RundfunkchorLounge 25/26 »The Other Half of Olympus«

Tara-Louise Wittwer, also known as »wastarasagt,« is a cultural studies scholar, author, SPIEGEL columnist, and content creator based in Berlin. On her social media platforms, she engages with feminist topics, focusing in particular on how pop culture and media shape our self-image. She discusses internalized misogyny and the ongoing reproduction of traditional gender roles. With her successful TikTok format »TikToxic,« she analyzes and exposes misogynistic content online. With her books »Sorry, aber…« (Sorry, but…) and »Nemesis’ Töchter,« (Nemesis’ Töchter) both of which reached #1 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list, she has also recently established herself as a successful author. Her last three bestselling books were accompanied by sold-out tours across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Katharina Wesselmann is a Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Potsdam. After studying Greek and Latin philology as well as art history in Tübingen, Cologne, and Basel, she first completed Swiss teacher training (2008) while working on her doctoral dissertation on »Mythical Narrative Structures in Herodotus’ Histories« (2010). While teaching Greek and Latin at various schools in Basel, she completed her habilitation as part of the Basel Iliad Commentary project with a contribution on Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad (2018). In 2019, she accepted a professorship in the didactics of classical languages at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), and in 2023 she moved to the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on Greek historiography and epic, as well as gender studies, the didactics of classical languages, and the history and social connotations of the subjects Latin and Greek.

Tessniem Kadiri, born in Germany’s Ruhr region to Moroccan immigrant parents, began her career in journalism as a teenager. Today, she works as a reporter and presenter for the renowned ARD programmes Weltspiegel and neuneinhalb, as well as an author and host for the WDR Newsroom. She also presents the international FUNK format ATLAS, which won the 2025 Grimme Award. Beyond broadcasting, she writes articles and columns and leads workshops. In 2024, medium magazin named her one of Germany’s top 30 under 30 journalists.

The concert will be recorded by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and broadcast on 9 July 2026 at 8 pm.