WET – Playground For Reading Pleasure

WET – Playground For Reading Pleasure

WET is an evening centered on queer perspectives. WET brings together artists, projects, and participatory formats from Munich. WET is raw, tender, radical. Here, people play, read, sing, dance, drink, and celebrate. In a DYKE*SPACE for everyone who has been waiting so long for this.

DYKES* from and in Munich, gather! WET is a space for lesbians, trans women and trans men, transmasculine and transfeminine people, non-binary, agender, intersex, and cis women. Friends and allies are warmly welcome, as long as everyone treats each other with respect. Have fun!

In the second edition of WET, Anna Gesa-Raija Lappe meets author Clara Umbach and an undertaker. With the debut novel “Pizza Orlando,” we’ll explore the themes of friendship, sex, and transience this evening.

The main characters Clara and Nina from the novel “Pizza Orlando” have known each other since their youth, long before this story begins. When they meet again many years later as adult women, Nina is already suffering from the first symptoms of an incurable disease: Huntington’s. They fall in love and plunge into a whirlwind romance. An intense bond develops between Berlin and Hamburg, fueled by chat messages in which desire and vulnerability come to the fore, where the mundane coexists with the existential. While Nina struggles to build a shared future despite her limited time, Clara, as a single mother, fights for self-determination amid a daily life of childcare, studying, and paid work. How can they live this love—given the time they have left?

Clara Umbach and Anna Gesa Raija Lappe will read from “Pizza Orlando” and engage in a conversation—about queer friendship, desire, and mortality. At the heart of the evening is the question of what forms of care exist outside of heterosexual binary relationships: How can relationships be sustained beyond romantic exclusivity, claims of ownership, and fixed roles? What expectations do we place on friendships—and what on romantic relationships? Which expectations remain unspoken, and where do the roles begin to crumble? How do affinities of choice emerge, and how can they provide us with support in moments of illness, loss, and farewell?

A funeral director brings practical and existential experiences to the discussion and opens the space for concrete questions surrounding dying, saying goodbye, and end-of-life care. Who provides care when a person dies? And what does it mean to bear responsibility for one another?

Following the reading, we’ll gather together to create our final objects. What do we hold dear? What would we most like to hold in our hands in our final moments, or what would we take with us if the house were on fire? Together, we’ll seek a language for death and mortality—one that approaches this single reality that unites all of us with curiosity and tenderness: We will all die. On this evening, however, we want to live, love, and be there for one another.

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