Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces. Otherness
Program Accompanying the Exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES (video recording available, in German with English subtitles)
From the photographic essay ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES by Frédéric Brenner; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with the support of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
The second event in the “Hevrutah” (“Friendship”) series is on the topic of “otherness.” Using poems and other short pieces, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Benyamin Reich, Irene Runge, and Adam Joachim Goldmann, together with participants from the audience, will discuss how a self-perceived or an externally determined, ascribed otherness shapes a society’s view of that society, and whether this view necessitates a particular kind of responsibility. The “Hevrutah” will be moderated by Daniel Schönpflug.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording from 9 Dec 2021, in German with English subtitles; Jewish Museum Berlin 2021
At the center of the program accompanying Frédéric Brenner’s exhibition is the practice of “Hevrutah” (“friendship”), a gathering for the purpose of shared learning. We invite the exhibition’s cast and the public to come together over a text, to read it and discuss it.
Panelists
- Liad Hussein Kantorowicz is a political performance artist and activist from Palestine-Israel.
- Benyamin Reich is an art photographer. He was born into an ultra-orthodox Jewish family in Israel, and studied at ENSBA - Paris (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts) and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Reich has lived in Berlin since 2009.
- Irene Runge is a writer, commentator, and doctor of sociology. Born in New York to parents who were émigrés from Germany, she arrived in East Berlin in 1949 and grew up in the GDR. In 1980s East Berlin, Runge founded the initiative "Wir für uns – Juden für Juden" (Us For Ourselves: Jews for Jews) within East Berlin's Jewish community. In 1989, she co-founded the independent Jüdischer Kulturverein Berlin (Berlin Jewish Cultural Association). She is long retired, but remains active as a writer.
- Adam Joachim Goldmann is a photographer and international cultural journalist, and writes for publications including the NY Times. He lives in Berlin, New York and Munich.
- Daniel Schönpflug is Professor of Modern History at the Free University Berlin and Academic Coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study) Berlin.
Exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: Features & Programs
- Exhibition Webpage
- Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 3 Sep 2021 to 24 Apr 2022
- Publications
- Frédéric Brenner: ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 2021, publication accompanying the exhibition
- Accompanying Events
- Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces: Invitation to learn together
- See also
- Frédéric Brenner, photographer
- Digital Content
- Without the Leaves, I Would Not Have Started: Essay by Frédéric Brenner on ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, 2021
- Staging Jewishness: Video recording of the artist talk with Frédéric Brenner, 2022
- ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits: Photos and interviews about Jewish life in Berlin, 2021/22
- Hevrutah on Memory/Place: Video recording, with Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner, 2021, in German with English subtitles
- Current page: Hevrutah on Otherness/Responsibility: Video recording, with Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Benyamin Reich, Irene Runge, and Adam Joachim Goldmann, 2021, in German with English subtitles
- Hevrutah on Homeland/Diaspora: Video recording, with Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, and Aviva Ronnefeld, 2022, in German with English subtitles
