Kaffeeklatsch – ungefragt und ungefiltert

In the organizer's words:

NRW's gayest talk show host Thomas Bartling is organizing a "ladies' circle" to open the festival. Here there is room to talk about the nicest trivialities: The gossip of the stars, the gossip of celebrities and the aristocracy. This time, he welcomes Lars Tönsfeuerborn, podcaster (including "Niemand muss ein Promi sein" with Elena Gruschka) and winner of the first Prince Charming season, drag queen Miss Sara Jevo and Kathrin Ebmeier, artist and initiator, to the Oval Office Bar in Bochum for coffee and cake. At the festival center, these guests will encounter scandals, delicious cakes and provocative questions.

For several years, performance artist Bartling has been investigating the media presence of queer people on television in the 2000s. At that time, they were often shrill supporting characters, good listeners or eccentric pranksters. Ralph Morgenstern, Dirk Bach and Hella von Sinnen were the funny exotic characters for a heterosexual mainstream audience. In "Kaffeeklatsch", Ralph Morgenstern invited four non-celebrity ladies to eat cake and talk about celebrity news and scandals. 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 casual conversation and to get into conversation with each other.