The Lift
Category: Berlin stories
Box Tengor 54/2 back in Berlin, October 2014
Screen shots of Box taking photos @ the sites, and the photo she took
Frieda’s birthday 7.7.1892
Frieda (age 2?) and her elder brother Fritz, c. 1894
Frieda (age 3?) with her elder brother Fritz, c. 1895?
Frieda and her brothers. Frieda was born just a few days before Walter Benjamin (15.7.1892). While reading Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood around 1900”, I read also on my grandmother’s childhood There are childhood photos of Benjamin and his siblings taken at the very same “Globus Atelier” in Berlin. http://www.historia-viva.net/en/grafiken/03_5_wb_geschwister.jpg
Frieda at 10, her photo on postcard, 1902. Postcard from her brother Fritz.
Frieda Jacobsohn (center) with fellow art students, 1910s
Frieda and her brothers and their mother, Ernestine
Frieda and her brothers with parents, before 1915
Self portrait, Frieda Jacobsohn, before 1915
Ramot Hashavim, Israel
Clinic signs, Tel-Aviv
Frieda and Fritz Mayer, c. 1920
Ktuba – Jewish marriage document, 14.10.1920
Verein Jüdischer Studenten, Berlin im K.J.V. Invitation for foundation celebration, 27.6.1920
October 1933, before leaving Berlin to Palestine
Letter from Fritz to Frieda on her first birthday in Tel Aviv, 1934
Letter from Fritz to Frieda for their 17th anniversary.
Shmuel’s 13th birthday, 1937, Tel-Aviv.
1957. Grandmother Frieda, my mother and I.
Silent creative, nourishing communication.
Brandenburger Tor
Watching movie in Tel Aviv, 2016, evokes Frieda’s memories of Berlin 1933
Prenzlauer Str. 46, Berlin
Dr. Fritz Mayer, Dermatology clinic. Was also residence of the family until c. 1930.
Prenzlauer Str. 46 (today Karl-Libknecht-Str.) before corner Wadzeck Str. , in Berlin map, 1932. After the law against Jewish physicians was published (31.3.1933), and “Jude” was written on Dr. Fritz Mayer’s clinic, the family (at that time living in Baumeisterstr. 1, Fridenau) left Germany, to Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine at that time). Here, at the same corner in 2010: building site of RAMADA Hotel, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 32, (Now: H2 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz).
Watch video on finding my grandfather’s medical clinic until 1933 (2010. HEB. ENG sub-titles will be added in future): HighRes video or LowRes video
Ramada Hotel (H2 Hotel), Berlin. 2015.
What Frieda saw in Weimar years: reflections/memories, Tel Aviv, 2016
Frieda watches movie. Yom Hashoa, 5.5.2016: From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)
http://www.stih-schnock.de/remembrance
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Postcard created in July 2015, in collaboration with Z., who drew the map of our walk through the Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin, October 2014.
Frieda
Frieda is this 1929~ Box Camera at the bottom right corner.
She is named after the woman in this photo: Berlin-born photographer Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn, whom she accompanied during the last years before forced to leave Berlin in 1933, through her voyage to Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, and finding her way there.
In 2009 many of the photos she took were exhibited in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn was my grandmother.
Since October 2014, Frieda’s Box Camera takes me to see the world through her eyes. Experiences from long ago and other lands are still stored in her memory. She finds and shows me new layers of experience, in those same places –– in my hometown Tel Aviv, in Frieda’s hometown Berlin, and some new ones. Watch video here.
She senses times and spaces.
She offers images as a way of communication throughout experiences.
Frieda’s reminder of Berlin. Reaching her grand daughter through time.
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