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Diffe­rent from the Start

Dis­cussion with Harry Raymon, Eyewit­ness to History (video recording available, in German)

Portrait of an elderly man (Harry Raymon) with gray hair and mustache, a film poster can be seen in the background.

Harry Raymon in front of the film poster for Regentropfen (Raindrops); STROUXedition, 26 Sep 2021

Harry Raymon was born in 1926 in Kirchberg, a town in the Hunsrück upland of southwestern Germany, to a family of Jewish businesspeople. In 1936, his family fled the Nazis and emigrated to the United States. During his military service, Harry Raymon began studying acting. Among his teachers was Erwin Piscator (in New York), and among his classmates were Tony Curtis, Harry Belafonte, and Marlon Brando. After the war, he first returned to France, then Germany, where he embarked on a successful career as an actor, director, voice actor, pantomime, model, and writer.

In his 1982 film Regentropfen (Raindrops), Harry Raymon tells the story of his family during the Nazi era. In 2020, he published his autobiography Anders von Anfang an: Nachdenken über ein langes Leben (Different from the Start: Contemplating a Long Life), an important testimony, also in terms of queer perspectives.

recording available

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)

Video recording from 28 February, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2022

A conversation with Harry Raymon and Aubrey Pomerance, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Archive

Where, when, what?

  • WhenMon 28 Feb 2022, 7 pm
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium
    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)
    See location on map

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