Soli-Abend für CSD Bautzen. Lesung & Gespräch mit Franziska Gänsler und Oska Melina Borcherding

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 the opportunity to network with each other. 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.

"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 depiction 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.

Franziska Gänsler studied art and English in Berlin, Vienna and Augsburg. In 2020, she was a finalist in the 28th open mike. Her debut novel Ewig Sommer was published in 2022, translated into French, nominated for various prizes and awarded the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Literature and the City of Augsburg's Literature Promotion Prize in 2023. 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 GobSquad collective 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.

Price information:

All proceeds go to the CSD Bautzen.