In June 2021, Hungary's ruling Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orbán,
passed a law prohibiting the presentation of homosexuality to minors.
This measure represents an attempt to make "queerness" invisible in the
Hungarian public life. At the same time, the German mini-series KaDeWe - Our
Time Is Now was filmed in Budapest. It depicts, among other things, the life
homosexuality of the Berlin subculture around 1920. While they were living the
almost surreal simultaneity of a light cinematic bubble and a
retrograde socio-political moment, the two main actresses, Lia von Blarer
and Valerie Stoll, wanted to counter this political state of affairs with a voice
artistic and activist. In their book Hurry Up and Wait, the two actresses
juxtapose queer fiction with queer reality through photographs and
texts. Their analog photographs taken during the filming of the
series allow us to glimpse the exuberant and agitated world of filmmaking
of films, while people from the Hungarian gay community
give an insight into their daily lives through poems. of their lives
daily through poems, short stories and political speeches. They
tell us about their attempts to regain the freedoms and autonomy that
have been taken away from them by the current government.
