Cultural Summer Program 2017

Inspired by the current exhibition Cherchez la femme. Wig, Burqa, Wimple, the cultural summer program 2017 was devoted to the resolute women of the Jewish past and present. Molly Antopol from the US enriched our literary program – together with actress Katharina Marie Schubert, the author read and talked about the women who inspire her stories, about politics, privacy, and the Cold War. At the big summer party, music and comedy, life-sized puppets, handicraft stations, rippling fountains, and street food specialties from pancakes to ice cream awaited visitors great and small.

As every year, our music lovers did not miss out – or have you ever heard Fado in Yiddish? The Parisian singer Noëmi Waysfeld with her congenial trio Blik will presented a transcultural musical treat. Our Jazz in the Garden open-air concerts have become a fixed date in Berlin’s cultural calendar. This year’s musical journey of popular matinees took us from Lisbon via Paris and Tel Aviv to New York, from jazz standards of the grandes dames of Broadway with the Olivier Hutman Trio & Stephy Haik to the minimalist sounds of the pianist Julie Sassoon to the cellist ILLAY with her experimental mélange between Orient and Occident.

Be it with an ice-cooled lemonade in a deck chair or enjoying a picnic in the shade of the plane tree grove – you got to know the museum and its spacious garden from its sunny side!

Picnic baskets

The museum café Schmus offers culinary accompaniment to the cultural summer events with fresh and light specialties. Picnic baskets are available especially for the jazz matinees and can be preordered by phone on +49 (0)30 25 79 67 51 or via email: cafe-jmb@koflerkompanie.com.