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Scattered origins from America via Tunisia, Israel and Germany 

We would like to thank RomaTrial e.V. for the nice invitation to expand their program in the Grüner Salon of the Volksbühne with ours. We are very much looking forward to the cooperation and the new location as well as to our first guests, Dana Vowinkel and Benjamin Fischer, on the topic of Jewish identity in the third generation.

Jewish is one who has a Jewish mother. This was determined by Jewish scholars around the 2nd century in Judea and Palestine. The mix of religion and identity has long been explosive and the discourse about it is polemical. What is it like to grow up with a Jewish and a non-Jewish parent? Is the knowledge that one is Jewish irritated by the feeling that one is not quite one, of somehow „feeling wrong“? How does the family narrative change when you talk about it in public? Why do Jews owe their history to the German public at all? Is it different for the Jewess than for the Jew? What possibilities and what political potential does it open up to experience, think and discuss from a double perspective?

Dana Vowinckel, born in Berlin in 1996, lives there. Studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse and Cambridge. Her debut novel Gewässer im Ziplock will be published this year by Suhrkamp Verlag. An excerpt from it was awarded the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the Bachmann Competition 2021.

Benjamin Fischer, born in 1990, lives in Berlin. He studied politics and law in Hamburg and is program manager of the Alfred Landecker Foundation with a focus on digital initiatives and projects aimed at the younger generation. He is on the board of the World Jewish Museum, the Muslim Jewish Interfaith Coalition and several European initiatives.