During the entire season, from April 11th to November 9th, 2025, the former St. Pölten Synagogue will present the temporary exhibition “I am an Austrian!” in the upper women’s gallery. The photographer Kurt Bardos (1914 Brno – 1944 last trace of Auschwitz)”. It is dedicated to the photographer and his family: their story, shaped by the Shoah, the communist dictatorship and several migrations, is told from the perspective of his sister Ilse. Martha Keil, curator of the exhibition and scientific director of the house, compares Kurt Bardo’s artistic photos with family memories.
“His photos, which were found again in an almost miraculous way, show the creative way in which Bardos interpreted the stylistic devices of the new objectivity and translated them into his precisely composed images,” says Martha Keil, describing the work of Kurt Bardos and emphasizing: “In addition to the Photos and video interviews with family members will also feature some objects from the family’s possessions, which, amazingly, are still preserved today despite the breaks and changes in location.”
The Jewish Weekends – Festival of Jewish Music – will take place again on two weekends in 2025: this time from May 16th to 18th and 24th to 25th, 2025. Under the title “Sepharad – Jewish Spain”, prominent artists such as the Ensemble Al’Fado from Lisbon and the Spanish singer Ana Alcaide, performed in Austria for the first time. In the impressive ambience of the synagogue room, they present one of the great traditions of Jewish music: that of the Sephardic Jews who live on the Iberian Peninsula and, since their expulsion in 1492, also around the Mediterranean and in worldwide exile.
Festival curator and music journalist Johann Kneihs also complements the thematic focus with concerts by local artists. The vocal ensemble Company of Music as well as Aliosha Biz and Shmuel Barzilai will also be heard. For the first time there will also be a children’s concert: “Tschiribim, Tschiribam – Klezmer for Children” with Marko Simsa and the duo Klezmer Reloaded. Program details and advance ticket sales will follow from February 2025. Information about all other events, guided tours, concerts, lectures and presentations can be found at www.ehemalige-synagoge.at
For further information, contact Maren Sacherer, BA, Public Relations & Communication Museum Lower Austria, email maren.sacherer@museumnoe.at, email presse@ehemalige-synagoge.at, cell phone +43 664 60 499 918, www.museumnoe.at
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