Hildegard Zenker

Hildegard Zenker (born October 20, 1909 in Weißenfels , † 1999 in Berlin ) was a German photographer .

life and work

Hildegard Zenker's father owned a drugstore and a photo shop. The daughter first attended the Lyceum and then completed an apprenticeship at the photography school of the Lette Association in Berlin. She passed her master's examination in Halle an der Saale ; afterwards she continued her education in England for a year.

Hildegard Zenker made a career as a photo reporter in the 1940s. She received many of her commissions from Deutscher Verlag, the former Ullstein Verlag . Her pictures were often published in the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung and in the Silberspiegel . The German Red Cross commissioned her to take pictures in hospitals on the Eastern Front.

After the end of the Second World War and after being imprisoned by the Soviets , Zenker worked for Neue Berliner Illustrierte . There appeared z. B. 1946 her series Die Frauen von Leuna . She also worked for Die neue Demokratie im Bild . This magazine appeared in the French occupation zone. She took pictures for Quick in 1948 during the airlift in Berlin. She also worked for the Berliner Tagesspiegel . The photographic collection of the Berlinische Galerie looks after Zenker's estate.

Hilde Zenker was married to the pastor, teacher and journalist Otto Buchholz, who was twenty years her senior. According to a niece of the photographer, the marriage ended in divorce in 1947. However, this information does not quite fit in with a biography of Buchholz, according to which he was divorced for the first time before the Nazis came to power, but was said to have been "married a second time" in 1949.

Hildegard Zenker had her studio at Ludwigskirchstrasse 10a in Berlin.

In 1992 she received an honorary scholarship from the State of Berlin, and in 2009/10 an exhibition of her works was shown at the Poll Art Foundation .

literature

House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Women Objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950. Wienand, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 147

Web links

Portrait of Jean de Mayol de Lupé on www.gettyimages.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Annabelle Seubert, Die Schwarz-Weiß-Seherin , November 10, 2009 in Der Tagesspiegel (online at www.tagesspiegel.de )
↑ According to the information on www.stiftung-bg.de, Otto Buchholz was born on December 22, 1895 or 1889 in Solingen . According to this source, the pastor's son graduated from high school in Essen and studied history and theology. After the First World War he worked as an assistant preacher in the parish in Dinslaken and from July as a pastor in Stettin , but gave up this position at the beginning of 1923 after he had become familiar with socialist ideas and had come up with the plan to open an adult education center for miners in Lohberg Calling life, which is why he passed the secondary school teacher examination in 1924. During this time he apparently referred to himself as a writer. In 1924 Buchholz got a job at the Magdeburg Police College and joined the SPD . He later became the head of the police school in Hanover . He was divorced from his first wife, with whom he had two children, because, according to the woman, he had turned more and more to Marxism . After the National Socialists came to power, Buchholz was initially released from his professional position, and a few months later, after a raid on his apartment, Communist and Marxist writings were found, and from the civil service. He was imprisoned in Moringen concentration camp and from there in November 1933 transferred to Oranienburg concentration camp, from which he was released at the end of March 1934. He then moved to Berlin, classified as “unworthy of defense”, where he sold soaps and photographs. At the end of the war he was in Weißenfels, where he was then involved in the reconstruction and reorganization of the school office. He became Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Culture and in 1948 rector of a high school in Naumburg . He gave up this position in July 1949 and moved to Hanover , where he became Richard Borowski's personal assistant . He died in 1951.

↑ studio stamp on a recording of a work of Erich Buchholz , on www.zvab.com was offered

↑ A Berlin photographer from the 1940s to 1960s on poll-berlin.de

personal data
SURNAME	Zenker, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zenker, Hilde; Buchholz, Hildegard; Buchholz, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH	1999
Place of death	Berlin

[Tagesspiegel-1] Annabelle Seubert, Die Schwarz-Weiß-Seherin , November 10, 2009 in Der Tagesspiegel (online at www.tagesspiegel.de )

[2] According to the information on www.stiftung-bg.de, Otto Buchholz was born on December 22, 1895 or 1889 in Solingen . According to this source, the pastor's son graduated from high school in Essen and studied history and theology. After the First World War he worked as an assistant preacher in the parish in Dinslaken and from July as a pastor in Stettin , but gave up this position at the beginning of 1923 after he had become familiar with socialist ideas and had come up with the plan to open an adult education center for miners in Lohberg Calling life, which is why he passed the secondary school teacher examination in 1924. During this time he apparently referred to himself as a writer. In 1924 Buchholz got a job at the Magdeburg Police College and joined the SPD . He later became the head of the police school in Hanover . He was divorced from his first wife, with whom he had two children, because, according to the woman, he had turned more and more to Marxism . After the National Socialists came to power, Buchholz was initially released from his professional position, and a few months later, after a raid on his apartment, Communist and Marxist writings were found, and from the civil service. He was imprisoned in Moringen concentration camp and from there in November 1933 transferred to Oranienburg concentration camp, from which he was released at the end of March 1934. He then moved to Berlin, classified as “unworthy of defense”, where he sold soaps and photographs. At the end of the war he was in Weißenfels, where he was then involved in the reconstruction and reorganization of the school office. He became Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Culture and in 1948 rector of a high school in Naumburg . He gave up this position in July 1949 and moved to Hanover , where he became Richard Borowski's personal assistant . He died in 1951.

[3] studio stamp on a recording of a work of Erich Buchholz , on www.zvab.com was offered

[poll-4] A Berlin photographer from the 1940s to 1960s on poll-berlin.de