Ingeborg Wollenzien

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Ingeborg Wollenzien (* 1918 in Bonn ; † 2004 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German photographer .

Life and works

Ingeborg Wollenzien, daughter of a lawyer, graduated from secondary school and began training as a photographer with Claire Wilbrand in Düsseldorf in 1936 . Later she went to the State Higher Technical School for Photo Technology in Munich , where she passed her final exam in 1941. She then worked as a freelance still photographer for Bavaria Film before she returned to Düsseldorf in 1945 and began to work as a press photographer, among others for the dpd , the dpa and the Associated Press . One focus of her work was photo reports from the Ruhr area, In addition, from 1948 on, she created photo reports on the Parliamentary Council in Bonn. She was employed as a theater photographer at the Städtische Bühnen Düsseldorf and documented the work of Gustaf Gründgens . In 1954 she married Alexander Spoerl . In her later years she lived at Hofbauernstrasse 10 in Rottach-Egern . Some of her theater pictures are in the Theatermuseum Düsseldorf / Dumont-Lindemann-Archive. Wollenzien's works were shown in the exhibition women’s objective in the House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany .

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personal data
SURNAME Wollenzien, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spoerl, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 2004
Place of death Rottach-Egern