Weird, shrill, beautifully unattractive

The Tiger Lillies perform a mixture of vaudeville, cabaret, punk and gypsy music. They are definitely quirky in their costumes and masks and in their choice of instrumentation. The provocative lyrics leave out no disreputable topic. And as if that wasn't enough, the Tiger Lillies always go one better by means of macabre exaggeration and in a comedic-tragic style. You have to have experienced it.

One could think that the British, and above all the Monty Pythons, invented wry humour. Be that as it may, British humour and the essence of the Monty Pythons also works in a German version, as a great ensemble performs wonderfully!

Hanspeter Müller Drossaart dedicates his scenic-dialogical and polyphonic narrative to his grandfather, the "Bergbaschis Sepp". It is based on a few existing facts about the grandfather's person, which have been fictionalised. The name "Ggrell!" unites contents such as the scree fields of human existence and the garish, shrill and stirring of the material.

The Queer Poetry Slam Zurich is rainbow-coloured. Experienced poetry slammers as well as queer (e)reinsteiger*innen perform their self-penned texts. Disguises and aids are allowed - it's all right to be shrill! In the end, the audience decides whether they like it or not.

For what reasons is one building placed under heritage protection and another demolished? What is beautiful and what is ugly? This is in the eye of the beholder. The exhibition is a fun way to think about "beautiful building" and to engage with our built environment and different attitudes to it

about our built environment and different attitudes to it. It conveys interesting facts about the protection of historical monuments and invites visitors to form their own opinion and take a stand.

Probably no other building is able to increase the value of its objects so effectively simply by being called a museum. At the latest since the interventions of institutional critique, the museum is no longer just a place of beauty and spectacle, but stands in a problematic context. The exhibition "unschöne Museen" (unattractive museums) presents a series of works that illustrate the reversal of the museum from a place of beauty to a place of unattractiveness, reveal the museum's dependency relationships and speculate on its imminent redefinition.

Sie sind unvollkommene Gestalten und Narren in clowneskem Wahnsinn vereint. Sie kritisieren, prangern an, lachen und singen und machen ein Spektakel aus ihrem Makel. Sie sind wunderbar hässlich und zärtlich verrucht. Subtil albern und tiefgründig. Eine theatralische Tragikomödie mit Live-Musik und Tanz.

Marilyn Monroe war die Hollywood-Göttin schlechthin: von überirdischer, sinnlicher Schönheit und mit kindlich-naiver Ausstrahlung. Der Film «Niagara» zeigt die verführerische Kraft der Schönheit von Marilyn Monroe und die innere, fiese Hässlichkeit der amoralischen, zerstörerischen Figur Rose, die mit ihrem Geliebten die Ermordung ihres vom Koreakrieg traumatisierten Ehemanns plant.