Cilly Kugelmann

Cilly Kugelmann (* 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German-Israeli historian. From 2002 to the beginning of 2017 she was program director of the Jewish Museum Berlin and deputy director.

Life

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Cilly Kugelmann emigrated to Israel in 1966 and studied art history and general history at the Hebrew University . In 1971 she returned to Germany and studied educational science , sociology and psychology . After graduating, she taught at the Ruprecht-Karls University, among others . Since 1980 she has published the magazine Babylon : Contributions to the Jewish Present . From 1986 to 2000 she worked at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt , since 2001 at the Jewish Museum Berlin, initially as director of science and research and exhibition director. In September 2002 she became program director of the Jewish Museum Berlin; She handed over the post to Léontine Meijer-van Mensch from the Netherlands on February 1, 2017 .

Publications

• with Hanno Loewy (Ed.): It was that simple: Jewish childhood and youth in Germany since 1945. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7818-X (= contemporary testimonies from the Jewish Museum Berlin ).
• with Micha Brumlik , Doron Kiesel: Jewish life in Germany since 1945. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7610-0396-X .
• with Michal Friedlander (ed.): Kosher and Co. About food and religion. Exhibition catalog Jewish Museum Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89479-538-2 .
• as editor: Heimat und Exil. Emigration of German Jews after 1933. Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-633-54222-2 .
• with Fritz Backhaus (ed.): Jewish characters in film and caricature. the Rothschilds and Joseph Süss Oppenheimer. Published by the Jewish Museum and City of Frankfurt am Main , Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-2317-0 .
• “ The way is long ”. A Jewish-German film cooperation in: Auschwitz: history, reception and effect . 1996 yearbook on the history and effects of the Holocaust, published by the Fritz Bauer Institute , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35441-1 .
• with Micha Brumlik, Rachel Heuberger (eds.): Journeys through Jewish Germany , DuMont, Cologne ISBN 978-3-8321-7932-8 .
• with Signe Rossbach, Michael S. Friedlander, Miriam Goldmann (eds.): Chrismukkah: Stories of Christmas and Hanukkah , Nicolai, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89479-286-2 (volume accompanying the exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin from 28. October 2005 to January 29, 2006).
• with Margret Kampmeyer, Marie Naumann (eds.): Deadly Medicine: Rassenwahn im National Socialism , Wallstein, ISBN 978-3-8353-0468-0 .
• with Nicola Lepp, Daniel Tyradellis (eds.): Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud on the 150th birthday. , Nicolai, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89479-318-0 (volume accompanying the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin, April 7 to August 27, 2006).
• with Doron Kiesel (author), Hanno Loewy, Dietrich Neuhauß (eds.): "Who to live, who to death ...": Strategies for Jewish survival in the ghetto , Campus, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 978-3-593-34764-6 .
• with Bernhard Moltmann, Doron Kiesel (eds.): Remembering , Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-89228-989-0 .
• with Julian Nida-Rümelin , Salomon Korn , Hermann Simon , Thomas Lackmann: Jewish Museum Berlin. Special publication for the opening. , Jewish Culture Edition / Jüdische Presse, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-935097-06-2 .

Web links

• Video: Cilly Kugelmann explains the exhibition philosophy of the Jewish Museum Berlin