Beautiful Christmas: Star photographer GABO photographed the new Christmas campaign for DOUGLAS. In front of the camera stood actress Valerie Stoll, who is also advocating politically for the queer community at the moment.

The actress, who lives in Berlin, just made an appearance in the ARD series ‘Eldorado KaDeWe’. It was filmed in June, 2021, in Budapest when the Hungarian ruling party Fidesz passed legislature that prohibits sharing content depicting homosexuality with minors. The ARD miniseries ‘Eldorado KaDeWe – Our Time Is Now’ deals with the topic of queer life of Berlin’s subculture around 1920. This simultaneously carefree film bubble and reactionary socio-political moment was documented by the two leading actresses Lia von Blarer and Valerie Stoll. In their recently published book entitled ‘Hurry Up And Wait’ (Kettler Publishing), the two actresses juxtapose queer fiction and queer reality with the help of photographs and texts.

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