Weimar, the Future Jerusalem?
Panel Discussion with members of the Medinat Weimar Committee and Others (with audio recording, in English and German)
Medinat Weimar is a movement advocating the establishment of a Jewish state in Thuringia. This artistic initiative by Ronen Eidelman began on the streets of Weimar and later moved to the Internet. Medinat Weimar sees itself as an attempt to provide solutions to political conflicts, whether in Israel or in the federal state of Thuringia itself.
recording available
Participants
Ronen Eidelman, Tel Aviv, artist
Sami Khatib, Berlin, movement activist
Prof. Liz Bachhuber, Bauhaus University Weimar, Fine Arts Department
Prof. Dr. Hanne Seitz, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Theory and Practice of Aesthetic Concepts
Moderator: Cilly Kugelmann, Jewish Museum Berlin
Featuring a musical greeting by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird as an introduction.
Audio recording of the panel discussion Weimar, the Future Jerusalem? with members of the Medinat Weimar committee and others, on 14 January 2012; Jewish Museum Berlin, 2011
Medinat Weimar promotion video
The Medinat Weimar movement not only supports the efforts of young Jewish Israelis to obtain a second passport from a European country or even to take on German nationality. It also offers a vision of a social utopia that aims to stop the decline of Thuringia's population and combat the popularity of radical right-wing ideology. Medinat Weimar draws on various ideas discussed in connection with the Zionist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
(From the catalogue for the exhibition How German is it? 30 Artists’ Notion of Home)
According to one of the thirteen Medinat Weimar theses, “people of all backgrounds and nationalities” are encouraged to participate.
Medinat Weimar
offices have been set up at several exhibitions in order to spread the vision of this kind of community.
The panel discussion Weimar, the Future Jerusalem? is part of the accompanying program for the exhibition How German is it? 30 Artists’ Notion of Home, in which Medinat Weimar is represented through an installation.
When & Where?
- When14 Jan 2012
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Where
Old Building, level 1, Education Room
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
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