Dorothea Rudolph (photographer)

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Dorothea Rudolph (* 1917 in Baden-Baden ) was a German photographer who was active during the Third Reich .

Life and works

Dorothea Rudolph was the daughter of an engineer and grew up on a farm in the Black Forest . She received private tuition until she was 16. She worked in the diet cure home that her parents ran and from 1937 attended a private business school in Stuttgart . As a clerk , she worked with an architect, she was her father's secretary. After she had learned to photograph autodidactically , she began to work as a “picture writer”. She received her first fee in 1934 for poems that were published in Hamel magazines . Rudolph published articles in the Black Forest Bote , the West German Observer , the Alemannen , the Swastika Banner , the Württemberger Zeitung and in Volkstum und Heimat . In 1935 she became a member of the BDM . Her propagandistic works, mainly photo reports and poems, appeared in Das Deutsche Mädel and Unser Weg , among others .

In 1938 she published the book We are proud of you! Arbeitsmaiden create for Germany. Photos by Dorothea Rudolph were also used to illustrate Irmgard Perzl's book Jungmädel auf dem Köllingshof , published in 1941. Part of their archive is in the Stuttgart City Archives .

The House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany also showed works by Dorothea Rudolph in the exhibition women’s objective . According to the book accompanying the exhibition, nothing is known about the photographer's life after the collapse of the Third Reich . In the FotografWiki there is an indication that Rudolph moved to Rickenbach in the southern Black Forest after the Second World War and died in 1990 in the Wieladingen district . Rolf Sachsse and Rudolph's circle of friends are given as sources .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 141
  2. ↑ Dorothea Rudolph at www.fotografenwiki.de . Proof of a Dorothea Rudolph in Wieladingen is provided by: Voss Enzymatic desizing: Melliand Textile Reports International . 1954, p. 956 ( limited preview in the Google book search), but this entry does not indicate whether the owner mentioned is the former photographer.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century