Since 2020, the Berlin Mendelssohn Society has been counting down to the great Jewish philosopher and Enlightenment thinker’s 300th birthday on 6 September 2029. On the occasion of the current exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment”, the Jewish Museum Berlin joins the Mendelssohn Society’s celebrations for his 293rd birthday .
Past event
Where
Monument marking Moses Mendelssohn’s former home
off-site: Spandauer Straße, Berlin-Mitte / corner of Karl Liebknecht-Straße
A reading by actor Burghart Klaußner will honor the place that forever connects the thinker who “achieved immortal things” to Berlin: It will be held in front of his former home on Spandauer Strasse in Berlin-Mitte, where a monument by Micha Ullman and a memorial plaque commemorate Moses Mendelssohn today. The duo Clariac, with Christine Pate on the accordion and Matthias Badczong on the clarinet, will provide the musical accompaniment to the jour fixe on Mendelssohn’s birthday with works by George Frideric Handel and others.
In cooperation with the Mendelssohn Society and St. Matthew Foundation.
Events accompanying the exhibition: “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment” – Moses Mendelssohn (11)