Munich: Ladies Art Lunch - the fine art of networking!
Created: 09/21/2022, 17:27
By: Katja Kraft
The hosts: Sonja Lechner and Frank Matthias Kammel, Director General of the Bavarian National Museum.
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Art expert Sonja Lechner invited again to the Ladies Art Lunch.
This time women from all areas of society met in the Bavarian National Museum.
And enjoyed the high art of networking.
"Champagne makes you feel like every day is a Sunday," said Marlene Dietrich.
Then a slightly dodged "How true!" When art expert Sonja Lechner invites you to her Ladies Art Lunch, Wednesday tastes a bit sunnier.
And yet, at this edition of the popular meeting point for women from all walks of life, it's a bit as if someone had put a few drops of vermouth in the glass.
The sun is shining, it's Oktoberfest in the city again, it's already clear.
But then there is war in Europe, energy crisis, climate crisis, economic crisis.
Quite a lot of crises at once.
So: despair and duck your head?
Not with powerful women like those who are sitting together this afternoon in the restaurant of the Bavarian National Museum.
Antonella Forte-Wolf, for example,
Project management for art and culture sponsorship at Allianz.
She places her hopes in the promotion of young people.
Her magic word is art.
"Today, we have to give the next generation access to art and culture - because that's where values are conveyed, reflection is practiced, one learns to think creatively outside the box - and thus find solutions to problems affecting society as a whole."
At the Art Lunch in the Bavarian National Museum: Actress Ulrike Kriener.
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Creativity and exchange beyond one's own area of life, that's what Sonja Lechner also relies on.
For their keynote speech, the women, who take the invitation to network seriously and happily start talking to each other, interrupt their conversations for once.
And nod in confirmation when the hostess calls out to them that we really have to say goodbye to the idea of limitless growth.
But that doesn't have to mean falling into misery.
But that there can be a profit in the renunciation, if it is done with brains.
“We have the historic opportunity to accept the wake-up calls from the pandemic and war catastrophe and to set the course again.
From my point of view, this is only possible through interdisciplinarity, since all future issues are too complex to be clarified from just one perspective.
Girl power: "Madame" boss Petra Winter (left) and Stephanie von Pfuel.
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This is true in the macrocosm as well as in the microcosm.
Petra Winter, publisher of the magazine "Madame", encourages her fellow women to do what women rarely dare to do: to talk about their own successes and not always be modest.
In the museum, which some have taken for a castle, it is reminiscent of a saying by Queen Elizabeth II: "Never explain, never complain!"
Not the worst motto for a successful (professional) life.
Fully occupied tables in the museum restaurant: the ladies got into lively conversation.
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And because you can achieve more together, Sonja Lechner believes tirelessly in the power of networks.
And the power of art.
After lunch we go through the museum, where the guests experience guided tours of the Tilman Riemenschneider, ivory, porcelain and costume areas.
"I'm glad that so many women came here and not to the Wiesn," said one of the few gentlemen at lunchtime, Willi Bonke (Premium Cars Rosenheim) in greeting.
Women like Corry Müller-Vivil, Susanne Porsche or Felicitas von Lovenberg were happy to do it.
Because you know: At the Wiesn you can cheerfully forget the world.
If you don't just want to stimulate the liver, but also the mind, you come to the museum.
By the way, this applies to all seasons.
Countess Susanne von Moltke, Countess Stephanie Bruges-von Pfuel and Countess Charlotte von Oeynhausen.
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