Helga Teichmann
Helga Teichmann (* 1927 in Dresden as Helga Schaarschuch ) is a German photographer .
Life and works
Helga Teichmann is a daughter of the photo reporter Kurt Schaarschuch . She studied at the Staatliche Photo-Fachschule in Dresden in 1944/45 and published her first portraits during the Second World War . From 1945 to 1948 she worked as an intern in her father's shop, then she was admitted as a freelance photo reporter in Gera . Her Thuringian press pass bore the number 7. She married the musician Werner Teichmann. Werner Teichmann began his musical career in 1946 as an oboist at the Dresden Philharmonic, became a répétiteur on the stages of Gera in 1947 and became Kapellmeister in 1949. In 1951 he got a job in Eisenach , where the family - the Teichmann couple had two children - moved.
Helga Teichmann published cover pictures in the Illustrierte Rundschau ; "Foto Teichmann" was given as the author. In 1951/52 she was employed by the State Theater Eisenach as a stage photographer, after which she worked as a freelancer again. Helga Teichmann was classified as "politically unreliable" by the GDR leadership. When her husband was threatened with arrest, the Teichmann family moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in early 1953. From West Berlin she came to Württemberg, and Werner Teichmann became conductor of the Ludwigsburg City Orchestra in 1958 . In 1967 an office position was added at the Ludwigsburg Cultural Office, which Werner Teichmann kept even after his conducting activity ended in 1976. In 1980 the family moved to Trossingen , where Werner Teichmann died in 1995.
In the west, Helga Teichmann could no longer work as a photographer for financial reasons, but instead earned money with other activities. Part of its archive is in the Dresden City Museum . Pictures by Helga Teichmann were shown in the exhibition women objective in the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany .
In 2003 the Stadtmuseum Gera acquired a collection of negatives by this photographer, which are valuable for documenting the post-war period in Gera. In addition to the rubble women , Teichmann also photographed children in holiday camps, marches on May 1st and a performance of the Wildschütz at Osterstein Castle in 1949. In 2016, Helga Teichmann appeared in public at an event on the subject of escape.
literature
- 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. 143 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helga Schubert, Geraer Intermezzo has museum value today , in: Neues Gera , June 10, 2005 ( www.neuesgera.de online )
- ↑ a b 50 years of the Ludwigsburg Symphony Orchestra. Sound spaces 1958–2008 , p. 71 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Uwe Spille, Survival through storytelling , in: Südkurier , September 21, 2016 ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teichmann, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaarschuch, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |