In the organizer's words:

with texts by Mareike Fallwickl, lynn t musiol and Jacinta Nandi

The nobility and the monarchy have always served as a projection surface and a source of fascination. Every royal misstep, every fraud, every scandal, every marriage and every intrigue has the potential to move the masses. What is it about the royals and their distant lives that fascinates us - and triggers us? Series such as "The Empress" and "The Crown" testify to a contradictory fascination with their exclusive existence. For alongside luxury and pomp, it is precisely the dark side of power that seems to make her shimmer: Loneliness, pressure to perform, abuse and self-exploitation characterize most royal biographies. The chosen ones are rarely happy. And what legitimacy does an unelected super-elite, who often have blood and colonial land grabs on their hands, actually have? Where does all the money come from? The royals need a critical inventory. In her production, Jorinde Dröse brings together various aristocratic female figures from the last few centuries and uses them to search for the functions they fulfill in our historiography, entertainment culture and patriarchy. What sisterhoods and alliances across places, classes and times could turn the huts and palaces into just and free places?

Production : Jorinde Dröse

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