Mirjam Wenzel

Professor Mirjam Wenzel studied literature, political science, and theatre in Berlin and Tel Aviv, earning her doctorate with a dissertation on Holocaust discourse in 1960s Germany. She has authored and co-edited numerous works on German-Jewish art and cultural history, with publications on cultural theory, aesthetics, museology, and Holocaust representations in visual arts.

From 2007 to 2015, she led the media department at the Jewish Museum Berlin, becoming an expert in digital museum transformation. Since 2016, she has directed the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and has been an honorary professor at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2019. She also served as a visiting professor at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the 2020/21 winter semester.

At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2024, Mirjam Wenzel will join the panel "We need to talk!" on Monday 11 November.

 

Miranda Stearn
Miranda Stearn

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