The David Friedmann Press Coverage Survey

The collection focuses on David Friedmann’s press career in Germany before the Holocaust. It holds digital images of portraits and drawings, discovered by Miriam Friedman Morris and Detlef Lorenz in German newspapers and magazines from the 1920s and early 1930s, enriched with descriptions and e-mail notes about individual personalities. Also included are portraits representing the Jewish community in Berlin and its Kulturbund in 1935/36; as are materials about the Holocaust; and a Berlin Philharmonic exhibition in 2008/09.

An excerpt from David Friedmann’s “Tagebuch” at the LBI. “My art received a new stimulus at the end of 1923 when I was hired as a press artist by chance. That brought new life into my life. I had developed a specialty without noticing it, which found great recognition and acclaim from the press. My contemporary (aktuell) portraits. Snappy quick-sketches captured those portrayed while walking, standing, at the theater, performing sports, while moving, boxers, jumpers, wrestlers, runners, driving cars, riding bicycles, doing motor sports - I drew the arts - sciences, politics. Friedmann could be met everywhere, found everywhere until late into the night.” David Friedmann “Tagebuch,” Diary Entry May 7, 1945. (Translated from German.)