{"id":9702,"date":"2026-07-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovelab.berlin\/dreams\/jenseits-des-patriarchats\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:49:15","slug":"beyond-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"dream","link":"https:\/\/lovelab.berlin\/en\/dreams\/jenseits-des-patriarchats\/","title":{"rendered":"DREAM 4: Lust Beyond the Patriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ulli<\/figure>\n\n

When I filmed a portrait feature with Ulli Lust in 2013, she had just published her international comic bestseller \u201cToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u201d \u2014 a laconic, autobiographical coming-of-age story. In it, she recounts a journey through Italy she undertook as a 17-year-old punk in the 1980s together with a friend. \u201cWe were looking for adventure,\u201d Lust recalls. \u201cUnfortunately, we were also presented with the bill \u2014 in the form of rape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

At the time, she was working on \u201cHow I Tried to Be a Good Person\u201d (2017), a deeply reflective graphic novel about a love triangle shaped by sexual obsession, gender conflict, and intercultural tension. \u201cI started drawing erotic motifs when I was twenty-two, and I was terribly ashamed,\u201d Lust says. \u201cI threw the drawings in the trash and then burned them \u2014 just so no one would ever see them. Back then, I could never have imagined that one day I\u2019d lay all my dirt out in public.\u201d The book went on to become another major success and is now considered a landmark feminist graphic novel.<\/p>\n\n

With \u201cWoman as Human\u201d (2025), Ulli Lust presents a meticulously researched work of non-fiction comics in which she re-examines early human history and dismantles long-standing patriarchal myths. Drawing on archaeological and anthropological research, she demonstrates that many early societies were far more egalitarian than later historical narratives suggest. The book combines scholarly depth with a powerful visual language that places female figures and symbols at its center. As the first graphic novel ever to receive the German Non-Fiction Book Prize (Deutscher Sachbuchpreis), the work not only reshapes our understanding of the past but also articulates a compelling vision of a post-patriarchal future.<\/p>\n\n

The exhibition \u201cLust Beyond the Patriarchy\u201d ran at Lovelab Dreamspace until January 17, 2026, featuring signed prints, original works, and unique pieces from Ulli Lust\u2019s oeuvre. The neighboring bookshop Montag offered signed copies of her books.<\/p>\n\n

Tim Ra<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ulli Lust Retrospective \u2013 large-format prints and original works from her award-winning comics.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-9702","dream","type-dream","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t