Reading Charlotte Salomon
Michael P. Steinberg is Professor of Modern European History at Cornell University. He is the author of Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival; Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History (both from Cornell); and Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music. Monica Bohm-Duchen is an independent writer, lecturer, and curator. Her many books include The Private Life of a Masterpiece and Chagall. Exhibitions she has curated include After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Rubies and Rebels: Jewish Female Identity in Contemporary British Art. She was co-curator of Life? Or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon (Royal Academy of Arts, London).