Mirjam Wenzel
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Mirjam Wenzel (* 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary scholar and has been the director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt since 2016 .
Life
Mirjam Wenzel is the daughter of the lawyer Joachim Wenzel and is married to the literary and media scholar Ole Frahm , member of the performance collective Ligna.
She studied general and comparative literature, theater, film and television studies as well as political science at the Free University of Berlin and Tel Aviv University . She then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She was involved in the edition of Siegfried Kracauer's works and wrote her dissertation on the German-language Holocaust discourse of the 1960s with the support of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Program . From 2007 to 2015, as a department head at the Jewish Museum Berlin , she was responsible for conveying Jewish history and culture in digital and printed media. Under her leadership, the Raphael Roth Learning Center was rebuilt and expanded, the museum's online strategy developed and numerous audio-visual installations and films made in and for exhibitions. Since then she has been considered an expert on questions of digital change in museums.
In January 2016 she succeeded Raphael Gross as director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, which will be fundamentally renewed under her leadership. In April 2019 she was appointed honorary professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main .
Mirjam Wenzel is the editor of books and exhibition catalogs on German-Jewish art and cultural history and has numerous articles and essays on cultural-theoretical, aesthetic and museological questions, on critical theory , in particular on Siegfried Kracauer , Theodor W. Adorno and Hannah Arendt , to represent the Holocaust in fine arts, photography and film as well as on Jewish culture in the past and present. Your book Judgment and Memory (Göttingen 2009) has received several reviews.
In addition to her academic work, she worked as a freelance exhibition curator. Among other things, she was artistic director of the media art festival novalog - new media experiences (Berlin / Tel Aviv 2001) in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv and co-curator of the exhibitions Wonderyears. About the role of the Shoah and National Socialism in today's Israeli society (Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 2003) and local history. 30 artists look at Germany (Jewish Museum Berlin 2011/12).
Mirjam Wenzel is u. a. Member of the scientific advisory board of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , the Council for Third Mission at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Villigster Research Forum on National Socialism, Racism and Anti-Semitism .
Fonts
- Maus, Toys and Him. Contemporary Fine Art as a Reflection on the Reception of History. In: Martin Davies, Chris Szejnmann (Eds.): How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives . London 2006, pp. 229-246.
- Lyotard in conflict with Adorno's refusal: reflections on Auschwitz and legal proceedings to ›come to terms with the past‹. In: Sarah Speck, Volker Weiß (ed.): Relationships of rule and discourses of rule? Münster 2007, pp. 50-72.
- Eichmann, Arendt and the theater in Jerusalem. On the semantics of theater in the reception of the Eichmann process. In: HannahArendt.net. Political Thought Journal. 6, 2011, No. 1/2, (read online) .
- On waiting and the violence of the coming: The Messiah in the history of ideas of the 20th century. In: JMB Journal. 9, 2013, pp. 22-26, (read online) .
- Of letters, dreams and vestibules: Siegfried Kracauer's ›Close Up Perspective‹. In: Nicolas Berg, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Textschehre. Literary studies and literary knowledge in the area of critical theory . Leipzig 2014, pp. 91–101.
- From show to pleasure: on the deconstruction of photography in Boris Lurie's collages. In: Jewish Museum Berlin (ed.): No compromises! The art of Boris Lurie . Berlin 2016, pp. 144–153. (PDF)
- Judgment and memory. The German-speaking Holocaust Discourse of the Sixties . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0569-4 .
- with Fritz Backhaus, Raphael Gross and Sabine Kößling (eds.): The Frankfurter Judengasse. Catalog for the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. History, politics, culture . CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68987-1 .
- with Erik Riedel (Ed.), Ludwig Meidner. Expressionism, Ecstasy, Exile - Expressionism, Ecstasy, Exile . Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7861-2784-0 .
- with Benno Hafeneger, Türkan Kanbicak (ed.), AntiAnti - Museum goes School. A cultural education program to prevent extremism at vocational schools . Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-7344-0632-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mirjam Wenzel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
- Mirjam Wenzel on the occasion of the appointment as honorary professor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ligna performance collective
- ^ Siegfried Kracauer. Works. Nine volumes, Suhrkamp
- ↑ Mirjam Wenzel's biography
- ^ Reviews on H-Soz-Kult , literaturkritik.de
- ↑ Local history exhibition on the website of the Jewish Museum Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenceslaus, Miriam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |