Yohana R. Hirschfeld

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Yohana Rahel Hirschfeld is a German painter and video artist .

Life

Hirschfeld went to the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium in Bonn . After graduating from high school, she studied philosophy , German studies (focus on theater and media) and history at the University of Hamburg . After completing his studies, assistant director at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (artistic director Tom Stromberg ). She then received artistic training at the Kalkreuter Art School in Hamburg. She is married to the Hamburg doctor and Green politician Peter Zamory . Hirschfeld lives as a freelance artist in Hamburg-Ottensen .

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Yohana Hirschfeld first appeared in public on November 9, 2008 with her video installation on Hamburg's Rathausmarkt to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the November pogrom of 1938 . The video installation showed an endless loop with original film recordings and photos of the pogrom, which were projected onto the back of the Barlach stele on the Kleine Alster. In addition, the row of houses on the Alsterarkaden on the other side of the Kleiner Alster - the central target of the looting and abuse of its Jewish owners during the pogrom night - was also shown by distorting the projection with the film images. Introductory contributions to the video installation were made by the Hamburg author Peggy Parnass and the publicist and politician Freimut Duve . In 2009, Hirschfeld showed a light and image installation on the same topic on Joseph-Carlebach-Platz in the Grindelviertel (together with the light artist Michael Batz ) on behalf of the Jewish community in Hamburg . Since 2008, Hirschfeld has been working on a graphic novel about the conflict over the former Jewish cemetery in Altona-Ottensen in 1992.

In December 2008, Hirschfeld was co-founder of the “Kunsthaus Finkels, Jüdischer Kulturverein eV” and has been a volunteer manager for the non-profit association ever since. In 2009 the Kunsthaus Finkels organized the first European Day of Jewish Culture in Hamburg on the subject of "Jewish customs and rites". In 2010 the association organized the festival in Hamburg from August 31st. - September 5, 2010. The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Charlotte Knobloch, and the President of the Authority for Culture and Media , Reinhard Stuth, supervised the "European Day of Jewish Culture" in Hamburg .

  • Video installation on the 70th anniversary of the November pogrom 1938 - Rathausmarkt Hamburg

  • Exhibition "Destroyed Me", Berlin 2009

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  • Exhibition brochure for the exhibition "DESTROYED ME", Berlin 2009
  • Hamburger Abendblatt from November 12, 2008, August 25, 2010 and August 31, 2010
  • WELT feature section from August 25, 2010

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SURNAME Hirschfeld, Yohana R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschfeld, Yohana Rahel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century