Stadt ohne Juden

Die Nachtseite der Münchner Stadtgeschichte

Stadt ohne Juden

Die Nachtseite der Münchner Stadtgeschichte

City without Jews
The Dark Side of Munich’s History

Throughout 2008 Munich is celebrating its 850th anniversary. Such jubilees are often seen as occasions to look back on a city’s history with pride, to identify with it, and to awaken the residents’ awareness of its history. But how is a museum – whose task is to promote the history and culture of a certain section of the community – supposed to react to such a festival year, when for more than 400 years in the city’s 850-year history, that very community was involuntarily and often forcefully excluded from taking part?

In its contribution to the city’s anniversary, the Jewish Museum Munich…

City without Jews
The Dark Side of Munich’s History

Throughout 2008 Munich is celebrating its 850th anniversary. Such jubilees are often seen as occasions to look back on a city’s history with pride, to identify with it, and to awaken the residents’ awareness of its history. But how is a museum – whose task is to promote the history and culture of a certain section of the community – supposed to react to such a festival year, when for more than 400 years in the city’s 850-year history, that very community was involuntarily and often forcefully excluded from taking part?

In its contribution to the city’s anniversary, the Jewish Museum Munich has chosen to trace precisely those times during the last 850 years when Jews were not allowed to live there, when Munich was a “city without Jews.” At the same time, the reasons for their expulsion, persecution, and settlement prohibitions have been highlighted and the issue of the dark side of Munich’s history broached.

The twelve exhibits, which render predominantly negative events in the city’s history visible, are complemented by video boards in the exhibition. Students at the College for Television and Film in Munich have collated statements by historians and experts in the fields of literature, politics, and cultural affairs, related to Munich’s topography and which refer to events of exclusion, persecution, and annihilation that actually happened. This allows visitors to the exhibition “City without Jews: The Dark Side of Munich’s History” to see the objects in a broader historical context while at the same time linking them to specific sites in Munich.

Duration of exhibition

August 24, 2008 - August 30, 2009

Curator

Bernhard Purin

Assistance

Tatjana Neef

Architecture

Architect Martin Kohlbauer, Vienna

Installation View „City without Jews – The Dark Side of Munich’s History“
Installation View „City without Jews – The Dark Side of Munich’s History“

PUBLIKATION

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ISBN 978-3-938832-41-X

 

Vielleicht sollten sich die Veranstalter für das Guiness-Buch der Rekorde bewerben. Denn es ist rekordverdächtig, mit nur 12 Exponaten eine 850 Jahre umspannende Geschichte so anschaulich und packend darzustellen, wie derzeit im Jüdischen Museum in München.

 

 

 

 

Straubinger Tagblatt, 21. Oktober 2008

Es gehört zu den Vorzügen von Purins Ausstellung, wenige Artefakte zu zeigen, um desto wirkungsvoller auf die Insistenz antisemitischer Argumentationszusammenhänge hinweisen zu können.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Der Standard, 28. Oktober 2008

Eine außergewöhnliche, unbedingt sehenswerte Ausstellung!

 

Die Rheinpfalz, 08. November 2008
Ein Museum der Landeshauptstadt München