Events in June 2010
Press Invitation
Press Release, Mon 17 May 2010
We cordially invite you to these cultural events in June:
Program surrounding the Special Exhibition
"Heroes, Freaks and, Super-Rabbis"
The Great Comic Quiz
A Cooperation with zittyBerlin
Forty questions and great opportunities for comic connoisseurs and readers with a sound smattering of knowledge. Anyone who knows the color of Superman’s cloak and that Didi Glitz doesn’t care a fig whether her Vodkatini is shaken or stirred should be here. In four rounds, simple and obscure riddles of the comic world are tackled. The themes range from the old classics through the antiheroes of the underground to the movie versions of today, from Yellow Kid to Bart Simpson. Groups of up to six people can take part. Drinks are available at the bar and the quiz begins at 8 pm. Aside from the glory and honor they will bask in, the evening’s winners will also be awarded prizes.
When: 2 June 2010, 7.30 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard on ground level and Museum Garden
Admission free. Groups can register at info@jmberlin.de
Monday Movies
Comic Book Confidential
Documentary, USA 1988, duration 85 mins, directed by Ron Mann (original English version)
When: 7 June 2010, 7.30 pm
Waltz with Bashir
Introduced by Margret Kampmeyer, exhibition project head
Documentary animation film, IL/D/F 2008, duration 87 mins, directed by Ari Folman, PG-12 rating
When: 14 June 2010, 7.30 pm
Crumb
Documentary, USA 1994, duration 119 mins, directed by Terry Zwigoff (original English version)
When: 21 June 2010, 7.30 pm
American Splendor
Biographical, animated film, USA 2003, duration 96 mins, directed by Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
When: 28 June 2010, 7.30 pm
For all Monday Movies:
Admission free. Admission only with seat ticket available at the cash desk.
Where: Old Building, first level, Education Room
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Cultural Summer Programm
Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra
Launch the Cultural Summer Program
The Jewish Museum Berlin celebrates the 100th birthday of the band leader, clarinetist, and writer Artie Shaw. Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra pay homage to the best-known jazz musician and popular protagonist of swing. Dan Levinson, the American clarinetist is the star of the concert. The concert program "Begin The Beguine" features a new singer: Iris Romen from Holland brings "Any Old Time" sung way back then by Billy Holiday back to the stage.
When: 12 June 2010, 6 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard, ground level
Admission: 30 €, reduced rate 25 euros
Coco Schumann Quartet
Music is his great passion – jazz and swing. Coco Schumann takes listeners on a journey through the heydey of traditional swing with wonderful arrangements and classics. Coco Schumann's life has been inextricably bound with music: He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp by making music for the guards. In his own words, he played for his life.
When: 16 June 2010, 8 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard, ground level
Admission: 15 €, reduced rate 10 euros
Jazz in the Garden: Club Boogaloo
Club Boogaloo. The name is the program – modern organ jazz with groove as its top priority. The range spans from swing and bebop rhythms to shuffle, funk, and boogaloo with the addition of blues elements and the unmistakably warm sound of the Hammond B 3. Sometimes virtuoso, sometimes cool, sometimes instrumental, sometimes with vocals, but always bursting with energy.
Andreas Kissenbeck (Hammond organ), Peter Weniger (saxophone), Torsten Goods (guitar, vocals), Tobias Backhaus (drums)
Picnic baskets from Liebermann’s Restaurant can be ordered on tel. +49 (0)30 25939 760 with at least 24 hrs advance notice.
When: 27 June 2010, 11 am to 1 pm
Where: Museum Garden (Glass Courtyard in the event of bad weather)
Admission: free
Further Cultural Events
Der jüdische Friedhof Weißensee (The Jewish Cemetery Weissensee)
Momente der Geschichte (Moments of History)
Book Presentation with the Author Britta Wauer and the Photographer Amélie Losier
The Jewish cemetery in Berlin Weissensee is one of the loveliest and largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Right up to the present day, it links people and fates from all over the world. A collection of photographs and stories past and present of a fascinating place, this book provides unique insight into Jewish life in Germany from 1880 to the present day.
Britta Wauer and Amélie Losier present the book with its stories and pictures. Introduced by Hermann Simon, director of the Centrum Judaicum Berlin.
When: 8 June 2010, 7 pm
Where: Old Building, ground level, Auditorium
Admission: free
"Divine Musical Art!" – Workshop Concerts
A Brief Liturgical History of Heavenly Court Music: The Kol Nidre
A great mystery of religion: When a prayer of repentance is teeming with legal terms but inspires the best-loved sacral music, it must be due to an unquenchable longing for forgiveness. The reconciliation themes of Jom Kippur culminate in Kol Nidre. The romantic Max Bruch composed – as did later John Zorn and the Electric Prunes among others – his own personal Kol Nidre, and the world has since believed him to be Jewish. In the liturgy series of their workshop concert discussions, Thomas Lackmann and Philipp Olivier Schätze explore the synagogal tradition accompanied by students from the Hanns Eisler Music Academy on the piano, violin, and clarinet.
When: 10 June 2010, 7 pm
Where: Glass Courtyard on ground level
Admission: 10 €, reduced rate 7 euros
