ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits
Photos from the Exhibition Opening and Interviews about Jewish Life in Berlin
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.
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Ofer Waldman, freelance journalist and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Nina, Dekel & Ronja Peretz, Fraenkelufer Synagogue; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Judith Kessler, social scientist, editor, and writer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov, visual artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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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
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Barbara Steiner, therapist; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Sonia Simmenauer-Pazzini, woman, mother and grandmother, concert agent and salonière & Karl-Josef Pazzini, psychoanalyst; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Dr. Irene Runge, b. 1942 in New York, NY. Moved to East Berlin (GDR) in 1949; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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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
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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
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Sarah Nemtsov, freelance composer; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Olaf Lemke, one of Europe’s five biggest frame dealers; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Max Czollek, writer from Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Rabbi Walter Homolka, Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam and Rector of the Abraham Geiger Kolleg; photo: Tobias Barniske
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Daniel Schönpflug, historian at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Pavel Feinstein, painter; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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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
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Adam Joachim “A.J.” Goldmann, cultural journalist and critic; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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Carey Harrison, novelist, dramatist, and professor; photo: Frédéric Brenner
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Anastassia Pletoukhina and Valentin Lutset, a Jewish activist from Charlottenburg; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jule Roehr
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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

Exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: Features & Programs
- Exhibition Webpage
- Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 3 Sep 2021 to 24 Apr 2022
- Publications
- Frédéric Brenner: ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 2021, publication accompanying the exhibition
- Accompanying Events
- Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces: Invitation to learn together
- See also
- Frédéric Brenner, photographer
- Digital Content
- Without the Leaves, I Would Not Have Started: Essay by Frédéric Brenner on ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, 2021
- Staging Jewishness: Video recording of the artist talk with Frédéric Brenner, 2022
- Current page: ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits: Photos and interviews about Jewish life in Berlin, 2021/22
- Hevrutah on Memory/Place: Video recording, with Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner, 2021, in German with English subtitles
- Hevrutah on Otherness/Responsibility: Video recording, with Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Benyamin Reich, Irene Runge, and Adam Joachim Goldmann, 2021, in German with English subtitles
- Hevrutah on Homeland/Diaspora: Video recording, with Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, and Aviva Ronnefeld, 2022, in German with English subtitles