Queer Doc

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Consultation hour with in-house author Leo Lorena Wyss

The "Queer Doc" format ("doc" is short for "document" and "doctor") combines the topics of queerness, medicine and authorship in a discussion between in-house author Leo Lorena Wyss and institutions and actors from Mannheim and the surrounding area. Following the premiere of Wyss' new play "Apropos Schmerz (Denken Sie an etwas Schönes)", which incorporates the results of the last two issues of "Queer Doc", the March issue focuses on theater attendance itself. What barriers does it have and how can these be broken down? Wyss' play is about the experience of the queer young woman Anna Blume, who is looking for a diagnosis for her chronic pain. The text impressively shows what restrictions the illness means for Anna's life. Almost one in four people in Germany has an officially recognized severe disability or lives with a chronic illness that leads to considerable restrictions in everyday life. This has an impact on their job, social environment and leisure time. What about participation in the theater? We talk to two theater makers about the structural and concrete obstacles and about ways in which barriers for chronically ill people can be broken down - both in the audience and for artists. Our guests are Nicole Libnau , festival director of the Schwindelfrei Festival Mannheim and responsible project manager for the performing arts in Mannheim and Lea Gockel , theater maker and responsible for the coordination of accessibility at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt. Moderated for the discussion by in-house author Leo Lorena Wyss. Please wear FFP2 masks. This content has been machine translated.