Anna Adam

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Anna Adam (born on March 21, 1963 in Siegen ) is a German painter , set designer , qualified pedagogue and exhibition designer .

Life

As the child of a survivor of the Holocaust , she deals provocatively with Judaism in her work . When asked how she herself assesses her satirical work, she replied:

“That's more self-defense. If you work on Jewish topics and are repeatedly confronted with nonsense - such as 'Oh, you are Jewish, you are still so young' or 'Oh, you are Jewish, but you speak German well' - then at some point you will say to yourself: If it wasn't so stupid, you could laugh about it. "

She studied from 1983 to 1990 in Düsseldorf and Hanover, from 1990 she worked as a freelance lecturer in both cities and received the Wilhelmina art scholarship in Amsterdam in 1994. Since then her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including in Amsterdam and with Act Up , Artists Against AIDS in London. Since 1997 she has been a member of the Meshulash (Hebrew 'triangle') group, in which Jewish and non-Jewish artists and intellectuals from different countries organize cultural activities and speak out on political issues: the group was founded in 1991 after the riots in Rostock -Lichtenhagen , which were directed against foreign asylum seekers. In 2002, her controversial exhibition Feinkost Adam took place at the Jewish Museum in Fürth . The exhibition showed u. a. an ironic Jewish mom and pop shop, with an assortment of warming pillows with a sewn Star of David or plush pigs (which, as the information letter accompanying the exhibition explained, Jews would not have to fear being eaten). Joel Berger , the spokesman for the Rabbinical Conference Germany, accused the artist of hating Jews and anti-Semitism.

Anna Adam lives together with the singer Jalda Rebling as a freelance artist and set designer in Berlin.

Publications

Exhibitions

  • Delicatessen Adam. Jewish Museum, Fürth 2002.
  • Participation in the exhibition Mendel's daughters and sons with 24 hours of everyday Jewish life made easy. Jewish Culture Days, Berlin 2004.

Movie

  • Jalda and Anna - First Generation After (Documentary, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jalda and Anna - first generation after. In: Remember.at , 2012; For breakfast with Anna Adam, artist and Jewish satirist. ( Memento in the January 16, 2014 Internet Archive ) In: Radio Bremen .com , April 7th, 2013.
  2. ↑ Der Jüdische Kalender 5768. Ölbaum-Verlag, 25th year, Augsburg 2008, as of March 25th, 2008 and 28th Adar I.
  3. ↑ Antonia Bauer: Holocaust Art: Healing Shocks? In: Zuender , Die Zeit No. 25 (2008); Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  4. ^ Website of the film .
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, set designer, qualified pedagogue and exhibition designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins