Cordia Schlegelmilch

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Cordia Schlegelmilch

Cordia Schlegelmilch (* 1952 in Magdeburg ) is a German sociologist , author and photographer who became known primarily for her sociological and photographic long-term study of the city of Wurzen from 1990 to 1996.

Life

Cordia Schlegelmilch was born in Magdeburg in 1952. In the same year the family moved to Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam and lived there in the villa that later became known as the Peter Huchel House. Her father, then a prospective judge, left the GDR with the family in 1955. Schlegelmilch grew up in Munich and attended Maximiliansgymnasium there from 1962 to 1972 .

sociology

From 1972 to 1977 she studied sociology in the philosophy and social sciences department at the Free University of Berlin . Until the end of the 1980s she was a research assistant at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin in the areas of labor market policy and qualitative biography research. In 1985 she did her doctorate there on the labor market situation and the prospects of underqualified academics with the title Taxi Driver Dr. Phil. - Academics in the gray area of ​​the job market with Martin Kohli and Wolfgang Streeck . In 1986, the dissertation was awarded the Research Prize of the Institute for Employment Research . Then she turned to photography, which she linked to her sociological research interests.

photography

From 1986 to 1987 Schlegelmilch studied in the photography workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which was founded in Berlin in 1976 as an alternative to traditional photography training centers. She attended seminars at the photography school “Photography am Schiffbauer Damm” with Ute Mahler ( Ostkreuz Photo Agency ) and at the “Society for Humanistic Photography” (GfHF) and was Bernd Kreutz's assistant in his Berlin studio for architectural photography from 1987 to 1988. There she learned how to use the large format camera ( plate camera ) Sinar F2 (4 × 5 inch) and photographed construction objects for well-known real estate companies and developers.

In photography, Schlegelmilch found her focus in the areas of architecture, monument preservation, restorations, building history, art and art in architecture. It is represented by the archive for art and history akg-images. Its clients include the German Bundestag , the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning , museums and galleries, property developers, architects and engineers.

Wurzen study

The special combination of sociology and photography formed the basis of her long-term community study, which she carried out from 1990 to 1996 with financial support from the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture , the German Research Foundation Bonn and the Science Center for Social Research Berlin in the Saxon town of Wurzen east of Leipzig realized. The Wurzen study is a unique long-term documentation of a Saxon city and its inhabitants after the Peaceful Revolution of 1989–1990. In detailed one-on-one conversations with tape recordings, Schlegelmilch collected more than 170 told résumés from people of different age groups and milieus in Wurzen, who report on their personal everyday lives in the GDR and on the changes after reunification. Her photographs, which were taken at the same time in Wurzen, are a collection of snapshots of the transition from “no more” to “not yet” in a small-town society.

Publications (selection)

