Elisabeth von Dücker

Her dissertation dealt with the painted oeuvre of the cartoonist Thomas Theodor Heine, one of the founders of the Munich magazine Simplicissimus.

As a research trainee at the Altona Museum, she designed an exhibition about the proletarian Hamburg district of Ottensen with the participation of local residents as an everyday history of a neighborhood.

Painters created a 1,000 square meter painting on the north facade of the so-called Fischmarktspeicher, a former granary, at Große Elbstraße 39.

Der Spiegel wrote: “The monumental work, crowned by a combative-looking welder, reminded scoffers of Socialist Realism.

[5] With the mural painter Hildegund Schuster and the social scientist Emilija Mitrovic (1953–2020) from the working group and in cooperation with the Museum für Arbeit, she developed the concept of the “FrauenFreiluftGalerie Hamburg” in 1994.

Sixteen murals were created along the hillside on the Altona Elbe bank on the way to Neumühlen, which tell stories about port-related women's work from 1900 to the present.

As part of the official opening of the Museum of Work on the site of the former rubber goods factory New-York Hamburger Gummi-Waaren Compagnie in Barmbeck in 1997, the 400 square meter building by Elisabeth von Dücker was opened on the second floor A separate permanent exhibition “Women and Men – Worlds of Work and Worlds of Images” was installed.

For the show and the accompanying catalog she conducted 30 interviews with people from the milieu and cooperated with advisory institutions and projects of the whore movement from Germany and Holland and Italy.

[8] Supported by the sociologists Beate Leopold and Christiane Howe, Elisabeth von Dücker set up twelve rooms, each of which provided information about an aspect of prostitution, such as “health”, “law and customs”, the “fight for respect”, “customer, guest, John”, “Drug Prostitution and Trafficking in Women”.