Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger

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Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger (born March 30, 1906 in Freising as Erika Schmachtenberger ; † March 13, 1992 in Würzburg ) was a German photographer .

life and career

Due to the father's activity as a royal real-world teacher, frequent moves shaped Groth-Schmachtenberger's childhood. She grew up in Würzburg , Amberg and Kempten , and graduated from school in Kempten with a secondary school leaving certificate. This was followed by a bank apprenticeship until 1924 before Groth-Schmachtenberger turned to photography. She first completed various photography traineeships (1928 Oberstaufen , 1929 Würzburg) and then an apprenticeship at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich, which she successfully completed in 1932. From 1932 to 1974 she worked as a freelance press photographer for publishers and magazines, and spent the years of World War II in Ochsenfurt . In 1947/48 she returned to Munich; In 1948 she married Hans Groth. In 1974 Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger moved to Murnau am Staffelsee due to its proximity to the Glentleiten open-air museum , for which she worked as a freelancer . After the death of her husband in 1986, she moved to a residential home in Würzburg. After her death in 1992, Groth-Schmachtenberger was buried in her hometown Randersacker .

Groth-Schmachtenberger's photos appeared in major German weekly newspapers. She traveled a lot through Europe, especially looking for landscapes, customs and handicrafts as motifs.

Importance of the work

Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger worked as a photographer for six decades. Photography was her job, but it was also an experience, hobby and purpose in life. She was a photo reporter who knew how to preserve youthful freshness in her professional career. Her work of over 300,000 negatives offers documents on the cultural history of the first half of the 20th century in particular. Her photographs do not present the past as an idyll, but as a peculiarity and reality of a past time.

Her work on the record run of the Bremen 1933 ( Blue Ribbon ), the collaboration with Leni Riefenstahl as a stand and press photographer ( above all documentation of the shooting of the film Tiefland ) and above all the documentation of the past everyday life, the professions and customs have important historical significance .

Today, many pictures by Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger can be found in museums and are shown in exhibitions all over Europe. From 1982 she sold or gave away a large part of her photographic works. More than 40 archives and institutions in Germany, Austria and other European countries have bundles. She bequeathed the pictures of various stays in South Tyrol, taken between 1940 and 1969, to the State Museum for Folklore in Dietenheim (Bruneck), for example . Her former workplace, the Glentleiten open-air museum , also has an extensive collection .

literature

Literature about Groth-Schmachtenberger

  • Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger. A pioneer in press photography. Exhibition for the 100th birthday . Bamberger Land farming museum. Meeting point for folk culture and home care, Frensdorf 2006.
  • Achim Johann Weber: Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger (1906-1992). Moments in black and white. Portrait attempt by a great Bavarian photographer on the occasion of her 100th birthday. In: Augsburger Volkskundliche Nachrichten. 12th year, 2006, issue 1, pp. 29–64.
  • Alexander von Papp: Photographic Treasures. For the 100th birthday of the photo reporter Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger. In: Würzburg today. Issue 82/2007.
  • Birgit Speckle: Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger's photographs. Also a case for science. In: Würzburg today. Issue 84/2007.
  • Christine Dippold, Monika Kania-Schütz (eds.): In focus. The photo editor Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger and her work . Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Gentleiten Open-Air Museum, Großweil, June 15 to November 11, 2008. (= Writings of the Glentleiten Open-Air Museum. No. 31). Echter, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-429-03009-4 .
  • Christine Dippold: Documentary from the very beginning. The photographer Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger and the open-air museum Glentleiten. In: Yearbook for the Upper Bavarian open-air museums Glentleiten and Amerang. 3, 2008, pp. 122-139.
  • Reinhard Worschech: For me, Franconia is everything . JH Röll Verlag, Dettelbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-89754-337-9 .
  • Anne Ulrich: Würzburg through the lens by Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger. Photo book for the exhibition in the Würzburg City Archives 2013 (= Small series of the City Archives. No. 33). Publishing house Stadtarchiv Würzburg, Würzburg 2013.

Literature by Groth-Schmachtenberger (partly as co-author or co-editor)

