Hetty Berg

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Hetty Berg (born in 1961 in The Hague ) is a Dutch curator , theater scholar and cultural historian who as chief curator of the Jewish cultural center ( Dutch Joods Cultureel Kwartier ) in Amsterdam worked. On April 1, 2020, she took over the management of the Jewish Museum Berlin as the successor to the Judaist Peter Schäfer, who was divorced in the conflict .

life and work

Berg was born in The Hague in 1961; she comes from a Jewish family. She studied theater studies in Amsterdam and non-profit organization management in Utrecht . From 1989 onwards she worked as a curator and cultural historian at the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam. In 2002 she took over the functions of manager and chief curator in the Jewish cultural quarter. In addition to the Joods Historisch Museum, this also includes the Portuguese Synagogue , the Nationaal Holocaust Museum , the Hollandsche Schouwburg Memorial and the JHM Children's Museum. As a manager, she played a key role in the development of the Jewish cultural quarter in Amsterdam.

In November 2019, the German state minister for culture, Monika Grütters, announced her appointment as director of the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB), the largest Jewish museum in Europe with 650,000 visitors and a government grant of more than 15 million euros (as of 2019). Grütters is the chairwoman of the JMB Board of Trustees. The institution was criticized several times in the 2010s, both from Jewish circles and from the press. Berg's appointment was expressly welcomed by the Central Council of Jews in Germany . Since a large part of the Jewish museums, Jewish memorials and Jewish cultural institutions were run by people without Jewish roots, the journalist Mirna Funk saw Berg's calling as historically significant.

Berg's partner is the photographer Frédéric Brenner , with whom she lived in Berlin for a while. In 2010 she was one of the curators of the exhibition Heroes, Freaks, Superrabbis about Jewish comics, which was shown in the Jewish museums of Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris.

Publications (selection)

  • Hetty Berg, Bart Wallet: How niet is gone, is gezien . Joods Nederland na 1945. Ed .: Joods Historisch Museum. Uitgeverij WBOOKS, Zwolle 2010, ISBN 978-90-400-7715-9 (Dutch).
  • Hetty Berg: Eli Content . So much I gazed on beauty. Walburg Pers BV, Uitgeverij, Zwolle 2019, ISBN 978-94-6249-436-7 (Dutch).
  • Frank van Vree, Hetty Berg, David Duindam (eds.): Site of Deportation, Site of Memory . The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2017, ISBN 978-94-6298-557-5 (English).
  • Judith Frishmann, Hetty Berg: Dutch Jewry in an cultural maelstrom, 1880–1940 . Aksant Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-5260-268-4 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Müller: the portrait: Hetty Berg becomes the new head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In: taz.de . November 28, 2019, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hetty Berg has been appointed as the new director of the Jewish Museum Berlin. In: jmberlin.de. November 26, 2019, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mirna Funk: Hetty Berg's appointment to the Jewish Museum is a historic event. In: monopoly . Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 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 January 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Luisa Reisinger: Hetty Berg: "She'll rock it!" In: zeit.de . December 5, 2019, accessed January 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Hetty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch curator and museum manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague