Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–6pm; Thu, 10am–9pm
Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
Today
Ongoing
Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
Upcoming
Overture – Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition, 15 July – 10 August 2025, 19:00
Ana Janevski: Looping, Relaying and Echoing. Three Curatorial Strategies
Lecture, 16 July 2025, 19:00
Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
Rabih Mroué: Shot/Counter Shot. Rethinking the Reverse
Lecture, 17 June 2025, 19:00
Adir Jan & Emrah Gökmen: On the Shores of the Munzur, on the Shores of the Murat
Concert, 12 June 2025, 20:00
Miloš Trakilović: Love Songs & War Machines
Lecture, 10 June 2025, 19:00
Anna Roberta Goetz: 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Not All Travellers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice
Lecture, 3 June 2025, 19:00
Jimmy Robert
Lecture, 27 May 2025, 19:00
Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem
Lecture (20.5.) Concert (21.5.), 20 – 21 May 2025
Julian Irlinger: Reanimation and Reconstruction
Lecture, 13 May 2025, 19:00
İmran Ayata & Bülent Kullukçu: Songs of Gastarbeiter
Music Lecture, 8 May 2025, 19:00
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa (Heaven Earth)
Screening (5.5.) Lecture (6.5.), 5 – 6 May 2025, 19:00
Helen Marten: Animal Hours
Lecture, 29 April 2025, 19:00
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Application, 10 April – 31 May 2025
Semester Break Spring 2025
Information, 14 February – 21 April 2025
Water Cooler Talks 2025
Event, 8 – 9 February 2025
Rundgang 2025
Exhibition, 7 – 9 February 2025, 10:00–20:00
Trisha Donnelly
Lecture, 30 January 2025, 19:00
Kerstin Brätsch: Parasite Painting
Lecture, 28 January 2025, 19:00
Emma Enderby: Curating in and out of Place
Lecture, 14 January 2025, 19:00

Thomas Meinecke: You Make Me Feel Mighty Real
This lecture will discuss both performatively and lyrically the idea of gender performance in pop music. You Make Me Feel Mighty Real was a major hit by the flaming Disco Queen Sylvester (formerly Cockettes), especially gaining resonance in the gay community. It was a central slogan of the disco movement, before this was killed off by Rock 1979 at a sport stadium under the motto Disco Sucks. And REALNESS is, of course, a queer high camp construct, which is awarded to participants in VOGUING competitions.
Thomas Meinecke is a German author, pop artist, musician and DJ. From 1978 to 1986 he was a co-editor and editor of the avant-garde magazine Mode & Verzweiflung. In the eighties he wrote columns for ZEIT. From 1986, he published stories and numerous novels, most recently the novel Selbst (Suhrkamp, 2016). Meinecke is also a musician and lyricist in the band Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle (FSK) as well as releasing records under his own name. He is also radio DJ in the program Zündfunk Nachtmix (BR 2) and regularly works as a club DJ. Since 2008, Meinecke has also been running a series of concerts under the title "Plattenspieler" at the Berlin Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).
Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.