Nea Weissberg

Nea Weissberg (born December 17, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German writer and publicist .

Life

In 1993, Nea Weissberg founded the Lichtig-Verlag, which is still in existence today, in Berlin, which primarily stocks Jewish literature and sophisticated Jewish wall calendars.

Her particular concern as a publisher is promoting dialogue between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans.

Works

• The stupid foot wants to carry me to Germany. A dispute about Germany. Conversations Poems Briefe , Berlin without a year (1991; as publisher)
• Now where? Look inside from the outside. Conversations poems letters. What is actually "Jewish" and what is "German"? , Berlin 1993 (as publisher)
• When Jews were robbed of everything, even their lives. On the aftermath of National Socialist destruction. Conversations with descendants of perpetrators and victims , Berlin 1996 (as publisher)
• Heinrich Richard Brinn (1874-1944). Factory owner-art collector front-line fighters. Documentation of an aryanization , Berlin 2002 (together with Thomas Irmer)
• "What I always wanted to say to the Jews ...". Contributions and discussions , Berlin 2002 (as publisher)
• Happiness hugged me. A letter novel , Berlin 2008 (as an author under the pseudonym Nejusch , the name of her grandmother)
• The hand of Miriam , Berlin 2009 (as author, also under the pseudonym Nejusch )
• Shabbat ha-Malka - Queen of the Jontef days. A story about the Shabbat , Lichtig Verlag, Berlin 2010 (together with Jalda Rebling )
• My first Jewish picture book , Lichtig Verlag, Berlin 2012.

Jewish art calendar

• Memory is like withering leaves in autumn. Kazimiers , the Jewish quarter in Krakow , 5753 = 1992/1993, Berlin 1992
• Palestine - Erez Israel , 5754 = 1993/1994, Berlin 1993 (with a short story by Edgar Hilsenrath )
• Do you know what a Jekke is? , 5755 = 1994/1995, Berlin 1994 (with contributions by Ada Brodsky and Herbert Freeden )
• Jewish ex-libris , 5756 = 1995/1996, Berlin 1995
• "If you want, it's not a fairy tale." 100 years of Zionism , 5757 = 1996/1997, Berlin 1996
• "Jewish painters of the twenties." Lou Albert-Lasard , Grete Krakauer, Lotte Laserstein , Anne Ratkowski, Lene Schneider-Kainer , 5758 = 1997/1998, Berlin 1997
• "I am a restless soul." Homage to the painter Lene Schneider-Kainer , 5759 = 1998/1999, Berlin 1998
• "Pictures from Jewish life - as it once was." Jewish life in Europe in the middle of the last century in copperplate engravings , 5760 = 1999/2000, Berlin 1999
• "A harmony in green." Jewish artists of the twenties and thirties , 5761 = 2000/2001, Berlin 2000
• "By learning Jewish ..." Jewish artists of the twenties and thirties , 5762 = 2001/2002, Berlin 2001 (preface by Michel Friedman )
• Lesser Ury - Biblical Figures , 5763 = 2002/2003, Berlin 2002
• "Have sun in my heart." Homage to the bookplate artist and graphic artist Michel Fingesten , 5764 = 2003/2004, Berlin 2003
• "Two souls and one thought ..." Michel Fingesten. From his graphic work , 5765 = 2004/2005, Berlin 2004

Web links

• Lichtig-Verlag website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Lichtig" from Yiddish = "bright" in the sense of "getting brighter", drawing hope, consciously chosen in view of the sometimes difficult and sad topics.
2. ↑ The production of calendars was discontinued in 2004 for cost reasons.
3. ↑ In the novel she reports for the first time about herself, about how the Shoah shaped her own life. She writes that she is breaking a taboo by telling “the Germans” about herself, her parents, her siblings, something that was strictly forbidden, she tells of a Jewish childhood in West Berlin after the war. Nejusch's parents, who come from Poland, survived the Shoah and met in Poland after the war. The first son was born in Berlin-Schlachtensee, in a DP camp. The book goes on to describe how the parents came to Berlin, why they got stuck here and didn't leave Germany. The tone of her letters fluctuates between defiance, sadness and bitter wit.