sintering is present as spherical particles powder lead titanate zirconate pzt consisting in particular of a co doped material can be added to the inner electrodes as an electrically non conductive material in a proportion by weight of up to a maximum of 30 preferably 5 to 15 in addition to the electrically non conductive material it is also possible to add to the material of the inner electrodes a metal alloy and or a metal oxide mixture in a proportion of no more than 30 by weight preferably less than 10 particularly preferably less than 5 by weight the proportion of the two added substances can thus amount in total to 60 by weight and the substances can be mixed together in any composition this metal alloy and or metal oxide mixture can however also replace the proportion of the electrically non conductive material noble metal with the exception of silver can be used as the metal alloy and or metal oxide mixture the metal alloy and or metal oxide mixture can contain palladium or platinum in order to produce a multi layer element in accordance with the invention use is made of a calcined pzt material for example in accordance with the composition 0 98pb zr.