  • with Franz Hutterer and Willy Pragher : On the banks of the Danube. Peter, Michael and Brigitte travel to their parents' home . Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1959.
  • Eastern Switzerland - Lake Constance, Rhine Valley, Graubünden, Engadin (= Greaves Travel Guide . Volume 256). Karl Thiemig Verlag, Munich 1964. (1972, ISBN 3-521-00116-4 )
  • with Erica Schwarz : The Isar. From the Karwendel to the Danube . Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1970.
  • with Hans Roth : Munich (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 18). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1971, ISBN 3-7897-0018-5 .
  • with Wilhelm Kronfuss: Münchner Brunnen (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 33). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1973, ISBN 3-7897-0033-9 .
  • with Ottmar Schuberth: The nativity scene in the open-air museum of the Upper Bavaria district, redesigned by Michael Müller (= series of publications Freundeskreis Freilichtmuseum Südbayern eV, issue 2). Freundeskreis Freilichtmuseum Südbayern, Grossweil near Murnau 1976.
  • with Ottmar Schuberth and Hellmuth Heinrich: Zinnfiguren (= series of publications by the Freundeskreis Freilichtmuseum Südbayern ; issue 3). Freundeskreis Freilichtmuseum Südbayern, Grossweil near Murnau 1978.
  • with Heinrich Wismeyer : Meditate in Bavarian style. Dialect poems to Bible pictures (= Small Pannonia series . Volume 58). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1978, ISBN 3-7897-0058-4 .
  • with Heinrich Wissmeyer: Boarischer Custom (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 78). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1979, ISBN 3-7897-0078-9 .
  • with Ottmar Schuberth: The farms on the Glentleiten . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7991-6061-2 .
  • with Helmut Sperber and Toni Schuberth: Zwink equipment collection in the open-air museum of the Upper Bavaria district on the Glentleiten (= writings of the Upper Bavaria open-air museum ). [District of Upper Bavaria (ed.); Device drawings: Florian Dering]. Open-air museum of the district of Upper Bavaria, Grossweil near Murnau 1979.
  • with Hans Pörnbacher: The Pfaffenwinkel . [Translation of the captions: Patricia Goehl (English), Dominique Kirmer (French)]. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7991-6084-1 .
  • with Heide Nixdorf, Nina Gockerell and Ottmar Schuberth: folk costumes from Upper Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania with the Transylvanian Saxons. Exhibition in the open-air museum of the district of Upper Bavaria on the Glentleiten, May 15 - September 14, 1980 (= writings of the Glentleiten open-air museum ; No. 6). [District of Upper Bavaria (ed.)]. Open-air museum of the district of Upper Bavaria, Grossweil near Murnau 1980.
  • with Hans Roth: Münchner Denkmäler (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 93). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1981, ISBN 3-7897-0093-2 .
  • with Heinrich Wismeyer: Mei liabe Münchner Stadt (= Small Pannonia series . Volume 100). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1981, ISBN 3-7897-0100-9 .
  • with Heinrich Wismeyer: Von allerhand Leut (= Small Pannonia series . Volume 102). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1981, ISBN 3-7897-0102-5 .
  • with Hildegard Schmachtenberger: Grüß di Gott, my Randsacker. Mother tongue in the native sound . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1981, ISBN 3-429-00751-8 .
  • with Heinrich Wismeyer: Meditate in Bavarian style. Dialect poems to Bible images. Volume II (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 117). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1983, ISBN 3-7897-0117-3 .
  • My favorite photos. Memories of a photo reporter from six decades . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-429-00917-0 .
  • with Egon Albert Bauer: Pfaffenwinkel (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 121). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1984, ISBN 3-7897-0121-1 .
  • with Albert Bichler As it is the custom in Bavaria . W. Ludwig Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1984, ISBN 3-7787-3243-9 .
  • with Johannes Goldner: Murnau am Staffelsee (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 122). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1985, ISBN 3-7897-0122-X .
  • Lower Franconia five decades ago. A photographic picture book . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1985, ISBN 3-429-00916-2 .
  • Craftsman five decades ago. A photographic picture book . Echter Verlag, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-429-01099-3 .
  • with Albert Bichler: Heimatbilder. Memories of the old village life . W. Ludwig Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1987, ISBN 3-7787-3294-3 .
  • Hannes S. Macher (Ed.): Föhn. A literary consolation for those sensitive to the weather . With pictures by Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger. W. Ludwig Verlag, Pfaffenhofen 1988, ISBN 3-7787-3312-5 .
  • with Johannes Goldner: Tilman Riemenschneider (= Small Pannonia Series . Volume 134). Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1988, ISBN 3-7897-0134-3 .
  • with Franz Mayer-Krausz: Back then in the southeast. Transylvanian Saxons and Danube Swabians in old photos . Mahnert-Lueg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-922170-69-2 .
  • with Alfons Kleiner: mountain farmers. Pictures from the past . W. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7787-3394-X .
  • with Albert Bichler: Back then in the country. Old village life in Bavaria. With photographs by Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger . Bucher, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7658-4187-3 .
  • with Martin Ortmeier: Schee is gwen, owa hirt. Old pictures from the Bavarian Forest . Battenberg Gietl-Verlag / Buch & Kunstverlag Oberpfalz, Regenstauf 2018, ISBN 978-3-95587-062-1 .

Media library of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation

  • Eberhard Schellenberger: “Always the right moment” - memories of the photojournalist Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger

Honors

Social work

Groth-Schmachtenberger donated the image rights to her estate in full for development aid in the Amazon (Juruti-Vehlo project).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exhibition on the 10th Balkan days in Munich
  2. ↑ Anniversary exhibition for the 110th birthday
  3. ↑ Erika Groth Schmachtenberger holdings. (PDF; 6.05 kB) In: provinz.bz.it. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger (1906–1992): a project report . In: uni-heidelberg.de , accessed on April 12, 2017.
  5. ↑ Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk with a detailed interview . Retrieved April 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Groth-Schmachtenberger, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmachtenberger, Erika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1992
Place of death Wurzburg