Dorothee Colberg-Tjadens

Dorothee Colberg-Tjadens (born May 13, 1922 in Berlin ; † November 22, 2004 in Bremen ) was a German ceramist , university professor and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Dorothee Tjadens graduated from high school in 1940. From 1940 to 1942 she completed a pottery apprenticeship with Helene Wenck-Birgfeld. From 1942 to 1944 she studied ceramic chemistry with Berdel at the State School for Ceramics in the ceramics town of Höhr-Grenzhausen in Rhineland-Palatinate . After her marriage to the Bremen sculptor Günther Colberg she called herself Colberg-Tjadens. From 1947 to 1951 she had her own workshop in Höhr-Grenzhausen. In 1948 she passed the master craftsman examination.

In 1951 she founded a ceramic workshop at the State Art School in Bremen. From 1951 to 1986 she was a lecturer in ceramics and professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen. In 1959 she also founded the Arts and Crafts Working Group in Bremen.
In 1987 she became the first new member in the 1983 of Bruno and Ingeborg Asshoff, Elly and Wilhelm Kuch u. a. founded "Gruppe 83". Dorothee Colberg-Tjaden's artistic work is characterized above all by freely constructed, disc-potted objects, which are characterized by their extraordinary craftsmanship and filigree design. At first she mainly worked with red clay, but her work received important impulses from her intensive occupation with porcelain as a material in the 1980s. Another focus of her work was experimental work with glazes. She was politically active. She was a member of the SPD, was for real equality for women in society and was active in the peace movement. For many years she was chairwoman of the SPD local association Schwachhausen Süd-Ost in the SPD Bremen . She was also a member of the SPD state executive and performed other political tasks.

After a stroke in the 1990s, she reduced her political and artistic activities. She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
• Hans-Peter-Jakobson: Group 83. Ceramics from Germany . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Museum of Applied Art. Bussert and Stadeler, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-932906-45-4 .
• Edith Laudowicz : Colberg-Tjadens, Dorothee, b. Tjadens . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .