Events

Art and Culture in the former Synagogue Muehlhausen
on the occasion of the anniversary year “321–2021: 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany”

Venue:
Old Synagogue Muehlhausen (Middle Franconia)

• • • 11 July 2021: Exhibition Irina Gerschmann “Auf dem Weg ins Gelobte Land” (On the way to the Promised Land) + exhibition of photographs of Synagogue Muehlhausen.
      Beginning at 3:00 pm.
      I. Gerschmann, Exodus, fragment
      Free entrance.
      Opening times: Saturday-Sunday (11/7, 17/7, 18/7, 24/7 & 25/7/2021) 3:00-7:00 pm
      Opening Sun, 11/7/2021 at 3:00 pm – with invitation, from 5:00 pm – free
      Closing event Sun, 25/07/2021 – 5:00-7:00 pm
      Musical accompaniment: The world of Klezmer – music evening with the trio Mame-loshn. Leonid Khenkin – clarinet / Michail Winnizkij – accordion / Svetlana Khenkina  – bass clarinet.
      
      Exhibition: Irina Gerschmann: Gerschmann studied art and fashion design in Moscow and since 1993 works as freelance artist in Germany. Within the context of dealing with her own Jewish background, she has steadily refined her imagery and has developed her own symbols and forms of expression. In its combination of closely written text and figurative scenes of the history of the Jewish people the large-size monumental work “Der Ewige Zug der Jüdischen Geschichte“ (The Jewish History’s Eternal Procession) made in 2008 orientates itself towards the detailed thoughts of knowledge transfer of the “Biblia pauperum”. The exhibition focuses on the Jewish perspective of the artist’s work, but also shows the technical versatility of her artistic practice (see www.gerschmann.net).
      Exhibition of photographs of Synagogue Muehlhausen: Results of the building research in the former synagogue Muehlhausen and impressions of the Muehlhausen genizah. Muehlhausen’s former synagogue was erected in 1755/56, reconstructed in 1833 and after the desecration of the November Pogrom in 1938 remodelled into a garage and warehouse. The exhibition is meant to present the results of the extensive building research made in 2020 by the University of Bamberg and by an office for building research and renovation planning to the public for the first time. On the basis of these results the renovation concept of the building will be developed. In addition, the excavation of the Muehlhausen genizah made by members of the Genizah Project Veitshöchheim will be documented. The exhibition is conceived as travelling exhibition and is to be shown at other places of Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt (e.g. Jewish community Erlangen, Museum Höchstadt).
    • 25 June 2021, Concert Igor Loboda – violin / Leonid Alpert – accordion.
      Music of European Jews and Jewish composers.
      Beginning at 3:00 pm
      
      Leonid Alpert & Igor Loboda, Photographs: Leonid Alpert, © Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt.
      Igor Loboda studied at the Music Academy Tbilisi and in Saint Petersburg and gained awards in composition competitions in Tbilisi (1976) and Moscow (1978). Since 1981 he is a member of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, for which he has written several arrangements. Leonid Alpert studied orchestral conducting at the State University of Culture and the Arts in Krasnodar. He is master of the Choir ALEF in Karlsruhe.
      Price per person € 10.00, payable at the evening box office.
      5:00-7:00 pm closing event: Exhibition Irina Gerschmann + exhibition of photographs of Synagogue Muehlhausen.
    • 18 September 2021: Jewish fairy tales and legends – a storytelling evening
      Beginning at 6:00 pm.
      
      © Gerschmann art & design
      Storytellers of the European Fairy Tale Society present Jewish legends and fairy tales. The stories are recited freely, but text-bounded. In addition to the cultivation of the narrative tradition, the questions where Jewish fairy tales come from and how they are characterised are addressed. In the breaks between the stories musical performances take place. At the end there is the possibility to discuss the archetypes and symbols presented in the fairy tales and to compare them with Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
      Price per person € 10.00, payable at the evening box office.
    • 19 September 2021: Concert Ensemble SIMKHAT HANEFESH – „Eine Reise durch Aschkenas. Die Fahrten des Abraham Levie, 1719-1723“ (A journey through Ashkenaz. The travels of Abraham Levie, 1719-1723). 
      Beginnig at 3:00 pm.
      
      
      Price per person € 10.00, payable at the evening box office.
      A programme with rediscovered Jewish music of Renaissance and Baroque. Simkhat Hanefesh (Hebrew: Joy of the soul) travels musically with Abraham Levie and presents you Yiddish songs and Jewish instrumental music of Renaissance and Baroque connected to the places of his travel. Additionally, short excerpts from his Yiddish report are read in German translation.
      Diana Matut – singing, recorder, nyckelharpa /
      James Hewitt – Baroque violin, Baroque viola /
      Nora Thiele – percussion, frame drums, bells, colascione /
      Erik Warkenthin – lute, theorbo, Baroque guitar /
      Dietrich Haböck – viola da Gamba
      
      Photographs: Simkhat Hanefesh

Additional Events 2021

• • • 11 and 12 September 2021: Tag des offenen Denkmals® (Day of Open Monuments)
      
      Coordinated throughout Germany by Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz
      Motto: Illusion & reality – in history, architecture and  preservation of historical monuments
      On Saturday and Sunday the former synagogue Muehlhausen is open 1:00–6:00 pm.
      Free entrance.
    • 05 September 2021: Kirchweihsonntag (Church fair)
      On Sunday, 05/09/2021, during the parish fair of Muehlhausen, the former synagogue Muehlhausen is open for interessted visitors from 2:00-4:00 pm.
      Free entrance