Hanna Seidel (photographer)

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Hanna Seidel (born August 3, 1925 ; † September 9, 2005 in Cologne ) was a German amateur photographer who mainly left behind photos from overseas . The teacher, who temporarily worked in Cologne, traveled to various continents from the 1950s to the 1980s and during this time she "[...] staged many motifs with her unique style".

Life

Hanna Seidel was released from Russia as a prisoner of war in West Germany in 1948 and since then had "[...] decided to see something of the world." After her second teacher examination, she signed up for the foreign school service and then taught at a private school from 1957 until 1963 at the Reuter School in Buenos Aires . During her vacation the teacher went on extensive study trips through the South American continent and made documentary recordings about the countries visited, their people and customs "[...] of enchanting beauty and proud grandeur, seen through the eyes of a European woman."

After working in the capital of Argentina , Hanna Seidel was vice principal at the evangelical elementary school Peter-Gries-Straße in Cologne - Flittard .

For the tenth anniversary of Lufthansa from 1 April 1965, has been traveling exhibition with works Seidel under the title "From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn ", according to the stations in Cologne and Bonn , even in the house of the Commerzbank in Stuttgart in the King Straße 11 to 15 shown. An explanatory catalog was published for the exhibition. The exhibition, initiated by Commerzbank and Lufthansa , was also presented in a bank branch in Nuremberg near the Lorenz Church from July 12, 1965 . The "typical" recordings made by Seidel in the showcases were supplemented by loans from the Ethnological Museum in Frankfurt am Main, for example , and by various diplomats in order to document the mixture of Indian, Spanish and Portuguese cultural influences in South America.

The Kölnische Nachrichten in 1965 judged the around 3,000 color slides and 1,000 black-and-white pictures produced by Seidel in South America : The photographer “[... by no means] took snapshots for the family album, [...] but knew how to use her camera, regardless of whether it was about landscape photographs , architectural or art historical treasures or the people of South America ", and within the - limited - scope of the possibilities of a photo exhibition it still gave" [...] a rounded cross-section through the subcontinent ". The mayor of Cologne Theo Burauen was particularly interested in the photographs of a modern housing estate in Buenos Aires.

The recordings made by Hanna Seidel on her travels also include photographs from the former USSR , Japan and the USA .

She bequeathed all of her photographic legacy to her long-time friend Ralf Rochel. This was acquired by Frank Golomb in 2013 and has been digitized since then.

Hanna Seidel last lived in an old people's home in Bergisch Gladbach .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Seidel (obituary notice), doolia.de.
  2. ↑ Frank Golomb (responsible): About us on the united-archives.fotograf.de page , accessed on June 13, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Gerd Hübner: With the camera through all of Latin America , in: Kölnische Nachrichten of ... February 1965
  4. ↑ a b to: With the camera throughout Latin America ... . In: Franconian daily mail from July 13, 1965
  5. ↑ ld: From Rio Grande to Cape Horn , in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of April 3, 1965
  6. ↑ Proof with digital images
  7. ↑ Conny Seidel: My top photos on the fotocommunity.de page
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher in Cologne and amateur and documentary photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1925
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2005
Place of death Cologne