Highlights der 39. Jüdischen Kulturtage München 2025

In the organizer's words:

For 39 years, the Jewish Culture Days Munich have been a highlight of Munich's cultural fall and provide insights into the diversity and richness of Jewish culture and tradition. For the 2025 program, the Gesellschaft zur Förderung jüdischer Kultur und Tradition e. V. München has been able to attract renowned representatives of the Jewish and Munich cultural scene to contribute to this festival of Jewish life. Under the motto "United at heart", this year's cultural festival will once again send a strong signal of solidarity and tolerance with Jewish life in our city and against anti-Semitism. This year's highlights include:

The exhibition "DO YOU WANT MY OPION - Never again is now" with the artist duo Karla Helene Hecker & Levke Leiß, conceptual artist Jan Kuck and painter Sabina Sakoh will be open to visitors from November 17. In several rooms, the exhibition deals with the three interwoven themes of standing up against anti-Semitism, remembrance culture and resistance in order to set an example for humanity, togetherness and intelligent discourse.

On November 19, the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism will show the film "I dance but my heart is crying" followed by an artist talk. Co-producer Yves Kugelmann and klezmer punk musician Daniel Kahn will talk about the rediscovery of Jewish music recordings from the 1930s that were destroyed during the pogrom night of 1938. The evening will be hosted by Adrian Prechtel, deputy head of the Abendzeitung's culture desk.

On November 23, the Kulturtage-Talk "Jewish Life in Germany - Today and Tomorrow" will take place at the Literaturhaus München. Gil Bachrach talks to Philipp Peyman Engel, editor-in-chief of the Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, author and actress Adriana Altaras and Marcel Reif, sports journalist and commentator, about the current situation and the role of culture, media and education for social coexistence. Closing comments Dr. h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.

In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich, the exhibition tour with artist talk "The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory" will take place on December 2 at 7:00 pm. In the art project "from you to / today", Lydia Bergida and Georg Soanca-Pollak, both grandsons of Holocaust survivors, explore the representation and documentation of memory within Munich families of Jewish origin. The persecuted and murdered relatives are included in this creative act of constructed "family constellation". A new family photo in front of an individually erected menorah captures the moment. In a conversation between the two artists and some of the people portrayed, we learn more about the project and how the descendants deal with their family heritage.

Information and tickets for the events at: juedischekulturmuenchen.de