Abisag Tüllmann

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Abisag Tüllmann

Abisag Tüllmann (born October 7, 1935 in Hagen , Westphalia, † September 24, 1996 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German photographer .

Life

Abisag Tüllmann, daughter of Hedwig and Franz Tüllmann († July 28, 1945), was born with the real name Ursula Eva Tüllmann. Her maternal grandparents were Louise Adele and Isidor Fränkel. The grandfather, who worked as a merchant, came from a Jewish family. Father Franz Tüllmann, a trained hairdresser, had been running a reading group since 1928 . Since his wife, a trained clerk, was considered a “ half-Jew ” according to National Socialist terminology , his father had to sell his company in 1937. After changing activities as a hairdresser and worker, he was transferred to Liebau (Silesia) as a forced laborer in 1944.

From 1946 Abisag Tüllmann lived with her mother in Wuppertal , where she attended the women's high school, which she finished in 1952 with secondary school leaving certificate . From 1952 to 1953 Tüllmann completed an internship as a carpenter. From 1953 to 1955 she studied interior design for four semesters at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel. After dropping out of her studies, she first worked as a technical draftsman and then from 1956 to 1957 in the advertising photo company it copyright , headed by the writer Paul Pörtner , in Wuppertal .

In 1957 Abisag Tüllmann moved from Wuppertal to Frankfurt am Main . She learned photography as a trainee for a year with the advertising photographer Dieter Jörs . In 1958 she started working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as for the newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau and Frankfurter Neue Presse .

In May 1961, Tüllmann joined the German Association of Journalists and from then on referred to herself as a “freelance photo journalist”. She also supplied magazines such as Spiegel , Zeit , Magnum and Publik . In Frankfurt am Main she developed intensive contacts to the art and cultural scene. Her friends included the writers Hermann Peter Piwitt and Ror Wolf and the graphic artist Hans Hillmann . At the same time, the city itself became a motif of their work, as documented in a photo book published in 1963 and laid out by Hans Michel . She also had a great journalistic interest in Israel and reported in numerous reports from the crisis centers there.

From 1964 she also worked as a theater photographer in Stuttgart, Bochum and Vienna, at the Berlin Schaubühne , at the Brussels Opera and at the Salzburg Festival . Around 1970 she began working as a photography lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and at universities in Kassel, Mainz, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg.

Grave of Abisag Tüllmann in the Frankfurt main cemetery

She was buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery.

estate

Abisag Tüllmann had given her theatrical photography work to the Deutsches Theatermuseum in Munich before her death . Posthumously the picture archive of Prussian cultural property took over the complete picture journalistic work.

On the basis of a testamentary disposition by the artist, the Abisag Tüllmann Foundation was founded in Frankfurt am Main in September 2008, which is financed with the proceeds from the archive. In addition to promoting publications and exhibitions of the artist's work, she also wants to promote artistic photojournalism. For this purpose, an Abisag Tüllmann Prize is awarded.

Honors

Exhibitions

Publications

literature

  • Ulrike May: Subject: Abisag Tüllmann. Biographical Notes. In: Martha Caspers (ed.): Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Photo reports and theater photography. Exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, pp. 243–255.

documentary

  • Claudia von Alemann : The woman with the camera: Portrait of the photographer Abisag Tüllmann. 80 minutes, Germany 2011.

Catalogs

Web links

swell

  • Volker Breidecker: Always changing . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 55 of March 8, 2011, p. 12.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike May: Subject: Abisag Tüllmann. Biographical Notes. In: Martha Caspers (ed.): Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Photo reports and theater photography. Exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, p. 243.
  2. ↑ Ulrike May: Subject: Abisag Tüllmann. Biographical Notes. In: Martha Caspers (ed.): Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996. Photo reports and theater photography. Exhibition in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, p. 244.
  3. ↑ Eva-Maria Magel : Portrait of a quiet big one. Film review in the FAZ on October 31, 2015, accessed June 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tüllmann, Abisag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tüllmann, Ursula Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1996
Place of death Frankfurt am Main