Last Week in Review

Missed the last TEDDY-news? No time to check our daily updates on our blog and social media? Don’t worry! Here’s everything you shouldn’t have missed.

Berlinale is around the corner and the TEDDY team is assembling to plan the 29th edition of the TEDDY AWARD. Last week we moved into our office and supplied ourselves with large amounts of chocolate, fruits and coffee. Ready to go!

büroblog2

This year, as every year, there will be tons of great artists at the TEDDY AWARD. We are really proud to announce that Ingrid Caven will join us this year. Since the late seventies, she’s one of the biggest stars of chanson, often compared to Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf. Fans of the German band Tocotronic should also know her name, as the band has been closing their shows with her chanson „Die großen weißen Vögel“ for years.

CAVEN_13x18_3

Before Caven became a singer, she acted in many Rainer Werner Fassbinder  movies. She was life-long friends with the director, they were even married for two years. She will perform a couple of her classics in a homage to the late Fassbinder. Fassbinder is also the face of our poster this year, which was painted by  Rinaldo Hopf and designed by cabine.

Poster-OK-purple-stripes-23

Besides Ingrid Caven, we’re looking forward to the Vienna-based band POP:SCH, who will perform their anti-homophobia-anthem “shut up haters”. And, of course, the great Udo Kier will join us to accept his Special TEDDY AWARD.

A familiar face will join us again this year: Jochen Schropp will host the TEDDY AWARD for the fourth time. Yay!

Jochen_Schropp2000

Opening and closing party will take place at  SchwuZ again. And it will be wild :)

 Who, like us, can hardly wait for the TEDDY to begin and wants to read more can check out Sebastian waking up from a food coma and Audrey reporting on homophobia in Hollywood.

All the events are now online. Our website and blog will be updated with news about the program, the lazy ones can read the next Last Week in Review with all the important news.

See you next week!

 

TEDDY Events 2015

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 2015, 10 pm
Wieland Speck and the TEDDY foundation present MonGay Special
INTRODUCTION TO THE QUEER FILMS OF THE 65th BERLINALE  @ Kino International
Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin
Head of the Panorama Section Wieland Speck presents the 2015 TEDDY programm.
Entrance fee: full price : 7 euro, concessions: 6,50 euro.
Ticket proceeds go to the TEDDY foundation.
>>>Facebook-event


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2 pm
BERLINALE TALK @ Berlinale Lounge
with UDO KIER and Deutschlandradio Kultur
Broadcast on February 9th, 9 am
Audi Berlinale Lounge at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Free entry
>>>Facebook-event


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2015, 10 pm
Reception for the TEDDY Jury 2015
TEDDY GRAND OPENING NIGHT  @ SchwuZ “London Calling”
Rollbergstraße 26, 12053 Berlin
Entrance fee: 6 euro until midnight, afterwards 8 euro
Rock: Lego & marsmaedchen
Elektronische Tanzmusik: Chance&Dark, Lucky Pierre & Ena Lind
Janus-floor: dpd & M.E.S.H
Info booth concerning trans* issues and Chelsea Manning with Free Chelsea Manning Berlin  and Queer Amnesty Berlin
>>>Facebook-event


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 8 to 9 pm
BERLINALE TALK @ Berlinale Lounge
“The years with Fassbinder”
UDO KIER and INGRID CAVEN
Audi Berlinale Lounge at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz
Free entry
>>> Facebook-event


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 2015, 9 pm

9 pm: 29th TEDDY AWARD GALA @ Komische Oper Berlin
Behrenstraße 55-57, 10117 Berlin
Host: JOCHEN SCHROPP
with :
INGRID CARVEN
KATHERINE MEHRLING
AGNES ZWIERKO
POP:SCH
FELIX AND FLOW
with the ORCHESTER DER KOMISCHEN OPER BERLIN
with a tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder
and many more tba
Special TEDDY AWARD: UDO KIER

11 pm: TEDDY AFTER SHOW LOUNGE, CHILL & DANCE
with “L’ensemble transes continentales” and  “Das blaue Wunder” feat. Magnus and Norbert

And for those who want to party all night, we organized a party shuttle bus who will bring you to the TEDDY AWARD Closing Party at the SchwuZ. Entrance is included in the Gala ticket fee.

>>>Facebook-event


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 2015, 11 pm

TEDDY 2015 CLOSING PARTY @ SchwuZ “Partysane”
Rollbergstraße 26, 12053 Berlin
Entrance fee: 8 euro until midnight, afterwards 10 euro
Entrance fee includes support for the TEDDY foundation
Rotz’n’pop: Gloria Viagra & Pa$cha
Urban Sounds: Black Cracker & Friends
Discoelectro: Disco Gessner & hintergrundrauschen
Live: POP:SCH
Info booth concerning trans* issues and Chelsea Manning with Free Chelsea Manning Berlin  and Queer Amnesty Berlin
>>> Facebook-event


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th 2015, 8 pm
TEDDY SHORTS 
Filmscreening in cooperation with Mobile Kino
Entrance fee: 5 Euro
SchwuZ, Rollbergstraße 26, 12053 Berlin
>>> Facebook-event


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2015
TEDDY AWARD on TV, ARTE Television
29th TEDDY AWARD GALA
in German and in French
time tba

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 2015, 10 pm

Wieland Speck and the TEDDY foundation present MonGay Special
TEDDY AWARD WINNER FILM(S) FROM THE 65th BERLINALE @
Kino International
Kino International, Karl-Marx-Allee 33, 10178 Berlin
Entrance fee: full price : 7 euro, concessions: 6,50 euro.
Ticket proceeds go to the TEDDY foundation.
>>> Facebook-event

   POSTER-A1-version4

Hollywood’s homophobic side

How intolerant is Hollywood towards gay and transsexual people? A survey* among thousands of Hollywood actors followed this question. The result shows a doleful picture of the dream factory.

jimmy_fallon_thumbs_down

Discrimination and homophobic comments are almost on the agenda in Hollywood. A survey from the University of Los Angeles shows that more than half of the LG actors already have heard anti-gay comments. 53% of LGBT respondents believe that directors and producers are biased against
LGBT performers. The big challenge with the role search, the fear of a career crease and a prejudiced role picture turn many actor’s coming out into a difficult undertaking in Hollywood.

However, the survey shows a positive development too.

giphy_applause
53 percent of lesbian and gay actors come out to their fellow actors. The majority generally supports LGBT people playing heterosexual and non-transgender roles. For example, 80% of respondents agreed that transgender women should be considered for roles written for women and that transgender men should be considered for roles written for men. Although the most actors are open-minded towards their LGBT fellow actors, especially the dream factory’s persons in response are those who aren’t always tolerant towards gay and transsexual people.

* M.V. Lee Badgett, Jody L. Herman: ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Diversity in Entertainment: Experiences and Perspectives of SAG-AFTRA’

 

Siesta for a start

The Teddy found himself between the years after all the family dinners with a serious case of siesta urgency. Only to start the first day of the new year with a hangover, oh, what do I say, Hangover III.

Cameron Diaz GIF

But now he is on the jump and ready to start into the film festival with refilled energy reserves! And energy it will need, also in this year. Because once again more than 40 movies with queer content will be screened at the Berlinale while several cultural events take place – and for sure the best parties of the festival cannot be left out! All information about the movies, the parties and the fiestas will be found on the Teddy homepage, while on this blog recent news and the TEDDY-Today pages will be published.

We wish all of you a lot of fun on our webpages and hope that siesta and hangover will be overcome until the start of the festival!