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The “Hosen-Rocken-Picture-Show“We thought the Twenties were the times of cross-dressing, but we were mistaken! Before 1914, films were much more lively and free, wilder and more utopian than in the wildest years after. Mother and daughters roam around, smoking and dressed in stolen trousers, while the father slips into skirts and dances about the parlour. And while the Berlin police waggle their bottoms provocatively, Tilly and Sally escape at night in men’s clothing. The film historian Mariann Lewinsky Sträuli has compiled a collection of eye-opening and amusing short films from the early days of cinema and will present a sensational show, which will be accompanied on the piano by Ruth Bieri. |