Protests against section 218 on Galeriestraße and Women’s meeting of German women’s emancipation groups at Kunstverein München
At the beginning of the nineteen-seventies, the premises of the Kunstverein were repeatedly used by various groups as a place for discussion and assembly, for example in the run-up to protests against section 218 of the German Criminal Code, which makes abortion a punishable offense: “The women’s movement’s demonstrations on Odeonsplatz were organized and planned here at the Kunstverein, they dressed up here, put on make-up here, and went out from here to Odeonsplatz where they attacked and provoked Cardinal Döpfner and the church and, so to speak, carried the women’s political discourse into the public sphere. The first German women’s congress took place here in the Kunstverein.” The Kunstverein was “not the motor, but a platform,” states Haimo Liebich, who directed the Kunstverein from 1971 to 1975. The women’s meeting on fundamental strategic questions was groundbreaking in terms of the range and numbers of those present. In the background, pictures from the concurrent exhibition about the football club F.C. Bayern can be seen.
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[1]Protests against section 218 on Galeriestraße
[2]Women’s meeting of German women’s emancipation groups at Kunstverein München