KAFFEEKLATSCH

Performance talk show with Thomas Bartling and guests

Coffee gossip - unasked and unfiltered. Thomas Bartling invites his guests to discuss THE topics of the day in a ladies' circle. This coffee klatsch is a queer space for chatting about the nicest trivialities: The gossip of the stars, the gossip of celebrities and the aristocracy.

Thomas Bartling is a pop performance artist from Cologne and his repertoire includes formats such as a cooking show, porn and a pop album. With Çakey Blond he explores art forms such as drag, wrestling and DJ-ing. As flamboi& he creates cheesy contemporary pop as a live soundtrack for a dream trip to Xanadu's Camptopia.

The only NAOMY is Germany's most successful daughter after Patricia Blanco. "Blonde Pretty Basic" and in search of a man with more biceps than her waist size. One thing is clear, the tea is hot and she has a lot to spill. On Drag Race Germany, she was always trying.

Liz Sonnen is a freelance theater maker in Düsseldorf. She organizes her lesbian salon SONNENSTUDIO every two months in the Unterhaus of the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In her work, she deals with queer-feminist issues.

Kathrin Ebmeier is an artist in various formats: K performs on stages, curates events & spaces and develops dramaturgy that invites participants into fictional times and environments. As the initiator of the queer Oval Office Bar (Schauspielhaus Bochum) and as part of Anna Kpok, Kathrin is often on the road in collectives.

Queer people on television in the 2000s were often shrill supporting characters, good listeners or eccentric pranksters. Ralph Morgenstern, Dirk Bach and Hella von Sinnen were the funny exotics for a heterosexual mainstream audience. In Kaffeeklatsch, Ralph Morgenstern invited four non-celebrity ladies to eat cake and talk about news and scandals of the stars, celebrities and the aristocracy of the week. The Kaffeeklatsch with Thomas Bartling has the same function and takes the afternoon snack as an opportunity to look at current affairs from a queer perspective in a relaxed conversation and to get into conversation with each other.

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and by conceptual funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia