For the fourth summer running – this year from 14 May to 13 September – the Museum Garden at the Jewish Museum Berlin will be transformed into a stage for readings, concerts, chess tournaments and much more. The Cultural Summer is a highlight of the Jewish Museum’s annual calendar and this year – besides the old-time favorites such as readings by famous actresses and Jazz in the Garden – it focuses on Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and football.

Football-related events include a multi-cultural football tournament for Berlin primary school children, an evening in honor of Hans Rosenthal as well as one with the popular football commentator Marcel Reif, who will read passages from historical sports pages. Further highlights are readings by the actresses Iris Berben, Hannelore Elsner, and Brigitte Grothum. The last weekend in May focuses on Sigmund Freud and the couch while in June, Berlin’s chess elite will gather in the Museum Garden. Jazz fans can look forward to the concert with the old master of swing, Coco Schumann, who will play jazz standards from Lester Young to Antonio Carlos Jobim with his quartet. As in summers past, the Museum Garden becomes at times a picnic meadow, at others a concert hall, and at others still the perfect spot for lounging on the deck-chairs provided.

The Jewish Museum Berlin cordially invites you to attend the festive opening of the fourth Cultural Summer which will kick off with the installation "Well-Deserved Yet Still Forgotten. Jews in German Football." Following this, Oriental specialties prepared by Liebermann’s Restaurant can be enjoyed to live music by the "Kings of Klezmer" – the Rosenthal & Ginzburg duo.

A colorful program including a Museum rally and T-shirt printing will be on offer from noon to 6 pm to celebrate the opening of the new "Children’s Island" in the permanent exhibition. Children under 12 enjoy free entrance on this day.
When: 14 May 2006, 6 pm (from noon for our young visitors)
Where: Museum Garden
Entrance: 5 euro, reduced rate 2.50 euro
Ticket reservation (for non-journalists) on tel.: +49 (0)30259 93 567 or sommerprogramm@jmberlin.de

The Cultural Summer Program in Brief

Program Events Relating to the Football World Cup
"Well-Deserved Yet Still Forgotten. Jews in German Football"
Open-air installation
An eleven-person team made up of players, trainers, and trailblazers on a football field in the Museum Garden is reminiscent of the Jewish contribution to German football.
When: 14 May to 9 July 2006

Cultures Compete
The Jewish Museum Berlin is organizing a World-Cup style, multi-cultural football tournament for Berlin primary school children (D-Jugend) at the Galilei-Grundschule sports field opposite the Museum. Parallel to this, a training program for keen young footballers will be run by the Michael Rummenigge Football School in the Museum Garden.
When: 16 to 18 May from 10 am to 6 pm

Willy Meisl – King of Sport Journalists
Reading and talk by Marcel Reif and Erik Eggers
When: 23 May 2006, 7.30 pm

Quicker, higher, further…
Show-case Exhibition on the Jewish Sport Movement 1898-1938
The Maccabi sport movement began in Germany and brought with it not only a diverse club life but top international athletes and the Olympic Games in Germany. After 1933, these clubs were among the last places where Jews could be part of a protected community.
When: 1 June to 26 November 2006

Béla Guttmann. World History of Football in One Person
Talk by Detlev Claussen
When: 7 June 2006, 7.30 pm

Sports and Jewish Identity in the USA and Europe
Talk by Andrei S. Markovits
When: 13 June 2006, 7.30 pm

Two Lives in Germany
Hans Rosenthal – Berlin Jew, Football Enthusiast, and Entertainer
When: 28 June 2006, 7.30 pm

The Man Who Brought Football to Germany
Talk by Bernd-M. Beyer on Walther Bensemann, who professionalized German football following the American example.
When: 7 July 2006, 7.30 pm

Series of Readings
The popular series of readings by well-known German actresses is once more part of this year’s Cultural Summer Program
Brigitte Grothum reads from "Berliner Gesellschaft. Ein Sittenbild" (Berlin Society)
When: 20 August 2006, 8 pm
Hannelore Elsner reads from Thomas Mann’s "Lotte in Weimar"
When: 15 August 2006, 8 pm
Iris Berben reads from Heinrich Mann’s "Im Schlaraffenland"
When: date t. b. a.

Concerts
Coco Schumann Quartet
After the unforgettable Coco Schumann concerts of the past years, the old master of swing and jazz is of course on this year’s program too with "You’d be so nice to come home to…"
When: 8 June 2006, 8 pm

"Jazz in the Garden"
"Jazz in the Garden" will be held on every first Sunday of the summer months in the Museum Garden. Relax to the jazz sounds on the Museum Garden lawn and enjoy an oriental breakfast served in a picnic basket from Liebermann’s Restaurant.
When: Sundays on 4 June, 2 July, 6 August, and 3 September 2006, 11 am to 1 pm

Weekends
All about Freud
On the theme of its special exhibition "PSYCHOanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s 150th Birthday," the Jewish Museum Berlin is devoting a whole weekend program to the founder of psychoanalysis. We shall examine to what extent his teachings have permeated all areas of life or how psychoanalytical methods can throw new light on our experiences: It’s about football and literature, Freud’s love letters, and last but not least the couch.
When: 27 May and 28 May 2006, 11 am to 7 pm
Further information on the program on tel.: +49 (0)30 259 93 443

Chess Weekend
This June weekend, the Museum Garden once more becomes a meeting point for chess fans. The professionals will play for the National Chess Team Championships and the Berlin Junior Speed Chess Championships, while workshops, demonstration chess, and looking over the shoulders of the professionals will sharpen the skills of the rest.
When: 17 and 18 June 2006, 11 am to 7 pm

For further information and ticket reservations (for non-journalists), call tel.: +49 (0)30 259 93 319/-309 or mail sommerprogram@jmberlin.de

We would be pleased to send you press photographs of the Cultural Summer.