Collective biographies
Chapter 1 Bernd Sering Bernd is my friend and colleague for more than 20 years. He came to Israel from Bavaria in the beginning of the eighties, finished an MA In physics, got married to Dafna and they had 2 boys. The fact that Bernd came from Germany was never something that was on my mind. He belongs to the circle of people with whom I share what I consider the humanistic collage of Israeli biographies. Bernd's Hebrew manifests a deep understanding of the cultural diversity of the language and adds a unique layer to it. The German component of Bernd's biography is something I'm curious about not in the Jewish-German historical context, but in the context of my experimental art work, exploring unexpected biographical new connotations. In one of our discussions bernd spoke about the Bavarian accent/dialect as a diverse carrier of sociological hierarchy within the German language. This immediately took me to the Arab accent of my late beloved mother who spoke Hebrew with extra layers of Arab and French. I felt I should learn Bavarian, just the accent without the German. My first step in this project is to try to melt my Israeli Arab French biography with the Israeli Bavarian German biography of my good friend Bernd Sering. The basic framework is filmed interviews and editing of extra visual material. jerusalem
Collective biographies
Chapter 1 Bernd Sering Bernd is my friend and colleague for more than 20 years. He came to Israel from Bavaria in the beginning of the eighties, finished an MA In physics, got married to Dafna and they had 2 boys. The fact that Bernd came from Germany was never something that was on my mind. He belongs to the circle of people with whom I share what I consider the humanistic collage of Israeli biographies. Bernd's Hebrew manifests a deep understanding of the cultural diversity of the language and adds a unique layer to it. The German component of Bernd's biography is something I'm curious about not in the Jewish-German historical context, but in the context of my experimental art work, exploring unexpected biographical new connotations. In one of our discussions bernd spoke about the Bavarian accent/dialect as a diverse carrier of sociological hierarchy within the German language. This immediately took me to the Arab accent of my late beloved mother who spoke Hebrew with extra layers of Arab and French. I felt I should learn Bavarian, just the accent without the German. My first step in this project is to try to melt my Israeli Arab French biography with the Israeli Bavarian German biography of my good friend Bernd Sering. The basic framework is filmed interviews and editing of extra visual material. jerusalem