Elfi wildfire

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Elfi Wildfeuer , today Petersen, (* 1921 or 1922 in Salzburg ) is a former photo model , among others for Hubs Flöter . It is not clear whether her name is a stage name .

Life

Wildfeuer was born in Salzburg. She had completed a fashion training at the “Higher State College for Commercial Women’s Professions” and then worked as a fashion illustrator. She also successfully completed an apprenticeship as a seamstress with a journeyman's certificate. From 1939 at the latest, she was also active as a model. First she worked with Walter Freiherr Wolff von Gudenberg , who ran photo studios in both Salzburg and Berlin, and later in Berlin with Rolf W. Nehrdich . Ulla Denk later reports that in 1943 she and Wildfeuer for a fashion show in front of Magda Goebbels and Emmy Göring , among others , because their appearance did not correspond to the ideal of a blond, blue-eyed man quin. After the war, Wildfire became one of the most photographed models. Hubs Flöter claims to have discovered her as early as 1942 and concluded an exclusive contract with her until 1955. During this time she appeared several times on the covers of German magazines. Among others the Spiegel , the Film und Frau and the Schwäbische Illustrierte Presse .

After her modeling career, she ran a fashion salon in Salzburg. According to a Spiegel report, she married a building contractor in 1949 and her real name was Eva Kraichschmidt.

In 2001 an exhibition with pictures by Susanne Erichsen , Denise Sarrault and Elfi Wildfeuer took place in Berlin. In the reporting on this one could read that her name is Petersen today .

literature

  • Fashion ambassadors. Star mannequins and photo models of the fifties in international fashion photography; Susanne Erichsen, Denise Sarrault and Elfi Wildfeuer in photographs by Hubs Flöter… National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Art Library, ISBN 3-89602-377-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Modefotografie in Deutschland 1929–1955. 2000, pp. 71-72 online at googlebooks
  2. ^ Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Modefotografie in Deutschland 1929–1955. 2000, p. 181 online at googlebooks
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel from April 20, 1950 (accessed June 23, 2014)
  4. ↑ www.tagesspiegel.de (accessed on June 23, 2014)
  5. ↑ www.berliner-zeitung.de (accessed on June 23, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Wildfire, Elfi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Elfi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photo model
DATE OF BIRTH 1921 or 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg