The TEDDY AWARD Ceremony 2025 will introduce you to outstanding artists whose music and performances will celebrate the diversity and creativity of the queer art scene.

Ebow

With four albums to her name, Ebow has long since established herself as one of the most important voices in German rap and has also delivered one or two anthems for the naturally political among the millennials and Gen Zs. “She writes politically correct and grammatically incorrect lyrics about contempt for women in her scene and contempt for foreigners in her country”, as the ZEIT once put it. On her album “FC CHAYA”, which will be released on September 27, she focuses entirely on the LGBTQIA+ community and delivers queer love songs that have never been heard before in Germany. The sound alternates between indie rock influences, RnB and the cloud rap aesthetic of Y2K. In turbulent times, she probably wants to tell us, no message is more important than love itself.

Jade Pearl Baker & The Pearls

Jade Pearl Baker & The Pearls sing an anthem to Berlin’s drag culture.

Jade Pearl Baker, “Berlin’s most exciting drag voice”, is the star of the queer Berlin revue DRAG.GLAM.BERLIN. at Berlin’s BKA Theater together with her three “Pearls”. In 2017, she caused a nationwide sensation with her goosebump-inducing performances on the Pro7 show The Voice of Germany. In recent years, she has impressed in a wide variety of stage productions, including as one of the protagonists in Bastian Kraft’s play Ugly Ducklings, which has been celebrated far beyond the queer community since 2019.

Jade Pearl Baker, whose drag career began at the BKA Theater, is now celebrating great success there with DRAG.GLAM.BERLIN. in her first full-length show. She is supported in her dancing and singing by three brilliant drag colleagues, the “Pearls”. Her first single, which she will present at the Teddy Award, also comes from this revue:

“Celebrate the Queens” is a party anthem with political aspirations. The song celebrates Berlin’s legendary drag culture, but is also a warning. 

Jade Pearl Baker:“Berlin drags, no matter what they called themselves, have changed our society and continue to do so today. But the wind is getting rougher again for queer people – we can feel that in Berlin too. The reactionary forces that are attacking liberal societies worldwide have chosen drag queens as a target for their fight. We have to fight back against this, we all have to protect our drag culture together. And the best way to do that is by celebrating it.”

“Celebrate the Queens” was written by Johannes Kram and Florian Ludewig, who are also the authors of the long-running operetta for two gay tenors, which also premiered at the BKA Theater. DRAG.GLAM.BERLIN. is back on the program there from 4 June.