Pride Month and our encounter with each other. Admission is on a donation basis. All proceeds will go to the CSD Bautzen.

Franziska Gänsler and Oska Borcherding will artistically explore Joan Nestle's "Desire and Resistance". They take a dialogical approach to the author, activist and archivist and explore the significance of her work for today's issues in the form of readings and discussions. Afterwards there will be a get-together and exchange over drinks at the Lettrétage bar. Admission from 19:30.

About Joan Nestle

"Desire and Resistance" by Joan Nestle is a powerful collection of essays and short stories that was first published in German translation in 2024. As a lesbian-queer Jewish fem from the US working class, Nestle offers a penetrating look at sex, community, gender, intersectionality, leftist resistance and queer history. The anthology covers her political struggles since the 1950s, from the civil rights movement to lesbian-feminist alliances. Nestle's explicit portrayal of queer sexuality was both groundbreaking and controversial in the 1980s and has lost none of its empowering effect since then. The book is a contemporary testimony that brings queer history to life and at the same time remains highly topical.

The panelists

Franziska Gänsler's debut novel "Ewig Sommer" was published by Kein und Aber in 2022. It was translated into several languages, adapted for the stage and awarded the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Literature and the City of Augsburg's Literature Promotion Prize in 2023. Her second novel "Wie Inseln im Licht" was published in 2024 , also by Kein und Aber. She lives in Augsburg and Berlin.

Oska Melina Borcherding is a trained actor and dancer. He was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Theater an der Parkaue and part of the main cast of the ARD series WaPo-Berlin. He has worked regularly as a performer with the collective GobSquad for several years and choreographically accompanies Sandra Bezler's productions. He studied acting at the HMTM Hanover and choreography at the HZT Berlin. In his own artistic projects, he explores the search for self-determined narrative forms.

Donation purpose

On Sunday, 10.08.2025, the 3rd CSD Bautzen will take place.
Queer people in Bautzen and East Saxony are particularly affected by intolerance and right-wing extremist violence. The CSD sends out an important signal for self-determination, tolerance, freedom and diversity. Participation in the demonstration in Bautzen requires particular courage, as the threat from right-wing groups is high. Outside support provides security, makes queer people visible and shows that they are not alone. The CSD is a statement against hate and for an open society and shows that diversity and human rights are also defended in smaller towns. We want to honor and support the commitment of local people! In addition to the fundraising campaign, we are encouraging people from all over Germany to come together and take part in CSD Bautzen.

50% of the evening's proceeds will be paid as fees to the panelists who are organizing the evening for us. Another 50% to the CSD Bautzen. All incidental payment costs will be covered by the publisher.

Price information:

Donation basis (Box Office): A collection will be made for the CSD Bautzen.