Foundation Jewish Museum Berlin

Four Exhibition curators in project "New Permanent Exhibition"

The Jewish Museum Berlin has been among the outstanding institutions on the European museum landscape since its opening in 2001. The museum’s exhibitions, permanent collection, events, and educational work make it a lively place of reflection on Jewish history and culture in Germany. Its Academy was founded in 2012 and is dedicated to social and political issues.

The Jewish Museum Berlin

– a foundation regulated by public law –

is looking to employ for the design, academic research, and development of its new permanent exhibition on the history and culture of Jews in Germany from its beginnings to the present day (opening in 2019)

four exhibition curators

for the “New Permanent Exhibition” project

salary group 13 (TVöD), full-time (39 hours per week), position limited until 31 March 2019

from 1 July 2015

In the new permanent exhibition, we place particular importance on addressing the requirements of our diverse audience, on contemporary forms of presentation, on emphasizing the interweavement of Judaism with other cultures and religions, on the variety of the themes and objects presented, as well as on strengthening the link to the present wherever appropriate. Moreover, knowledge about the current state of research and interest in interdisciplinary questions and methods are important, particularly with regard to cultural and sociohistorical perspectives. We place special emphasis on knowledge of the visual evidence of the respective historical epochs.

The four positions concerned are:

an exhibition curator

with a primary focus on the 15^th to the 18^th century

(Ref. 9/2015)

an exhibition curator

with a primary focus on the 18^th to the 20^th century

(Ref. 10/2015)

an exhibition curator

with a primary focus on the Jewish religion

(Ref. 11/2015)

an exhibition curator

with a primary focus on “the reaction of German Jews to Nazi extermination antisemitism”

(Ref. 12/2015)

For details on the responsibilities and requirements for each of the four positions, please see:

 http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/06-News/01-jobopportunities_2.php

The Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation ensures the equality of women and men in accordance with the German Equal Opportunities Act.

Disabled applicants will be given preferential treatment if qualifications and personal suitability are equal.

Applications with the usual documents and the relevant reference number, which we are happy to receive in electronic form, should reach us by 15 May 2015 (according to the internal entry stamp) at:

Jewish Museum Berlin Foundation, Personnel Department, Ms Kannegießer, Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin

Email: m.kannegiesser@jmberlin.de

Please note that the application documents submitted will not be returned. We thus ask you to only send copies without an application folder. The documents will be kept for two months after the application procedure and then destroyed.

For further details about the positions, please contact Ms Krüger on tel. +49 (0)30 25993 311. For further information on the application procedure, please contact Ms Kannegießer on tel. +49(0)30 25993 370.