chezweitz museal and urban scenography

Never Walk Alone ­ Jewish identities in sports

Never Walk Alone ­ Jewish identities in sports

Jüdisches Museum München
From 22 February 2017 to 7 January 2018

Since the mid-19th cen­tu­ry, enthu­si­asm for sport in Ger­man soci­ety grew inex­orably. The idea of​a mod­ern, healthy, and well-formed body was close­ly linked to ath­let­ic fit­ness and dis­ci­pline. Those who trained suf­fi­cient­ly could gain recog­ni­tion through phys­i­cal achieve­ment. This devel­op­ment also offered Ger­mans of Jew­ish descent many oppor­tu­ni­ties for social inte­gra­tion and social advance­ment. Ath­letes of Jew­ish descent excelled in gym­nas­tics and fenc­ing, as well as in swim­ming, moun­taineer­ing, ten­nis, soc­cer, and box­ing. What bet­ter place for sports to show­case this than a stadium?

For the exhi­bi­tion curat­ed by Jut­ta Fleck­en­stein and her ded­i­cat­ed team at the Jüdis­ches Muse­um München, right in the heart of the city, chezweitz has now dared to design a sta­di­um with a stun­ning play­ing field, stun­ning spec­ta­tor stands, and infor­ma­tion-rich sta­di­um cat­a­combs. Vis­i­tors are chal­lenged by dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, find­ing them­selves in an over­sized foos­ball table, then in the posi­tion of an ath­lete in the sta­di­um. Which Ulm design­er, with his ground­break­ing 1972 design, also inspired the CI of this exhi­bi­tion? Some may have guessed, but only a vis­it will tru­ly reveal the secret of this sport­ing experience.

Scenography
chezweitz GmbH, Berlin Dr. Sonja Beeck and Detlef Weitz
with Morten Ohlsen (Project management), Julia Volkmar (Art Direktion) Marco Pelz, Theresa Peter (Designteam) Patricia Schon (Audio-dramaturgy)
Curators
Jutta Fleckenstein in cooperation with
Lisa-Maria Tillian-Fink and Lilian Harlander
Production
Sabine Menges with Thomas Sensburg (Jüdisches Museum München)
Adunic Deutschland GmbH
PPS. Imaging GmbH Dresden
HORNCOLOR Multimedia GmbH
Studio Bosco
Stefan Hurtig, Sehen & Zeigen
Photos
Franz Kimmel