Program Accompanying the Special Exhibition

Friday 18 October 2013, 6 pm

Something Important is Happening Here

Artist's Talk with Quintan Ana Wikswo
(in English)

The American artist Quintan Ana Wikswo will talk about her work on the "Sonderbau" (special block). In large installations mixing texts and pictures she addresses the disappearance of the camp brothel in the Dachau concentration camp, creating an individual form of remembrance for the group of sexually exploited women whose lot is often ignored by collective memory to this day.

Friday 18 October 2013, 6 pm
Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, first level
Admission: with the museum ticket

Tuesday 3 December 2013, 7 pm

Christmas and other Stories
and Methods of Recording Time/Calendars

Talk by Rabbi Daniel Katz

Christmas and Hanukkah have neither anything essential nor theological in common. Christians celebrate the consecration of a time (the birth of Jesus) and the Jews the consecration of a place (the Temple).

Rabbi Daniel Katz talks about consecrated days and consecrated people, about the ritual processes of festivals and how they have changed over time. He wonders how it would be if Christians celebrated Yom Kippur and if the birthday of other "celebrities" established our era – and turns time and again and not least back to the central question of what religion has in common with football.

Tuesday 3 December 2013, 7 pm
Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, second level, Great Hall
free admission