VHS offers multimedia presentation of a Jewish poet
Tuesday, 16 April, 7 to 8.30 p.m., TIETZ event hall
On Tuesday, 16 April, from 7 to 8.30 pm, the author Uwe von Seltmann will present the life and work of the Krakow poet Mordechai Gebirtig at the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre. He will provide an insight into songs, photos, contemporary documents and facsimiles from the richly illustrated biography "Es brennt. Mordechai Gebirtig - Father of the Yiddish Song". The event will take place in the TIETZ event hall. Admission is free.
The book is the first German-language biography and a pioneering work against forgetting. Mordechai Gebirtig (1877 - 1942) was a Krakow carpenter and Yiddish poet. He wrote numerous socially critical texts, which he dedicated to the little people of his neighbourhood. Many of his songs have been translated into German for the first time for this book. Author Uwe von Seltmann has compiled the material from archives in Europe, Israel and the USA.
The author Uwe von Seltmann has been living in Krakow since 2007 as a freelance journalist, documentary film-maker and researcher. Over the past 15 years, he has presented the results of his research in books, lectures, panel discussions and film screenings in Europe, Israel and the USA. He is the director and co-producer of the Yiddish documentary film "Boris Dorfman - A mentsh" (2014).
This event is a cooperation between weiterdenken - Heinrich Böll Foundation Saxony and the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre.