Working Class Daughters. Über Klasse sprechen und singen

In the organizer's words:

Bring Labor Day to a close at the Lenbachhaus - in the garden if the weather is fine - with a performative reading by the Working Class Daughters and a concert by Quergesang - Münchner Gewerkschaftschor.

Quergesang will not only sing songs from the workers' movement, but also songs of resistance, action, agitation and mockery from here and elsewhere, reflecting the successes and setbacks in the struggle for a better life. And what better day for such songs than May Day, the day of the international labor movement?

Afterwards, the Working Class Daughters will read from their book"Working Class Daughters. Talking about class". It brings together conversations about class, gender, queerness, work, migration, resistance and care. The book is based on interviews that Karolina and Kristina Dreit conducted individually using a questionnaire and arranged into "conversations at the kitchen table". How did you grow up? What role did work and financial security play? When did you first realize that there was such a thing as class? Many of the interviewees are or were active in the arts and cultural sector. All are or were once daughters. The book asserts a reality in which talking about class is not borne of shame or isolation, but creates connections.

Karolina Dreit is the daughter of a worker and a post-eastern migrant. She studied sociology and works as a cultural worker and teacher. She is interested in labor struggles, undogmatic perspectives on class and unifying political practices.
Kristina Dreit is an artist and dramaturge. Using steel as an example, she researches the history of materials and the connection between body, class and gender.
Working Class Daughters is a project that Kristina Dreit and Karolina Dreit have been working on since 2018. In changing collaborations, they realize performances, installations and interventions in public space. For "Working Class Daughters. Talking about Class" they worked with the artist Selina Lampe, who developed "visual inscriptions" for the book. Published in 2024 by Mandelbaum Verlag.

Program:

6pm-10pm: Free&Easy - Free admission to all exhibitions, with drinks from ELLA and music from Radio 80000.

18:30: Concert by Quergesang - Munich trade union choir

19:30: Performative reading by the Working Class Daughters

20:30: Artist talk

Price information:

Free of charge, no registration necessary.