The exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES opened on 2 September 2021. In his new photographic essay, the photographer explored Berlin as the stage for a vast spectrum of expressions and performances of Jewishness, portraying landscapes and individuals. At the opening event, we had a chance to meet some of the portrait subjects and to photograph them standing in front of their portraits. We also asked them about their lives in Berlin and their hopes for Jews’ future in the city. The notion of “Jewish life in Berlin” is itself a construct and often describes a fantasy on the part of people outside the community. With that in mind, the multiplicity of portraits and responses to our questions may help to shift some of those ingrained ideas.
Ofer Waldman, freelance journalist and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Nina, Dekel & Ronja Peretz, Fraenkelufer Synagogue; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Judith Kessler, social scientist, editor, and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov, visual artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Akiva Weingarten, founder and President of the Besht Yeshiva in Dresden, the Rabbi of the Jewish community of Dresden and Rabbi of Migwan, the Liberal Jewish Congregation in Basel, Switzerland; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Barbara Steiner, therapist; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Sonia Simmenauer-Pazzini, woman, mother and grandmother, concert agent and salonière & Karl-Josef Pazzini, psychoanalyst; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Dr. Irene Runge, b. 1942 in New York, NY. Moved to East Berlin (GDR) in 1949; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Tal Alon, founder and editor of SPITZ, Hebrew Magazine in Berlin, and head of division at the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation & Olaf Kühnemann, artist; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Lea Rosh, television journalist, author, and chair of the Society to Support the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Sarah Nemtsov, freelance composer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Olaf Lemke, one of Europe’s five biggest frame dealers; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Max Czollek, writer from Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Rabbi Walter Homolka, Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam and Rector of the Abraham Geiger Kolleg; photo: Tobias Barniske
Daniel Schönpflug, historian at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Pavel Feinstein, painter; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Christina von Braun, filmmaker and writer, co-founder and the founding director of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg; photo: Christina von Braun
Adam Joachim “A.J.” Goldmann, cultural journalist and critic; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Carey Harrison, novelist, dramatist, and professor; photo: Frédéric Brenner
Anastassia Pletoukhina and Valentin Lutset, a Jewish activist from Charlottenburg; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Stéphane Etrillard, author, business philosopher, coach and mentor; Jewish Museum Berlin; photo: Theresia Ziehe
Ofer Waldman, freelance journalist and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Judith Kessler, social scientist, editor, and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov, visual artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Akiva Weingarten, founder and President of the Besht Yeshiva in Dresden, the Rabbi of the Jewish community of Dresden and Rabbi of Migwan, the Liberal Jewish Congregation in Basel, Switzerland; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Barbara Steiner, therapist; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Sonia Simmenauer-Pazzini, woman, mother and grandmother, concert agent and salonière & Karl-Josef Pazzini, psychoanalyst; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Dr. Irene Runge, b. 1942 in New York, NY. Moved to East Berlin (GDR) in 1949; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Tal Alon, founder and editor of SPITZ, Hebrew Magazine in Berlin, and head of division at the German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation & Olaf Kühnemann, artist; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Lea Rosh, television journalist, author, and chair of the Society to Support the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Sarah Nemtsov, freelance composer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Olaf Lemke, one of Europe’s five biggest frame dealers; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Max Czollek, writer from Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Rabbi Walter Homolka, Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam and Rector of the Abraham Geiger Kolleg; photo: Tobias Barniske
Daniel Schönpflug, historian at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Christina von Braun, filmmaker and writer, co-founder and the founding director of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg; photo: Christina von Braun
Adam Joachim “A.J.” Goldmann, cultural journalist and critic; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Carey Harrison, novelist, dramatist, and professor; photo: Frédéric Brenner
Anastassia Pletoukhina and Valentin Lutset, a Jewish activist from Charlottenburg; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
Stéphane Etrillard, author, business philosopher, coach and mentor; Jewish Museum Berlin; photo: Theresia Ziehe
Citation recommendation:
Jewish Museum Berlin (2021/22), ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits. Photos from the Exhibition Opening and Interviews about Jewish Life in Berlin.
URL: www.jmberlin.de/en/node/8369
