Jens Huckeriede

Jens Huckeriede (born August 22, 1949 in Hamburg ; † December 8, 2013 there ) was a German filmmaker, alternative entrepreneur and educator.

Life

Jens Huckeriede grew up in Hamburg. He studied social pedagogy and worked as an “alternative accountant” from 1981 to 1987 in the Heinrichstrasse children's home. Then he turned to film. The main theme since the early 1990s has been new forms of memory of the Holocaust . From 1993 to 2006 he was a board member and then a full-time member of the management of the Sternipark youth welfare agency.

Remembrance work and artistic creation

In 1995, Jens Huckeriede surrounded the formerly Jewish quarter in Hamburg-Altona in more than forty hours with the lyrics “ An de Eck steiht'n Jung mit'n Tüdelband ”, which was written by the Jewish vocal trio Gebrüder Wolf . In the further course he researched the life stories of these brothers up to their descendants in the USA and processed this research on film. He had previously documented the dispute over the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Ottensen , which was to be built over, in a film that focused on conversations with Miriam Gillis-Carlebach , the daughter of the last chief rabbi Altonas murdered by the National Socialists. Huckeriede also conducted interviews with Miriam Gillis-Carlebach and the Holocaust survivors Esther Bauer († November 19, 2016), Esther Bejarano and Shlomo Schwarzschild and released them as a film, especially for schoolchildren. From 1995 to 2002, Huckeriede staged several performances in and in front of the Wohlers Allee 58 building in Hamburg, which was used as a Jewish people's home until 1938 and was reopened as a day care center by Sternipark in the early 1990s. This was to remind of the history of the Jews in Altona. Since 2007 he has been pursuing a similar project with regard to the Villa Guggenheim in Rothenbaumchaussee 121 in Hamburg. The Jewish Guggenheim family lived in the house until 1938, when they were evicted and emigrated to Rio de Janeiro. His last project was encounters between young people from several countries on the grounds of the former Neuengamme concentration camp . With all projects, Jens Huckeriede wanted to promote the development of “new forms of memory” for young people of the Holocaust.

Electricity price boycott

In the eighties, Jens Huckeriede, together with others, organized a boycott of electricity price payments from children's projects in Hamburg to the local electricity companies. This was justified by the fact that the aluminum works located in Hamburg were granted a considerably lower electricity price than social institutions. As a result, the HEW offered a significantly lower price.

Filmography

• 1990: Lubitsch Junior , together with J. Ramcke, Christian Bau
• 1994: Beth Hachajim, House of Life , dispute over the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Altona
• 2003: return of the tüdelband - Gebrüder Wolf Story
• 2007: These memories stay forever , life stories from Esther Bauer (New York), Esther Bejarano (Hamburg), Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (Bar Ilan / Israel), Schlomo Schwarzschild (Haifa), approx. 4 hours
• 2009: Off to Rio - The Guggenheim Files
• 2013: sound in the silence

Web links

• Jens Huckeriede in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jens Huckeriede at sternipark.de (PDF file)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ paint against oblivion. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 3, 1995 (PDF file)  
2. ↑ History of an Expulsion. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 25, 2010.
3. ↑ Just ask straight away. taz , June 24, 2014.
4. ↑ In court: The dispute over the kilowatt hour. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Hamburger Abendblatt, September 26, 1985.