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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.

The Berlinale is getting closer and closer. The films for Panorama and the competition are selected and we can expect many stars and starlets on the red carpet. And many great films and filmmakers as well, obviously. Here at the TEDDY office, we are also working hard to make the next Berlinale a great one. Right now we’re working on the TEDDY program magazine.

This year, we’ll have lots of great numbers with the dancers and the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin featured in the TEDDY Gala. The opening number is a piece from Jacques Offenbachs crazy opéra bouffe La Belle Hélène. We are looking forward to two great soloists.

Agnes Zwierko is a world-renowned mezzo-soprano, who has sung in Milan, London and Buenos Aires. She performs the Tangolita in piece from the iconic operetta Ball at the Savoy.

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The second soloist is Katharine Mehrling, who sang the lead in countless musicals. Berliners should especially know her name from the production of Cabaret at the Bar jeder Vernunft, where she performed the part of Sally Bowles more than 250 times. At the Gala she will perform the piece “Kangaroo-Fox” from Ball at the Savoy.

Foto @ Jim Rakete
Foto @ Jim Rakete

There are news from SchwuZ club as well: POP:SCH will perform live at the Closing Party! Many of the great SchwuZ DJs are there as well: Gloria Viagra & Pa$cha, Black Cracker & Friends and Disco Gessner & hintergrundrauschen will play many genres of music. We can hardly wait.

Picture © Marie Gutbub
Picture © Marie Gutbub

For everyone who wants to read more, Audrey has written a piece about the perfect work of art that is Udo Kier and Sebastian about his love for Tocotronic and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. More information about the artists performing at the TEDDY AWARD Gala can be found here.

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!

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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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
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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
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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.

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

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