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The Drag Queen Race
Ephraim Meister alias Effi Mer Delamaskis and Leon Schneider alias Klaudia are the punks among the Swiss drag queens. Both love provocation. While Klaudia plays the naive dummy, the art student Effi is an intellectual artist. The two met at the 2015 Heaven Drag Race, a "beauty" contest for Drag Queens in Zurich, Switzerland. Klaudia installed a toilet on stage during her playback performance for Jane County's song "Toilet Love" and threw chocolate mousse around her, Effi threw bandages soaked in red paint into the audience and performed Nina Hagen's song "Unbeschreiblich weiblich". The drag community was shocked by the two performances . Effi and Klaudia, who did not know each other before, connected right away and became friends. As part of the Heavens Drag Race 2016 on 24 September, the two went to perform at an All-Stars Show on the stage of the Zurich Theater Neumarkt once again. Klaudia dressed up as the Pokemon character Jessie, Effi appeared as a mix between Alice Cooper, Jack Sparrow and Nina Hagen and performed a song of her drag-idol Alaska Thunderfuck. The audience and thé other drag queens found the performance at best a bit weird. The title "Miss Heaven 2016" went to Odette Hella Grand, a perfectly classic Drag Queen. Photographs assigned by "Die Zeit".
