Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: elsen

A Visit with Sister Katharina at Karmel Berlin Covering one’s head has almost entirely disappeared from Christian women’s devotional practice. In Germany, you only actually see veils on the sisters of Catholic religious orders. In preparing for the exhibition Cherchez la femme (more about it on our website) we all agreed early on that we …
Ultimately, everything else is formalities.

our blog series “Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein” “Her and no one else

depiction of the Nazi regime and German history, we needed to talk about something else

von Glikl von Hameln, Dorothea Schlegel und Albertine Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, über Else

An Interview with Lina Khesina 30 July 2014 is International Friendship Day. But how do we commemorate friendship? Or how do we make it visible? We consulted with communications designer Lina Khesina to find out. She devised a pair of ‘friendship buttons’ that you can get at the moment from the art vending machine in …
With the right friend, you can be just as you are – and not someone else, as we sometimes

Around sixty people witness the moment and look away, hoping that someone else will

Though I would have also participated, had they taken place somewhere else.

An extraordinary gift Last week, museum benefactor Fred Kranz accepted our invitation to participate in two workshops in our archives. He met with two classes of schoolchildren, one from Döbeln in Saxony and the other from Berlin’s Tegel district. It was the fifth time in recent years that Mr. Kranz – who was born in …
And as he went by, without anyone else seeing, he suddenly pressed something into

An Obituary Rabbi Lionel Blue was one of the last of a generation of liberal rabbis in Britain that included Rabbis John Rayner, Hugo Gryn and Albert H. Friedlander. They were all children of the Second World War who carried stories of loss and displacement with them. Each of them was singularly brilliant and charismatic …
No one else, before or since, has ever managed to get a dog into her mother’s kitchen

An Encounter with Daniela Orvin, Photographer “Dyslexic dysgraphia”—the title of the photo series by Israeli artist Daniela Orvin on sale since April 2016 in the Jewish Museum Berlin’s art vending machine is pretty difficult to grasp; but it simply means “difficulty with reading and writing.” “Every one of my artworks is a self-portrait,” the photographer …
More than anything else she loves the intuitive aspects of her work, the unending