Nirit Sommerfeld

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Nirit Sommerfeld , in Hebrew נירית זומרפלד(born on September 10, 1961 in Eilat ) is a German - Israeli actress and singer . She is involved in the association “ Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians ”.

Childhood, youth and family

Sommerfeld spent her early childhood in a family of European and Oriental Jews in Israel and in the meantime in East Africa , where her parents worked as hoteliers. Her father Rolf had emigrated to Palestine as a young German-Jewish Holocaust survivor ; Her grandfather Julius, murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940, was a wealthy businessman in Chemnitz who had been awarded the Iron Cross as an officer in World War I. Her mother's family, originally from Morocco , had lived in Palestine for several generations, and her grandmother's mother tongue was Arabic. Since she was nine years old, Nirit Sommerfeld grew up in Germany.

Sommerfeld lives near Munich, is married and has two daughters.

education and profession

After training to be an actor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg , she worked as a freelance actress for almost three decades. In addition to roles in various television productions, she was mostly seen on stage. From 2007 to 2009 she lived and worked with her family in Tel Aviv , but then returned to Germany. From 2013 to 2015 Sommerfeld headed the “Kleine Theater Haar” for a year and a half as an employee of the Social Psychiatric Center, which runs the cultural institution. In addition to acting, she also appears as a singer, especially with the Klezmer band Klezmorim , which she co-founded in 1999 and named after the new orchestra Shlomo Geistreich .

Political commitment

Since 2010 she has also appeared in a duo with Munich-based author Linda Benedikt with the political music cabaret Reality Check , which deals with the Middle East conflict in Israel. She has also been organizing group trips to Israel and Palestine since 2010.

In 2016, Sommerfeld co-founded the Association for the Ending of Israeli Occupation (BIB) (today the Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians ) and was its managing director until mid-2018.

Filmography

Stage programs

  • Salam Shalom (since 2005), with Mouna Sabbagh (dance) and the Klezmorim
  • KlezMeshugge (since 2006), with the Klezmorim
  • Under your white stars (since 2006) with the klezmorim
  • Yiddish Christmas (since 2009), with the Klezmorim and orchestras Shlomo Geistreich and Martin Umbach (as narrator)
  • Reality Check (since 2010), with Linda Benedikt
  • Not quite kosher! (since 2016), with the Shlomo Geistreich orchestra

Publications (selection)

  • Klezmorim: Klezmeshugge (CD, content ), Elite Special. 2002
  • Satsooma: Let's enter the garden. Klezlounge (CD, content ), Elite Special; Phonag Zurich 2006
  • And yes, I am emotional! (Booklet 24 pages), Allitera Verlag, Munich 2014 ISBN 3-86906-702-0
  • Yiddish Christmas (double CD), label: HOFA, EAN 4020796427801

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Yiddish Christmas." Website of the German-Israeli Society , undated, accessed on September 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Friedrich C. Burschel: The fight for the house of the lost. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 27, 1997, p. 3
  3. ↑ a b c Katrin Diehl: The Principal. In: Jüdische Allgemeine from October 10, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2018
  4. ↑ Out of concern and deep love for Israel. In: Pfaffenhofener Kurier from June 20, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2018
  5. ↑ Nirit Sommerfeld leaves the Small Theater in Haar. In: Münchner Merkur of May 11, 2015, accessed on September 25, 2018
  6. ↑ Thorsten Rienth: Between love and frustration. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 31, 2012, p. R4 (Ebersberg)
  7. ^ Nirit Sommerfeld / Linda Benedikt: Reality Check. Satire about real life in the Holy Land. Event announcement of the association “ Against Forgetting - For Democracy ” for February 28, 2014, accessed on September 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Ways to live together , event information in Pfaffenhofener Kurier from June 6, 2018
  9. ^ Jakob Wetzel: Benefit concert between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ Can be heard in the network of the Swiss National Sound Archives .
personal data
SURNAME Sommerfeld, Nirit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES נירית זומרפלד
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli actress, singer and activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Eilat