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VORTRAG: „IHRER SOLLTE NICHT GEDACHT WERDEN“
LECTURE: “YOU SHOULD NOT BE REMEMBERED”
Event by: Mendelssohn-Remise
Location: Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Jägerstraße 51, Berlin - Mitte
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LECTURE
On “failure” in collective memory: How
successful families remember their black sheep – e.g. B. the Mendelssohns. Two black sheep among Moses Mendelssohn's descendants: the revolutionary, convict and exile Arnold Mendelssohn (1817 - 1854) and his aunt Brendel / Dorothea Schlegel, née Veit, née Mendelssohn (1764 - 1839) are at the center of the lecture.
SPEAKER:
Thomas Lackmann, member and deputy chairman of the Mendelssohn Society. After studying theology in Fulda and Augsburg, he was an editor at the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” in the features section and in the Berlin section from 1991 to 2018. In 2004 Lackmann was artistic director of the Jewish Cultural Days in Berlin. Since 2018 he has been working as a freelance journalist, exhibition organizer and historian and runs the “Office for Culture/History”.
His publications include The Happiness of the Mendelssohns (new edition 2015), My Father's Son. Biographical study of Abraham Mendelssohn (2008), Jewrassic Park. How do you build (not) a Jewish Museum in Berlin (2000), Odessa. The city and its dream. A declaration of love from Berlin. With Joachim Schlör and Juri Ginsburg (1999).
🎟️ ENTRY
Free - donations are welcome.
📩 REGISTRATION BY:
Email: ✉️ [email protected]
Phone: ☎️ +49 30 817047 26
PLACE AND DAY
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Mendelssohn-Remise, Jägerstr. 51, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
📸 Pictures: Arnold Mendelssohn (1817 - 1854), the revolutionary, convict and exile and his aunt Brendel / Dorothea Schlegel, née Veit, née Mendelssohn (1764 - 1839)
On “failure” in collective memory: How
successful families remember their black sheep – e.g. B. the Mendelssohns. Two black sheep among Moses Mendelssohn's descendants: the revolutionary, convict and exile Arnold Mendelssohn (1817 - 1854) and his aunt Brendel / Dorothea Schlegel, née Veit, née Mendelssohn (1764 - 1839) are at the center of the lecture.
SPEAKER:
Thomas Lackmann, member and deputy chairman of the Mendelssohn Society. After studying theology in Fulda and Augsburg, he was an editor at the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” in the features section and in the Berlin section from 1991 to 2018. In 2004 Lackmann was artistic director of the Jewish Cultural Days in Berlin. Since 2018 he has been working as a freelance journalist, exhibition organizer and historian and runs the “Office for Culture/History”.
His publications include The Happiness of the Mendelssohns (new edition 2015), My Father's Son. Biographical study of Abraham Mendelssohn (2008), Jewrassic Park. How do you build (not) a Jewish Museum in Berlin (2000), Odessa. The city and its dream. A declaration of love from Berlin. With Joachim Schlör and Juri Ginsburg (1999).
🎟️ ENTRY
Free - donations are welcome.
📩 REGISTRATION BY:
Email: ✉️ [email protected]
Phone: ☎️ +49 30 817047 26
PLACE AND DAY
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Mendelssohn-Remise, Jägerstr. 51, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
📸 Pictures: Arnold Mendelssohn (1817 - 1854), the revolutionary, convict and exile and his aunt Brendel / Dorothea Schlegel, née Veit, née Mendelssohn (1764 - 1839)