Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces. Otherness

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.