Events in October 2010
Press Invitation
Press Release, Thu 16 Sep 2010
We cordially invite you to these cultural events in October:
Program surrounding the special exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers, and the War"
On the Doorstep
A Bus Tour to Places of Forced Labor in Berlin
Over half a million people were brought to Berlin to perform forced labor during the course of World War II. They worked for the arms industry and the state railway, for builders, in churches, hospitals, and private homes. The search for traces leads to forgotten camps and factories, but also new signs of remembrance. The tour ends at the Documentation Center on Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide, the last preserved camp in Berlin that can be visited.
When: 3 October and 30 October 2010, 11 am
Meeting point: Jewish Museum Berlin, Main entrance
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: 12 €, reduced rate 10 euros
Bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 259 93 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
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Forced Labor in Europe – Forced Labor in Berlin
Panel Discussion
Forced labor during the Nazi era was neighborhood crime: Passers-by in Berlin encountered forced laborers in Kreuzberg at Lindenstrasse 28 where one of the approximately 3,000 camps in the city was located. Up to 60 % of the Berlin AEG workforce were forced laborers, recognizable by badges on their clothes. However, concrete facts and places of remembrance are not commonly known.
The historians Christine Glauning, Cord Pagenstecher, and Jens-Christian Wagner talk about historical facts and places of forced labor during the Nazi era. They present recently discovered photographic material and tackle the question of how this societal crime and the fates of the forced laborers are remembered.
In cooperation with the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"
When: 4 October 2010, 6 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: free
Cultural Program
Divine Musical Art! – Long Night of the Nibelung:
The Jewish and Their Wagner
Concert Workshop Talks
Rejection or adoration? Richard Wagner demonizes "Jewish" music and pilfers tunes from Jews, many of whom pay homage to his Germanic savior kitsch. In the gaga operetta "Die lustigen Nibelungen" (The merry Nibelung), Jewish parodists make fun of Wagner’s world. In the first Wagner biopic (1913), a Jew plays Wagner’s lover. Thomas Mann’s brother-in-law of Jewish origin composes chamber music on the "Tristan" theme. Wagner performances are still considered an insult in Israel. Thomas Lackmann discusses this strange Jewish-German story of love and hate with the journalist Christine Lemke-Matwey accompanied by "Hanns Eisler" students, Michael Halfmann’s Schellack documents and historical film material.
When: 9 October 2010, 7 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard, ground level
Duration: 4 hours with 2 breaks
Admission: 15 €, reduced rate 10 euros
Bookings (for non-journalists) on tel. +49 (0)30 259 93 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
Ruth Klüger: "Was Frauen schreiben" (What women write)
Book Presentation
"Frauen lesen anders" (Women read differently) claims the author Ruth Klüger in her book of the same name. The esteemed literary scholar and feminist discovers with much wit and calm irony that women are always reading books by men, but that works by Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf or Jane Bowles are not amongst most men’s favorite books. In her new book "Was Frauen schreiben" (What women write) she examines the question of whether women also write differently. Do they look at the world through spectacles tinted a different shade? She looks for answers in works by authors as different as Herta Müller and Nadine Gordimer, Erika Mann and J. K. Rowling, Slavenka Drakulic, Doris Dörrie, Margaret Atwood and many more. Ruth Klüger’s predominant theme is literature from a female perspective.
Organized in cooperation with the Literaturhandlung
When: 11 October 2010, 7.30 pm
Where: Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: 9 €, reduced rate 7 euros
Bookings (for non-journalists) at the Literaturhandlung on tel. +49 (0)30 8824 250
