Episode 2: Ageism
- BBB Staffel 2
Women and age - a contradiction? Women are not only generally less present in the media - women who seem to have passed a seemingly magical age limit anyway: they disappear from cinema, advertising, television and the public eye or only appear in certain role models. An older man in a relationship with a younger woman: normal - an older woman in a relationship with a younger man: scandal! What makes the narrative of youth so decisive for the public perception of women, and how can this be countered - in real life and in the media?
SheShePop is a predominantly female performance collective from Berlin. In their work, they often address current social and political issues, for which they also draw on their own biographies. SheShePop has been invited to numerous national and international festivals and is considered one of the best-known independent theater collectives in the German-speaking world. In fall 2020, they created the evening "Hexploitation", in which they dealt with the fear of the hag, the old woman and the witch. The performers naturally used their own ageing bodies for this. With them, they fight against the disappearance and loss of significance that women beyond the age of childbearing suffer as social subjects.