Edith Barakovich

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Edith Barakovich , also Edith de Barakowitz (born February 14, 1896 in Semlin , Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia ; died December 11, 1940 in Casablanca ) was a Jewish photographer in Vienna.

Life

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire was born, made Edith Barakovich 1913-1915 in Vienna in Atelier d'Ora Wiener corporate and fashion photographer Dora Kallmus a lesson in photography . She attended the graphic teaching and research institute . After completing her training, she joined the Vienna Photography Society (PhG), and in 1918 she registered a business as a photographer in Wieden (Vienna) . She became a society, portrait and fashion photographer and portrayed Richard Strauss , Felix Salten , Adolf Cluss and Alexander Lernet-Holenia among others in her studio . Her photos appeared in Viennese newspapers and magazines.

Barakovich married the Viennese screenwriter Paul Frank and stayed with him for a while in Berlin. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, they had to return to Vienna. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, they fled to France together, where Frank could only live on the royalties. They looked for an emigration visa to the USA in Paris, but it dragged on. In June 1940, during the German conquest of France, they had to flee to Bordeaux , where they were imprisoned as a foreigner in an internment camp . Leaving everything behind, they fled from there near Bayonne across the Spanish border. They came to Casablanca in French Morocco , which was now part of Vichy France . There they waited for an affidavit and a passage to travel on to the United States . When the entry visas for the USA arrived, the exit visas had expired and had to be applied for again in Vichy. In this situation, which was perceived as hopeless, Barakovich took his own life with Veronal in December 1940 . Frank actually managed to continue three months later.

literature

  • Anton Holzer : The tentative departure into the modern age. Photography in Austria 1900-1938. In: Photo history . Issue 113, Marburg: Jonas, 2009, pp. 21–48, short biography of Edith Barakovich on p. 41
  • Anna Auer and Kunsthalle Wien (ed.): Übersee. Flight and emigration of Austrian photographers 1920–1940 . Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 1998, short vita on p. 60
  • Andrea Winkelbauer and Iris Meder (Eds.): Vienna's Shooting Girls. Jewish photographers from Vienna . Exhibition catalog Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna 2012, pp. 195–196 ISBN 978-3-99300-089-9 (not viewed).
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women , Vol. 1: A – H. Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 198.

Web links

Commons : Edith Barakovich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Mack: Paul Franck , in: John M. Spalek , Joseph Strelka (Ed.): Deutsche Exilliteratur since 1933, Vol. 1, California, Part 1 . Francke, Bern 1976, pp. 715-719.
personal data
SURNAME Barakovich, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barakowitz, Edith de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Semlin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1940
Place of death Casablanca