Bente Kahan
Bente Kahan (* 1958 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian - Jewish actress and musician . She comes from a Hasidic family whose members promoted Yiddish music.
Life
Her career as a musician and actress began in Tel Aviv and New York . She soon played on major stages such as the National Theaters of Israel and Norway. In order to develop her acting skills, she started a collaboration with the Norwegian theater director Ellen Foyn Bruun . In 1990 Bente Kahan received a prize from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, which she used to fund the Teater Dybbuk - Oslo (TDO). The goal of the TDO is to preserve or continue the Jewish-European culture. In 2006 she founded in Breslau (Wrocław), the Foundation Fundacja Bente Kahan(FBK), which tried to rebuild the old Wroclaw Synagogue White Storch . The building, which was not destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 , but increasingly fell into disrepair in view of the exodus of Polish Jews after 1968, has been used as a house of prayer again since 2010 and houses an international center for Jewish culture and education as well as a museum of Silesian Jews. In 2010 she received the Silesian Culture Prize of Lower Saxony for her work in the reconstruction of the synagogue . In 2019 she received the International Bridge Award .
Discography
- 1991: Yiddishkayt
- 1992: Farewell Cracow
- 1996: Stemmer from Theresienstadt (Norwegian)
- 1996: Voices from Theresienstadt (German)
- 1997: Voices from Theresienstadt (English)
- 1998: Di Gojim ( Klezmer music)
- 2000: Home
- 2005: Sing with us in Yiddish
Individual evidence
Web links
- Bente Kahan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Homepage of Bente Kahan (English)
- “An inheritance nobody cares about? That provoked me. «Interview and report by Raimund Wolfert.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahan, Bente |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian actress and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |