We’re delighted to invite you to our second appearance at PodFest Berlin!
Florian, Katy, and Susan will be presenting a mini-Dead Ladies Show at the podcast festival on Saturday, October 14th starting at 8:15pm (doors open 8pm) at Noisy Rooms, Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin (inside House of Music at RAW Gelände). Susan will reveal the writer and artist behind Miss Fury, and Katy will reprise the story of Germany’s first female airship pilot (auf Deutsch this time). See below for more information on the two ladies in question, who will, as always, be presented in a messy mixture of English and German.
Tickets are €12, and you get 23% off with our special promo code “DeadLadies23”! Each ticket covers the Dead Ladies Show plus a half-day pass to festival events on Saturday between 5-10:30pm, including workshops and panels, seminars, and other events! Please book in advance here.
You can also purchase day and weekend passes (23% off with our promo code, or even cheaper with a student discount), which will include our event on Saturday and everything else on offer! This is our last show of the year, and we’d love to see you there.
Can’t wait? Why not listen to our past shows as podcasts? Our latest episode comes direct from DLS NYC, as illustrator Nafisa Ferdous introduces us to Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death.
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JUNE TARPÉ MILLS created the first female comic-book action hero — Miss Fury, the secret identity of socialite Marla Drake. Mills’ fashionable crimefighter appeared 6 months before Wonder Woman, and won fans for her style, noir storylines, and bouts of self-doubt, although Miss Fury’s kinky costumes and proclivity for putting the ‘strip’ in comic strip got the series banned from several newspapers in the 1940s. Writer and artist June Mills created several other male action characters, and had her own alter ego, turning her middle name into a nom de plume, for a mysterious and possibly more masculine identity.
KÄTHE PAULUS was Germany’s first female airship pilot, a professional aerial acrobat, and the inventor of the folding parachute. On meeting a balloonist, she decided to learn how to pilot a hot-air balloon and perform parachute jumps. Having had his baby out of wedlock, she lost him in a ballooning accident and made a living for herself – and her mother, who she lived with throughout her life – flying balloons, airships, and planes, and jumping out of them, starting her own parachute production line during WWI. And yes, they have named a street at BER after her.
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