It's part of the annual festival season like long toilet lines, bad weather, warm canned beer, handbread and unwashed hair: The mostly futile search for female artists in the line-up of major German and international festivals. Once again this year, the festival veterans made negative headlines with an extremely male-dominated line-up and a proportion of women often below 10 percent. The musicians are thus denied visibility — because: they exist! Women can be role models for others, and girls see that they can be rock stars.
What began in mid-July 2021 on the Carolin Kebekus Show im Erste as a reaction to the lack of representation of women in the music industry became an open-air festival with an exclusively female line-up with the “DCKS Festival” on June 6, 2022 at Cologne's Tanzbrunnen. Artists such as LEA, Mine, Luna, the No Angels, musical newcomers such as Annie Chops and, of course, Carolin Kebekus have shown that women can (be) headliners.
In addition to the music program on the main stage, well-known artists from the music and entertainment industry were discussed on another stage about the issue of underrepresentation of women, but also about solutions.

To be seen on: ARD media library

Production: btf GmbH
Color grading: Fridolin Körner

Length: 60 min