The Second Glance: Women | Angelika Müller

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.

The Frauentreff Olga is a drop-in and counselling centre for drug-using women, trans women, and sex workers that is located on Kurfürstenstraße. Basic care like laundry, showers, a place to sleep, and a warm meal is as much a part of its offerings as medical assistance and drug, legal, and social counselling in a number of clients’ native languages. Angelika Müller has worked here as a nurse for 22 years. She first began her education as a physician’s assistant at the age of 15, and immediately after obtaining this qualification trained as a registered nurse at the German Red Cross, where she worked for several years as an intensive care nurse. After having lived for more than ten years in Greece, she has worked since then as a nurse at Frauentreff Olga.