Concert-reading “What is Jewish Life?” – Kickoff of the accompanying course “Jewish Daily Life in Germany: Between Civil Rights, Anti-Semitism, and #NeverAgain”

A public concert-reading featuring Alexander Estis and Tatjana Davis on April 15, 2026, will kick off the accompanying course “Jewish Daily Life in Germany: Between Civil Rights, Anti-Semitism, and #NeverAgain,” which begins in the summer semester of 2026 at TUD. The author and journalist Alexander Estis, who served as Dresden’s City Writer in 2025, will read from his works. In many of her compositions, musician Tatjana Davis explores the theme “What is Jewish life?” The concert-reading starts at 6:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall ABS/0E11/H (August-Bebel-Straße 20, 01219 Dresden).

On April 22, 2026, there will also be a lecture by Esther Kontarsky on the topic “Phoenix from the Ashes? An Examination of Jewish Continuity and Discontinuity in Germany after 1945” (registration required).

Both events are open to the public and are aimed at both TUD members and external guests. With both events, the TUD is also contributing to “TACHELES – Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony.”

About the accomanying course:

Starting in the summer semester of 2026, the faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences as TU Dresden is offering a new accompanying course, "Jewish Everyday Life in Germany. Between Civil Rights, Antisemitism and #neveragain", under the direction of Prof. Dr. Maria Häusl. The course is an interdisciplinary cooperation between various chairs of the faculty and Jewish institutions and communities, which aims to give students who are in teacher training at TU Dresden a glimpse into the diversity of Jewish life in Germany and to prepare them to prevent antisemitism in educational contexts and in everyday life.