GLAMOUR - The risk of staging yourself artfully

But that's not all. Style icon Britt Kanja will be joining the author on stage at the Orangerie to make the sparkling side of life shine even brighter.


Glamour is created where beauty and elegance are staged in public and reflected in the admiring glances of the audience. Opulent and yet precarious, completely present and yet barely approachable, the glamorous appearance is created especially for the moment and yet lasts forever.

Glamour had its heyday in the first half of the 20th century, when the aura of screen stars was able to cast a spell over cinema audiences. It needs the limelight, requires stubbornness and a willingness to take risks, is a lavish desire for self-dramatisation. Glamour unfolds its effect almost like a shock, takes your breath away, leaves you speechless. Those who encounter it leave the lowlands of everyday life.

Although today we are almost exclusively surrounded by aesthetic dreariness in public spaces, the desire for such glamorous appearances seems to be tentatively reviving. In any case, Ute Cohen recognises encouraging signs in our present that glamour has not lost its compelling radiance.


Date: Thursday 03.04.2025

Venue: Orangery at Charlottenburg Palace, Spandauer Damm 22, 14059 Berlin

Admission: 6.30 pm
Start: 7.30 pm
Tickets & info: #cohensclub
VVK 13 € + VVK fee
Box office 15 €
Free choice of seats.

(Reading: German)