In the organizer's words:

A play by Jette Büshel

approx. one hour and twenty minutes, no intermission

Generations have grown up with her, can sing (and dance!) along to her songs and have countless images of her in front of their eyes: Britney Spears! The "Princess of Pop" first experienced her rise from the American provinces to the heights of the pop charts from 1999 onwards, before her body, personality and private life were picked apart and negotiated in all the media. In the end, she was able to successfully free herself from her father's thirteen years of unlawful guardianship, which had dictated every aspect of her daily life down to the smallest detail. It all seems like a (nightmare) dream come true. What collective fantasy is formed around this person hidden behind biographical data, lurid headlines and floods of images? We know her as the schoolgirl from the video for "...Baby One More Time", the singer with the snake on her shoulders, the woman who shaved her head bald and then had it tattooed or the supposedly private Britney who films herself dancing for Instagram. Who is appropriating which version of Britney for themselves? And if this is all a dream (in a dream?), who is dreaming it?

Along moments in Britney Spears' biography, "Toxic - #freeBritney" opens up discourses on the cult of personality and stardom in the late 90s and early 2000s, power structures in the music business, media attacks on young women and the individual struggle for liberation of an artist who became an icon of her own movement.