Barbara Lüdecke

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Barbara Lüdecke (* 1913 in Munich ) was a German photographer and author of books for young people.

Life

Barbara Lüdecke was the daughter of an officer. The family moved to Berlin in 1918 , where Lüdecke attended the Lyceum and then the Mary Wigman School . She completed training as a dance and gymnastics teacher and worked from 1932 to 1935 as a freelance gymnastics teacher. During this time, she was already publishing texts and images in the press as a freelancer. In 1936 she became a full-time photo editor; an entrance examination for the Reich Association of the German Press was waived for her already published work. She became special rapporteur for the magazine Der Silberspiegel , she also published z. B. in the Münchner Illustrierte Presse , the Berliner Illustrierte , the new line , the lady and the elegant world . Photos of Lüdeckes from this time are partly stamped with the text “Barbara Lüdecke - Editor in Chief i. RDP - Berlin Tiergarten - Brückenallee 8 - Telephone: 399353 “.

Her studio in Berlin fell victim to the effects of the war in 1943, whereupon she moved to the vicinity of Würzburg . After the end of the Second World War , she continued to work as a photo journalist; Customers for their pictures were, among others, the magazines Das Ufer and US-Heute . She built up the photo agency Internationales Frauenbild . As a writer, she wrote, among other things, the girls' yearbooks Meine Welt - von 12 bis 16 . She acted as editor of the anthology Der Ruf der Mutter , which was published by Kurt Desch in Munich in the post-war period. In connection with this publication she was referred to as a "German pacifist".

Barbara Lüdecke, who was married to the film director Gösta Nordhaus , was a member of the Bavarian Association of Journalists. She lived in Munich when she was old. Your archive became the property of the Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum . The Austrian Theater Museum in Vienna owns a recording of Lüdeckes that shows the siblings Hedi and Margot Höpfner dancing in Sanssouci .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photos with descriptions on www.abebooks.de
  2. ↑ a b House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 137
  3. ↑ Erika Müller, " Liebe 47 " and women , May 19, 1949 in Die Zeit ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Monika Bernold: Auto / Biography and question of women. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2003, ISBN 978-3-205-77094-7 , p. 85 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  5. ↑ Hedi and Margot Höpfner on www.europeana.eu
personal data
SURNAME Lüdecke, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nordhaus, Barbara; Nordhaus-Lüdecke, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century