Bernhard Purin

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Bernhard Purin (born October 6, 1963 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian cultural scientist and director of the Jewish Museum in Munich .

Career

Bernhard Purin studied empirical cultural studies and modern history in Tübingen from 1985 to 1990 . In 1990/91 he was project manager for the development of the Jewish Museum Hohenems , from 1992 to 1995 curator at the Jewish Museum Vienna , where he a. a. curated one of the first exhibitions on the problem of looted art in 1995, he took over the management of the Jewish Museum Franconia , whose two houses in Schnaittach and Fürth opened in 1996 and 1999 respectively. During his work in Fürth there were repeated disputes about the conception of the Jewish Museum Franconia. The Israelite religious communities in Nuremberg and Fürth, local historians and the then Bavarian Minister of the Interior Günther Beckstein repeatedly called for Purin to be recalled. The controversy reached a climax with the dispute over the satirical exhibition Feinkost Adam by the Berlin artist Anna Adam . In this and previous disputes, Purin was always able to assert himself against influences by invoking the independence of the conceptual representation and with the support of the professional world and the sponsorship of the museum.

In 2002, at the suggestion of Lydia Hartl, then Munich's cultural advisor , Purin was appointed founding director of the Munich Jewish Museum by the Munich City Council, which opened in 2007 on the basis of his concept. Until it opened in 2017, he was part of the concept team for the construction of the Olympic Assassination Memorial Site in Munich.

From 2001 to 2007 Purin was a board member of the Association of European Jewish Museums and has been a member of this body since 2013. He is a member of the scientific board of trustees of the Museum Alte Synagoge Erfurt and the scientific advisory board of the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia , the editorial board of the magazine Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and the Advisory Board of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933–1945 .

Others

Bernhard Purin is a son of the Austrian architect Hans Purin (1933–2010) and a grandson of the Austrian painter Hans Purin (1898–1989). He lives in Munich and Rosenburg (Lower Austria).

Works (selection)

  • The Jews of Sulz. A rural Jewish community in Vorarlberg, 1676–1744. Bregenz 1991, ISBN 3-900754-11-X .
  • Confiscated. The collection of the Vienna Jewish Museum after 1938 . Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-901398-02-3 .
  • Where a Jewish heart can really rest ... "Notes on Jewish folk art . In: Herbert Nikitsch, Bernhard Tschofen (Hrsg.): Volkskunst. Lectures at the Austrian Folklore Conference 1995. Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900358-11-7 .
  • Wilhelm Frey: The colorful house. Jewish stories from Hohenems. Edited and with an afterword by Bernhard Purin. Hecht-Verlag, Hard 1996, ISBN 3-85298-019-4 .
  • “... a treasure chest of ancient Jewish history. The Gundelfinger Collection in the Jewish Museum Franconia ” . Jewish Museum Franconia, Fürth 1998, ISBN 3-9805388-4-2 .
  • Book of memory. The Vienna Memor Book of the Fürth Klaus Synagogue . Jewish Museum Franconia, Fürth 1999, ISBN 3-9805388-6-9 .
  • Jewish Museum Franconia - Fürth & Schnaittach . Prestel Verlag , Munich / London / New York 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2205-2 .
  • Jewish Schnaittach. Invitation to a tour . Medien und Dialog, Haigerloch 1999, ISBN 3-933231-05-1 .
  • The world of the Jewish postcards . Christian Brandstätter Verlag , Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85498-144-9 .
  • Saved or Robbed? On the appropriation of Judaica under National Socialism and today . In: Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property Magdeburg (ed.): Museums in Twilight - Your Own History . Magdeburg 2002, pp. 403-418.
  • Jutta Fleckenstein, Bernhard Purin (Ed.): Jewish Museum Munich. Prestel Verlag , Munich / London / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3826-2 . (Museum guide)
  • City without Jews. The night side of Munich's city history . Edition Minerva, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938832-41-7 .
  • Building a Jewish Museum in Germany in the Twenty-First Century . In: Robin Ostow (Ed.): (Re) visualizing National History. Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium . Toronto 2008, ISBN 978-0-8020-9221-2 , pp. 139-156.
  • A Jewish Museum for Munich . In: Material Religion. The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief . 4th vol., H. 1 (2008), pp. 114-118.
  • Signage and metal art Heinrich Schwed. Judaica from a Munich arts and crafts workshop . Jewish Museum Munich, Munich 2009.
  • "In retrospect, we have to leave a lot open because there are no findings ..." Bernhard Purin, director of the Jewish Museum in Munich in conversation with Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen . In: Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen (Ed.): Permanent exhibitions. Highlights on one format . Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1873-0 , pp. 115–125.
  • Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek ; Bernhard Purin (Ed.): Everything has its time. Rituals against oblivion. Kehrer Verlag , Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-399-0 .
  • Samson's candlestick. A Hanukkah candlestick owned by the Wertheimer family . Jewish Museum Munich, Munich 2013.
  • Emily D. Bilski, Bernhard Purin (Ed.): Smiling at You. Sharone Lifschitz: Works 2000-2014. Kehrer Verlag , Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-486-7 .
  • Lilian Harlander, Bernhard Purin (Ed.): Beer is the wine of this country. Jewish brewing stories , Volk Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86222-211-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Confiscated. The collection of the Vienna Jewish Museum after 1938 . Vienna (Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna) 1995.
  2. ^ Eva-Maria Graw: The dispute over the Jewish Museum escalates. In: The world. March 10, 2001, accessed August 9, 2012 .
  3. ↑ DW: Minister calls for changes in Fürth. In: The world. April 24, 2002, accessed August 9, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Alexander Mayer: The farewell interview: Bernhard Purin. (No longer available online.) In: Altstadtbläddla 37. Altstadtverein St. Michael Fürth, 2003, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved August 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadtverein-fuerth.de
  5. ↑ Andrea Übelhack: Dispute about the Jewish Museum Fürth. In: haGalil.com. December 11, 2000, accessed August 9, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Andrea Übelhack: The dispute in Fürth continues: Is a museum allowed to show the Nazi film "Jud Süß"? In: haGalil.com. February 13, 2001, accessed August 9, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Andrea Übelhack: Trouble with the Jewish Museum Fürth and its director. In: haGalil.com. March 12, 2001, Retrieved August 9, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Holger Liebs: Stumbling blocks in a vacuum. March 21, 2007, accessed August 4, 2012 .
  9. ^ Press release by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, November 1, 2012
  10. ^ Homepage of the organization
  11. ^ Homepage of the journal
  12. ↑ Homepage of the institution
personal data
SURNAME Purine, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural scientist and director of the Jewish Museum in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz