Ein Haufen Dollarscheine

Reading with Esther Dischereit

The woman with the flower-patterned dress finally rises from her bed. In the heat of the room, her past as a once hidden Jewish child wafts. The orthodox Jewish son calls his mother a closet jew. Goyish partners of the second-married survivors appropriate their "reparations", and finally the Russian rabbi also refuses to return the pre-war grave in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee.

"A Pile of Dollar Bills" is a crazy family scenario between Berlin, Chicago, Heppenheim, Rome and back again.

Esther Dischereit lives in Berlin. With "Joëmi's Table. Eine jüdische Geschichte" and "Übungen jüdisch zu sein" she became an important voice of the second generation after the Shoah in Germany.
She is represented in our exhibition "The Third Generation" with the sound installation "Do you think we will take Auschwitz with us into the next millennium?".

Moderation: Ulrike Heikaus

An event organized by the Jewish Museum Munich in cooperation with the Literaturhandlung and Maro Verlag as part of the exhibition "The Third Generation"