Name: Dead Ladies Show #38
Start: 2025-02-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Lettrétage

The DEAD LADIES SHOW is a series of entertaining and inspiring presentations on women who achieved amazing things against all odds. Each show hosts passionate cheerleaders of too-oft forgotten women, inviting its loyal audience into a sexy séance (of sorts) celebrating these impressive icons, turbulent lives, and deathless legacies.
This time we're doing it on a SUNDAY – so we're starting an hour earlier, at 7 pm. Other than that, you'll get exactly what you know and cherish about us: three talks on ladies you'll love to learn about, one in German and two in English, a charming audience, and a warm and entertaining atmosphere. Your beloved co-hosts FLORIAN DUIJSENS and KATY DERBYSHIRE will both be presenting, joined by our very special guest, the writer and blog producer MIKU SOPHIE KÜHMEL.
We no longer have funding, so the non-reduced price is €10, but reduced tickets still cost €4. Doors open 6:30 pm – come on time to get a good seat!
Who are the ladies this time? Well...
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We start way back in about the year 60 CE, with BOUDICA of the British Iceni tribe, who led a rebellion against the occupying Romans. We don't know a whole lot about her, since the victorious Romans wrote the history books, so she became a bit of a blank slate for imperialist projections – most of which spell her name wrong. But the suffragettes also adopted her as a mascot, and hey, Enya wrote a song about her.
Our next dead lady lived closer to home: you can visit her house in Berlin-Heiligensee. HANNAH HÖCH was an artist in the Dada movement, creating collages from 1916 on and often addressing gender roles and expectations. The Nazis labelled her work "degenerate art" and made survival hard for her, but she managed to preserve numerous Dada artworks and documents from destruction. After the war she exhibited internationally again and gave lectures on women and art.
DOROTHY THOMPSON was a foreign correspondent and the first US journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, a pretty good sign. In Vienna and Berlin, she'd hung out with all the cool kids – maybe even Hannah. Back in the States, she provided commentary and analysis on Europe for newspapers, magazines, and NBC radio, warning urgently against the Nazis and advocating on behalf of Jewish refugees. Katharine Hepburn played a journalist loosely based on Thompsom in a 1942 romcom, which Louis B. Mayer had rewritten to be less feminist.