She had already learned many craft skills, such as mixing paints or woodworking, in art high school. She was now able to put these skills to good use in her classes at the university. Especially Prof. Zaiser was a role model for her during this time. In dealing with the students' work, the professor was almost brutal in her corrections. The students then sometimes wished that it should rather hit someone else and asked themselves, "Why me?". Sometimes there was not much left of the original, but Prof. Zaiser always managed to pick up each student where it was necessary to improve them. She got everything out of the students and for that Mauga Houba-Hausherr is full of praise: "Grandiose! She was formative and an insane role model and kind of like a mother to me, too." Among other things, Mauga Houba-Hausherr attended the professor's portrait class until the end of her studies, not because she had to, but because it was just so interesting. The professor gave her orders for portraits and advised her from the beginning not to sell herself short, but to negotiate a good price. And from the initial doubt and the question whether she could do it at all, the young painter developed pride in her own work. The students' works were presented in various exhibitions that the students themselves developed and organized. Exciting formats such as the "Südgang", "Kultur im Süden", "Design im Zelt" or the "Designer-Saturday" were created during this time through the collaboration of the students and were ahead of their time. But also the celebration and the friendship did not come too briefly in this time and Mauga Houba-Hausherr is pleased that not only the friendships of that time hold until today, but also she is still welcome in the "Blauen Engel" (Blue Angel).

Mauga Houba-Hausherr, who "got stuck" in Krefeld after her studies, is active as an artist and is represented nationally and internationally. Her works can be found not only in Krefeld, but also in Berlin, in Venlo and Venice, in galleries in Norway and Poland and currently in exhibitions, for example, in the Upper Silesian Museum in Ratingen, the Kunstforum in Düsseldorf or the Women's Museum in Bonn (more at www.mauga.de).

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