  • Taxi driver D [okto] r phil. , Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1987, ISBN 978-3-8100-0609-7
  • Decentralized workplaces - An empirical study of new forms of employment and family forms , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt Main, 1989, ISBN 3-593-34097-6 (together with Friedhart Hegner, Marianne Klocke-Kramer and Ulrich Lakemann)
  • Photographs in: Novy Klaus; von Neumann-Cosel Barbara (ed.): Between tradition and innovation. 100 years of the Berlin construction and housing cooperative from 1892 , Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1992
  • German age. Explorations in a small Saxon town . In: PROKLA, Journal for Critical Social Science, Issue 91, 23rd year 1993, No. 2, pp. 269–295.
  • Generations in Conversation , German Institute for Adult Education, Frankfurt (Main) 1994, ISBN 3-88513-456-X
  • Life paths in Germany. The power of historic spaces. In: Berliner Debatte - INITIAL, H. 2, 1996, pp. 47-61.
  • For the people or with the people? About the difficulties with democracy in the small Saxon town of Wurzen. In: Germany Archive, No. 4, 29th year, 1996, pp. 535-542.
  • I am packing. In: Daily Life, No. 73 (focus on collecting), September 1996, pp. 105–122.
  • Biography and legitimacy. Results of a community study in East Germany. In: Miethe, Ingrid; Silke Roth (Ed.) Political Biographies and Social Change, Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2000, pp. 40–62, ISBN 3-89806-038-1
  • Helmut Kissner; Cordia Schlegelmilch, The Church of St. Marien am Behnitz in Spandau. A forgotten work by August Soller , Berlin 2004, nicolai Verlag, ISBN 3-89479-117-9
  • "And then you can't suddenly rethink the people's own way of thinking" - economies between profit orientation and nationalization. Company history of a medium-sized company in the GDR. In: Historical Social Research, Vol. 30 - 2005 - No. 2, pp. 96-129
  • Angelika Kampfer, Monika Flacke, Regina Mönch, Cordia Schlegelmilch Ewald Hentze, Transitions - From the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany. with the artistic collaboration of Ewald Hentze , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77546-1
  • Time without images - a contradiction to the media presence in the time of the change? In: Ziehe, Irene; Ulrich Hägele for the Museum of European Cultures - National Museums in Berlin (ed.): Visuelle Medien und Forschung , Waxmann, Münster 2011, pp. 151–169, ISBN 978-3-8309-2515-6
  • Photographs in: Philip Jodidio: Rooftops. Islands in the Sky , Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8365-6375-8
  • Photographs in: Hölz, Christoph (Hrsg.): Formen des Zeigens. The exhibition designer Klaus-Jürgen Sembach , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07168-1
  • Photographs in: von Zitzewitz, Jutta, silent green - From the crematorium to the culture quarter , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07442-2
  • Stage Construction - Conversation with Houses. Photographs 2002–2017 , Bübül art book, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946807-16-2
  • Cordia Schlegelmilch: A city tells the story of the turning point - 1989 Wurzen / Saxony 1990 . Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg, Beucha 2019, ISBN 978-3-86729-239-9 (funded as part of the "Revolution and Democracy" program by the Free State of Saxony).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001 Municipal gallery on the market, Wurzen, arrival in O-725 Wurzen. Photographs 1990–1996
  • 2002 Photography at Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Pictures of a Year (group exhibition)
  • 2017 Photo gallery Friedrichshain, Berlin, One day in Berlin - 30 years later (group exhibition)
  • 2017 Atelier Kirchner, Berlin, Stage Construction - Conversation with houses
  • 2018 Freelens, Salon Wellenmaschine, Berlin, Borderline (group exhibition)
  • 2019 Städtische Galerie am Markt, Wurzen, exhibition and book, 30 years of peaceful revolution. A city tells of the turnaround (funded as part of the "Revolution and Democracy" program by the Free State of Saxony)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information provided by the author at her reading in Wurzen on October 1, 2019
  2. ↑ Hendrik Röder, Lutz Seiler, Peter Walther: In the pine vault - Peter Huchel and the history of his house . 1st edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-142-6 , pp. 11-13 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Gillmann: The fairy tale of the doctorate taxi driver . In: Handelsblatt . Handelsblatt Media Group, Düsseldorf September 4, 2019, p. 12 ( handelsblatt.com ).
  4. ↑ Cordia Schlegelmilch: "Time without Images" - a contradiction to the media presence in the time of change? In: Commission photography of the German Society for Folklore (Hrsg.): Visuelle Kultur. Studies and materials . tape 5 . Waxmann, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2515-6 , pp. 151-169 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Hanselle: The surprise package . In: fotoMAGAZIN . No. 12 . Year Top Special Verlag, December 2014, p. 36-40 .
  6. ↑ akg-images - Search Result. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Marianne Wollenweber: The representatives and their faith . Ed .: German Bundestag. Berlin April 2019.
  8. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Ed.): Kunst am Bau, Federal Projects 2006-2013 . jovis, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86859-246-7 .
  9. ↑ German Historical Museum: Imprint. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ LITTLE. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  11. ^ Guy Bloch-Champfort: Berlin, nouvel Eden des artistes . In: Société Française de Promotion Artistique (ed.): Connaissance des ARTS . Paris January 2011, p. 80-86 .
  12. ↑ The renovation to the castle hotel created many jobs | Monuments online. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ References - Fläming Baustofflabor GmbH - FBL GmbH - Treuenbrietzen. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ silent green. (PDF) Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Office 33 - ingenbleek - neubauer + ernst - eichberger - masswerk. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Kalkhorster Straße 13: Imprint. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  17. ^ BauNetz Media GmbH: Kannenberg Architects. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Architecture Prize Berlin 2016. Accessed on October 8, 2019 .
  19. ↑ German Bauzeitschrift. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  20. ↑ In the biscuit factory | One day in Germany. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Cordia Schlegelmilch: Wurzen begins with W, it has always been like that. Living together in a Saxon district town before and after 1989, part 1 . In: BIOS . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, January 2004, p. 35-68 .
  22. ↑ Cordia Schlegelmilch: Wurzen begins with W, it has always been like that. Living together in a Saxon district town before and after 1989, part 2 . In: BIOS . Budrich-Verlag, January 2005, p. 48-94 .
  23. ↑ Cordia Schlegelmilch: Wurzen - illustrated book from the series turning times . 2nd Edition. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-066-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlegelmilch, Cordia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist, author and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg