Anna Werner (photographer)

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The "Harem", 2000
(Anna Werner far left)

Anna Werner (* 1941 in Munich ) is a German photographer who became known in particular as a member of the self-awareness group “ Der Harem ” around Rainer Langhans .

Life

Anna Werner grew up in Walchensee , where her mother Norma , née Bucherer (1911–2016), ran the “Café Bucherer” founded by her father in 1924 until 2003. Anna Werner's father was a north German painter.

In his youth, Werner first traveled alone through Mexico for a year and a half and then with her younger sister Frauke . The Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz gave the two sisters a letter of recommendation because of his enthusiasm for their yodelling and dulcimer playing. In 1967, during a tour of the United States , the two experienced the " Summer of Love " of the hippie movement in San Francisco . In the United States, Werner first met the American Jazon Wonders , the father of their future daughterJanna .

After the early death of her sister Frauke, who died at a young age in a traffic accident ( suicide is suspected ), Anna Werner returned to Germany, where she began with photography. There she met the former K1 communard Rainer Langhans in 1972 after he separated from Uschi Obermaier . With him, the photo model Brigitte Streubel and Jutta Winkelmann , she founded the experimental partnership known today as " Der Harem " in Munich in 1976 , to which Christa Ritter joined in 1978 and Jutta's twin sister Gisela Getty in 1991 . The predominantly spiritually oriented community of five women around Langhans in Munich- Schwabing still exists today.

In the meantime, Werner moved back to the United States, where she gave birth to her daughter Janna Ji Wonders in the mid-1980s , who is now a filmmaker and musician in the band Ya-Ha! which she founded together with her partner Florian Schuster aka "Kung Schu", rapper of the hip-hop band Blumentopf . After returning to Munich, she lived with her daughter in the harem. For some years now, Werner has been the only member of the harem, not living in Munich-Schwabing, but on Lake Walchensee, where she supported her mother in running the family business until she leased her parents' café.

In 2008, the film "Hippie mit Hackbrett" by Gabriele Dinsenbacher was made about Anna Werner in the BR series Lebenslinien . In the documentary Walchensee Forever , Janna Ji Wonders retraced the family history over three generations, the world premiere will take place at the Berlinale on February 24, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Anna Werner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is who in the “commune”? , Der Tagesspiegel, February 23, 2003.
  2. ↑ Norma Werner celebrates her 100th birthday , Merkur-Online, October 24, 2011.
  3. ^ BR filmed the life of Walchenseerin , Merkur-Online, September 5, 2008.
  4. ↑ Lifelines: Hippie with a dulcimer. The story of Anna W.
  5. ↑ a b Silke Bender. Big Brother for intellectuals , Der Tagesspiegel, February 23, 2003, accessed February 2, 2016
  6. ↑ Hell is going on in the harem , tagesspiegel.de, March 30, 2003
  7. ↑ I grew up in Rainer Langhans' harem , Berliner Kurier, February 6, 2012.
  8. ↑ The whole world embraced in the harem , Merkur-Online, September 8, 2008.
  9. ↑ Walchensee Forever press materials on kinofreund.de
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich