Queer Things Preview: “We had such a laugh”

This documentary tells the story of entertainment television in the 1990s and early 2000s from a woman’s perspective for the first time. Maren Kroymann, Hella von Sinnen, Bettina Böttinger, Gaby Köster and Esther Schweins look back on their work and a time when women on television were primarily seen as mere accessories, used for comic effect, and when female humour was regarded as a ratings killer. An entire generation was thus socialised primarily by male entertainers – through *Wetten, dass…?*, the *Harald Schmidt Show* and, later, *TV total*. How did this era shape us? And what do humour, wit and entertainment have to do with power and equality? This film is a journey back in time to the laughs of the 90s and 00s. “How we laughed” – or perhaps not?