• Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche
  • Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche
  • Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche
  • Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche
  • Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche
  • Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche

Michael Kerstgens Neues Leben Russen – Juden – Deutsche

This book is the last part of photographer Michael Kerstgens' long-running project on Jewish life in Germany. The point of departure for his documentation in this volume is the period of reorientation of Jewish life in Germany following reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since 1990, thousands of socalled "Kontingentflüchtlinge," or Jewish contingent refugees, have flocked to Germany from Russia and the Soviet successor states. Their work revolves around social life in the Jewish communities and all the religious and social challenges they face. The book closes with current reports on Jewish families that Kerstgens already photographed in the early 1990s. Kerstgens has been professor of documentary photography in the design department at Hochschule Darmstadt since 2007. His extensive project on Jewish life was acquired in 2011 by the Photographic Collection of the Jewish Museum in Berlin and will be exhibited there for the first time in its entirety in spring 2012.

Hardcover 30 x 24 cm 136 pages 121 duotone illustrations German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-277-1 2012

Artist:

Michael Kerstgens

Texts:

Wolfgang Büscher, Michael Kerstgens, Hanno Loewy

Exhibitions

Jüdisches Museum Berlin
20.04. – 15.07.2012

Designhaus /Alfred-Messel-Haus,
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
04.11. – 02.12.2012

Ludwiggalerie Schloß Oberhausen
24.02. – 21.04.2013

Ungarisches Außenministerium, Budapest
05.03. – 21.03.2013

Museum für Budapester Geschichte, Budapest
02.05. – 23.06.2013

Stiftung Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus
Deutsch-osteuropäisches Forum Düsseldorf
09.03. – 30.04.2015

11 .Jüdische Kulturtage Münster 2016
05. – 29.04.2016

Jüdisches Museum Tuvie Maizel, Mexico City
21.09. – 01.12.2016

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