Frédéric Brenner

Frédéric Brenner (* 1959 in Paris ) is a French photographer .

Life

Brenner studied social anthropology at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. For more than twenty years since 1978, Frédéric Brenner has photographed Jewish communities in over forty countries, from Ethiopia to Hong Kong to Uzbekistan . The result is a work that documents living Judaism as an anthology . It shows the diverse ways in which Jewish customs can mix with the customs of the respective environment and yet always retain their independence. Brenner had solo exhibitions, a. a. at the International Center of Photography in New York, at the Rencontres d'Arles in Arles , the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne . He is u. a. Winner of the Prix du Rome 1992. Brenner also made the documentary The Last Marranos (about one of the last crypto-Jewish communities in Belmonte ) and has published several books, including Jérusalem: Instants D'Eternité (1984), Israel (1988), Marranes (1993) , Jews / America / A Representation (1996) and Exile at Home (1998) and most recently the two-volume work Diaspora , which in its text part contains essays on individual photographs by Brenners and others. a. by Jacques Derrida , Carlos Fuentes , Stephen Greenblatt , Elfriede Jelinek , Benny Lévy and George Steiner .

Brenner's partner is the curator , theater scholar and cultural historian Hetty Berg , with whom he already lived in Berlin for a while. Berg has been the director of the Jewish Museum Berlin since April 1, 2020 .

Publications

Diaspora - home in exile. Translated from the English by Tina and Vladimir Delavre, Sonja Schumacher and Rita Seuss . Stern-Buch, Hamburg 2006. ISBN 3-89660-191-1
Les derniers Marranes (with a contribution by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi : le temps, la peur, la mémoire ). Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7291-0809-2

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Nicola Kuhn: Hetty Berg should fix it: The new head of the Jewish Museum Berlin must work miracles. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 20, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brenner, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris

[1] Nicola Kuhn: Hetty Berg should fix it: The new head of the Jewish Museum Berlin must work miracles. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 20, 2020, accessed April 1, 2020 .