Frederike Moormann
Places of Desire
Radioessay
Original Broadcast: 15. October 2023Repetition: 12. October 2025
SWR 2
The club, the bar, the archive, the sex shop, the park. Five episodes sketch out a fragmentary topology of places of desire. A queer, female* desire. In a city in the year 2022.
The places sketched out are both private safe spaces and places of public life. And all of these places have changed significantly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The inner and outer spaces of FLINTA* desire are connected by dreams. Of peace and intimacy, of orgies and excess, of attachment and detachment, disgust and gentle acceptance.
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By - Frederike Moormann
Music collaboration – Anne Munka
Voices - Hannah Schutsch, Newroz Çelik
Interviews - Joey Juschka, Kristine Schmidt, Birgit Bosold, Dagmar Nöldge, Laura Méritt, Polly VanLaaf, die Besucher*innen des Freudensalons, Mia Onacid, River, Daniel Stein, die Besucher*innen des Berlin Stripper’s Collective, Sil Romero, Heather Purcell
Mixing & Voice Recording - Alexander Brennecke
Production – Mareike Maage/ SWR2
Thanks - Laura Kansy, Newroz Çelik, Lefteris Krysalis, Jason Langheim, Henriette Theurich, Paul Hauptmeier