The Second Glance: Women | Heidi Kasten

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.

Heidi Kasten was born in 1966 in East Berlin and has a son. For many years, she worked as a train driver in the Berlin subway system (U-Bahn). She then started her own business renting charter boats, later working as the office manager at a large insurance company and then in the office of an auto repair shop. In 2018, Heidi Kasten began working as a security employee at the Bode Museum, and since 2019 she has been its Head of Security, responsible for a staff of 40.