The Second Glance: Women | Anastasia Biefang

Film

“Women” is the second integrated exhibition in the series The Second Glance. The show analyses the traditional gender roles and challenges the functions ascribed to women in society – for example, as goddesses, heroines, prostitutes, saints, queens, academics – and on the role of women in society. In six themed paths featuring 62 objects dating from the 4th to the 18th century, these women are situated within their own historical contexts and also discussed through the critical lens of the 21st century.

Anastasia Biefang was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1974 and has been an officer in the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) since 1994. She studied education, served in various leadership and staff assignments, completed the General Staff Course of the Bundeswehr and served as an aide in the Federal Ministry of Defence. She became the first openly transgender battalion commander in the German armed forces in 2017. She lives in Berlin and is currently division head in the Cyberspace and Information Space Command in Bonn. During her time of service she was deployed to Afghanistan twice. The activist is engaged in a volunteer capacity as the Deputy Chair of QueerBw and champions LGBTIQ* rights. Since 2020 she has been writing the column "The Trans Perspective" for the LGBTIQ* magazine MANNSCHAFT.