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Sunday, October 4, 2020, 11 a.m., Jewish Museum Hohenems

Exhibition Opening
The Last Europeans.
Jewish Perspectives on the Crises of an Idea
The Brunner Family. An Estate

The European imperative “Never Again!” is being challenged by many, also here in Austria. At the same time, Europe’s nationalists are discovering their own fantasy of the “Christian-Jewish Occident”—as a battle cry against immigration and integration. The values of the Enlightenment, which constituted the foundation of European rapprochement in the wake of the catastrophes of the 20th century, are reversed into their opposite and turned into means of isolation and exclusion. Against this background, the Jewish Museum Hohenems looks at Jewish individuals who, in the face of the destruction of Europe and the attempted extermination of European Jews in the 20th century, crossed national and cultural borders and once again vehemently demanded the universal validity of human rights. Based on their commitment to a united and peaceful Europe, this exhibition explores at the same time the threats that it is facing anew.

The Brunner Family. An Estate
An extensive donation to the Jewish Museum Hohenems enables a comparative view of a European century on the basis of individual and family history. Starting point for the exhibition “The Last Europeans” is the estate of Carlo Alberto Brunner, consisting of letters and documents, memorabilia and everyday objects from the Brunner family who left Hohenems for Trieste in the first half of the 19th century to contribute to the rapid development of the Habsburg Mediterranean metropolis. The family’s steep social and cultural ascent ended with Europe’s evolution into a continent of mutual hatred and in the devastation of two world wars, which scattered parts of the family throughout the world.

Curators
Michaela Feurstein-Prasser (Wien)
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Wien)
Hannes Sulzenbacher (Wien)
Project lead
Hanno Loewy (Hohenems)
Exhibition architecture
Martin Kohlbauer (Wien)
Exhibition design
atelier stecher, Roland Stecher, Thomas Matt (Götzis)
Kassegger und Partner, Günter Kassegger (Dornbirn)
Calligraphy
Gerhard Kohlbauer

Speakers
Manuela Cibulka, Hubert Dragaschnig, Timo Hampson, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Michael Köhlmeier, Hanno Loewy, Paul Milstein, Noah Scheiber, Brigitte Walk

Archive
Raphael Einetter, Anika Reichwald (Hohenems)
Education
Angelika Purin, Judith Niederklopfer-Würtinger, Claudia Klammer (Hohenems)
Public relations work
Birgit Sohler (Hohenems)
Translations
Lilian Dombrowski (Raanana)
Office
Gerlinde Fritz (Hohenems)

Production
Museom Service GmbH, Christian Chochola, Heinz Erdner, Stephan Troll (Wien)
Technical assistance
Dietmar Pöschko (Hohenems), Dietmar Pfanner (Andelsbuch)
tonwelt GmbH, Johannes Maibaum (Berlin)
AV-production
Milan Loewy (Wien)
Webmaster
Niko Hofinger, Innsbruck
Object Photography
Dietmar Walser
Printing
Elograph (Röthis)
Printing matters
Bucher Druck (Hohenems)
Plexiglasses
Martin Blenke (Hohenems)
Paint works
Malerwerkstätte Alfons Mathis (Hohenems)

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See the exhibition programme - in German

01
Opening in the Salomon Sulzer Saal
The curators Michaela Feurstein-Prasser, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek und Hannes Sulzenbache and Ariel Brunner

02
Speaker Aleida Assmann
(c) Dietmar Walser

03
Ariel Brunner
(c) Dietmar Walser

04
The exhibition team in front of the Jewish museum
(c) Dietmar Walser

05
Numbers of the victim of Europiean violance as introduction to the exhibition.
(c) Dietmar Walser

06
View into the exhibition
(c) Dietmar Walser

07
New reality: with mask in the exhibition
(c) Dietmar Walser

08
Was is Europe for you?
(c) Dietmar Walser

09
Family members of the Brunner family are presented here.
(c) Dietmar Walser