Born in Berlin in 1979, Sarah Schönfeld studied Visual Arts from 1999 to 2005 at the UdK Berlin as a Meisterschüler of Lother Baumgarten’s.

For her project at Villa Aurora, Sarah Schönfeld plans to tell the story of both of her grandfathers, one a Jew, the other a member of the German Armed Forces through the medium of photography. During her stay she will attend a reenactment of  an event of World War II in which her grandfather had taken part. It is her aim to find a kind of reconciliation between the diametrically opposed origins and fates of both men and, in the end, to discover more deeply the conditions of her own identity.