Petra Kunik

Petra Kunik, here in 2015 in Hanover ;
at the study conference For God's Will - Religion in Secular Society of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)

Petra Kunik (* 1945 in Magdeburg ) is a German writer.

Life

Kunik grew up in Frankfurt am Main. She is an active member of the Jewish community . As a trained actress, she began her career in 1963 as "Little Prince" in the basement theater Die Katakombe . In addition to various engagements at the theater, she also directed and appeared as the author of children's theater pieces , for example The Magic Clown . She has also staged literary reviews for adults. Since 1988 Petra Kunik has been writing books with titles such as The Gifted Grandfather and Vom Hohen Rabbi Löw und seine Golem .

Kunik is an interreligious / intercultural speaker and freelance writer. She is the 1st chairwoman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Frankfurt am Main and member of the board of the interreligious women group Sara - Hagar Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate , a founding member of the egalitarian minyan in the Jewish community of Frankfurt / M. She is also a member of the discussion group Jews and Christians in the Central Committee of German Catholics and board member of the Abrahamic Forum in Germany

Publications

• with Micha Brumlik : Reichspogromnacht. Coming to terms with the past from a Jewish perspective. Brandes and Apsel, 2nd edition 1988, ISBN 3-925798-92-7
• The present grandfather. Book guild Gutenberg, 1989 / Brandes & Apsel, 1995
• Not a good address - Judengasse. Schutt publishing house, 1992
• The High Rabbi Löw Golem and his Golem - grandmother tells. Brandes & Apsel, 1995
• Listening and searching together: Jewish-Muslim encounters (Ed'in) AphorimA Verlag -Berlin 2020 ISBN 978-3-86575-082-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Petra Kunik in the catalog of the German National Library