Display device with at least one electrically controllable display element, comprising: - a first fluid comprising a non-polar fraction and at least one other fluid comprising an electrically conducting or polar fraction, wherein the first and the at least one other fluid are spatially separate from one another and wherein the fractions (6, 7) do not mix with one another, - a plurality of fluidically closed volumes, each of which contains precisely one of the other fluids comprising an electrically conducting or polar fraction, and a first fluid comprising a non-polar fraction and is subdivided into a first and at least one second subvolume (4, 5) which are fluidically connected to one another, of which the first subvolume is configured so that it is visible and flat, wherein the non-polar fraction is held in the second subvolume when the electrically conducting or polar fraction is located in the first subvolume, and vice versa, wherein the visible flat subvolumes are arranged stacked on one another along their shortest dimension, - at least one voltage source which is in contact with an electrode array and adapted to selectively intersperse at least one of the visible subvolumes with an electric field and thus to vary the surface tension of the polar fluid fraction; wherein the dimensions of the flat visible subvolumes are selected in such a manner that the respective electrically conducting or polar fluid fraction in the deenergized state of the respective electrode array is forced into the respective second subvolume due to the Young-Laplace pressure; and wherein the second subvolumes pass through the flat visible subvolumes which are arranged, in the viewing direction onto the display element, under the flat visible subvolume with which the respective second subvolume is associated, characterized in that the second subvolume which is associated, in the viewing direction onto the display element, with the uppermost first subvolume is configured as a part configured around the symmetry point of the uppermost first subvolume, wherein at least another of the fluidically closed volumes is subdivided into a lower-lying flat visible subvolume and at least two second subvolumes which are associated in a decentralized manner with the symmetry point. - a first fluid comprising a non-polar fraction and at least one other fluid comprising an electrically conducting or polar fraction, wherein the first and the at least one other fluid are spatially separate from one another and wherein the fractions (6, 7) do not mix with one another, - a plurality of fluidically closed volumes, each of which contains precisely one of the other fluids comprising an electrically conducting or polar fraction, and a first fluid comprising a non-polar fraction and is subdivided into a first and at least one second subvolume (4, 5) which are fluidically connected to one another, of which the first subvolume is configured so that it is visible and flat, wherein the non-polar fraction is held in the second subvolume when the electrically conducting or polar fraction is located in the first subvolume, and vice versa, wherein the visible flat subvolumes are arranged stacked on one another along their shortest dimension, - at least one voltage source which is in contact with an electrode array and adapted to selectively intersperse at least one of the visible subvolumes with an electric field and thus to vary the surface tension of the polar fluid fraction;