Women’s Meeting of the German Women’s Emancipation Groups
February 10 – 11, 1973
Apart from hosting exhibitions, the Kunstverein building in the beginning of the 70s is continuously used by many different groups as, among other things, a discussion and meeting-place in advance of protests, including those against § 218. “The women’s movement’s demonstrations at Odeonsplatz were organized and prepared here in the Kunstverein - they dressed up here, put on make-up here, and went out to Odeonsplatz from here and attacked and provoked Cardinal Döpfner and the church and, so to speak, carried women’s political discourse into the public sphere. The first German women’s congress took place here in the Kunstverein.” The Kunstverein was “not a motor, but a platform”, reports then-director Haimo Liebich in an interview about the time. The women‘s meeting on fundamental strategic issues was novel in terms of the spectrum and number of women represented. In the background, one can see pictures from the soccer exhibition about F.C. Bayern that took place at the same time.
Fig.: Women’s Meeting of the German Women’s Emancipation Groups, Kunstverein München, 1973. Photo: Margarete von Diringshofen. Courtesy City Archive Munich (FS-NL-DIR-10).