Reading with Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg on 10.11. as part of the "Days of Exile"
Reading with Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg on 10.11. as part of the "Days of Exile"
"I've never met a Jew":
Most Jews have heard this sentence from their non-Jewish fellow citizens.
In his book of the same name, the actor and Spiegel bestselling author Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg counters foreignness and ignorance with current life stories that tell of the diversity of Jewish life in Germany.
About Dagmar, who applies for the police force behind her Jewish father's back; about Marina, who came to Germany from the former USSR and is only confronted with her family's religious past here; and about David, the jazz musician from New York who discovers the "most Jewish city" in Germany in Berlin. There is the Jewish German army doctor who deliberately wears a kippah even when on duty and the research assistant at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center who derives his Jewish faith from mathematics, and the stories of people who converted to Judaism of their own free will are told. The author interweaves all these stories of the everyday lives of Jews living in Germany, their stories and experiences, their hopes and the threats posed by rising anti-Semitism with explanations of symbols, religious practice and history.
Anyone who has read Haase-Hindenberg's panorama of Jewish life, who has come close to the people through his portraits, will no longer claim: "I've never met a Jew before."
GERHARD HAASE-HINDENBERG is a trained actor and was seen as underworld type Stullen-Paul in Dieter Wedel's six-part film "König von St. Pauli" and starred alongside Tom Cruise as Reichsfeldmarschall Göring in the Hollywood film "Operation Valkyrie". In March 2024, he was seen in the ARD six-part KAFKA in the role of the father of Kafka's friend Max Brod. He also worked for many years as an author for television and radio formats and as a journalist (including for Die Welt/Welt am Sonntag, Die ZEIT and daily newspapers). He has been an author for the Jüdische Allgemeine for several years. Haase-Hindenberg has written more than ten narrative non-fiction books, including "Der Mann, der die Mauer öffnet", the literary basis for the award-winning TV film "Bornholmer Straße" and the social report "Sex im Kopf", which was on the Spiegel bestseller list for several weeks.
The reading will take place on 10.11.2025 at 19:00 in the auditorium of the Schelfschule, Puschkinstraße 13, 19055 Schwerin.
Admission is free.
Registration is requested at: info-vhs@schwerin.de or by telephone on: 0385-59127-19 / -20.
An event as part of the "Days of Exile". Supported by the Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation.
