Jutta-Regina Ammer

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Jutta-Regina Ammer , née Lau (born January 24, 1931 in Guben ; † September 25, 2019 in Munich ) was a German photographer and painter . As a film assistant, she supported the cameraman Albert Ammer with filming during the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 in Halle (Saale). Jutta-Regina Lau ran her own photography studio in Halle (Saale) from 1953 to 1959 . Due to increasing political restrictions in the GDR on artistic freedom and independence , Lau fled the GDR to Munich in 1959. In the 1960s Jutta-Regina Ammer worked as a photographer for the German Museum in Munich. From the mid-1990s, Ammer devoted himself increasingly to watercolor painting. From 2000 Ammer actively campaigned for the processing of the events of the people's uprising of June 17, 1953 in Halle (Saale). There were several exhibitions on this subject with the recordings made by her husband and her. Jutta-Regina Ammer remained active as a photographer and painter well into old age. Ammer has been supporting the non-profit association MBEM eV (Munich's Beer Experience & Museum eV) since it was founded in 2013. Ammer died in Munich in 2019 and is buried together with the cameraman Albert Ammer in the Waldfriedhof (Munich) .

Life

family

Jutta-Regina Lau was born as the daughter of Margarete Charlotte, née Kirchner (1907 in Guben , 1988 in Munich ) and Alfred Lau (1900 in Guben, 1970 in Halle (Saale) ). Her grandfather Alfred Kirchner was an art and church painter . At the age of 14, Lau was evicted from home. Like many families, Lau had to flee from Guben to Halle (Saale) in 1945 with her mother and grandmother. She met her future husband in the mid-1950s while filming in Halle (Saale). Due to the political developments in the SED dictatorship , Ammer fled a second time in 1958 and left the self-made photo studio in Halle (Saale). In Munich in 1959 she married the cameraman Albert Ammer, who had previously also fled from the GDR . Their sons Andreas Ammer and Alexander K. Ammer were born in Munich in 1960 and 1968. Both sons are also artistically active. A German television prize was awarded to Andreas Ammer in 2011. Alexander K. Ammer is a graduate of the University of Television and Film Munich .

education

From 1951 Ammer completed an apprenticeship as a master photographer in Willy Gursky's photography studio in Halle (Saale). In 1953 she received the master craftsman's certificate from the Saxony-Anhalt Chamber of Crafts . In 1953 Lau worked as a film assistant at DEFA in Halle (Saale) with the cameraman Albert Ammer .

photography

In her own "Bildwerkstätte Lau" in Halle (Saale), Ammer created professional photographs for everyday life, photo journalism , industry and architecture. As early as the 1950s, Ammer published her photos in various specialist photography magazines. After fleeing the GDR, she worked from 1960 to 1968 for the picture office of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Further publications of her photographs followed in the 1960s. With her husband Albert Ammer , she photographed art events and vernissages for gallery owner Richard P. Hartmann in Munich in the 1970s. Photographs by contemporary artists were created. From 1983 to 1988 Ammer led courses in creative photography at the Adult Education Center in Munich . The focus of her photography teaching activities was "learning to see" and practically conveying the laws of image structure from painting. The photographs taken from the courses were presented in exhibitions, a novelty at the VHS Munich. As a result of several international photography trips, Ammer exhibited her photographs of Greece and Hong Kong in Munich. Ammer captured New York and Los Angeles "in captivating pictures". At the end of the 1990s Ammer focused on macro photography of plants and animals. Some of her macro shots were presented to the public in the 1998 exhibitions. In 2000 she was a city photographer in Gera. This was followed by her photo exhibition in 2001 at the Museum of Applied Art in Gera. "With craftsmanship (...), sympathy, understanding and cheerful serenity", Jutta-Regina took a photograph of life in this exhibition "(Neue Thüringer Zeitung). Ammer maintained her husband Albert Ammer's photo archive, which spanned more than 50 years the Museum of Applied Art (Gera) created the photographic work exhibition on Albert Ammer in 2002.

June 17, 1953 Halle (Saale)

During the popular uprising of June 17, 1953, Jutta-Regina Lau assisted the cameraman Albert Ammer with the shooting . Lau and Ammer were photographed during this film work. Jutta Lau was interrogated by the GDR State Security in June 1953 because of this activity . Albert Ammer's statement saved her from being punished by the GDR judiciary . Albert Ammer was sentenced to three years in prison in the GDR for the filming. Jutta Ammer lost her position at DEFA on June 17, 1953 because of her film assistant . After the fall of the Wall she worked with the association Zeitgeschichte (n) eV in Halle (Saale) and the film historian Günter Agde for the reconstruction of the events of the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 in Halle (Saale). The basis was the film recordings of Albert Ammer found in a Stasi file in 2000 . Jutta-Regina Ammer was committed to the exhibition and presentation of Albert Ammer's recordings on June 17, 1953. In 2003, Ammer was invited to the ceremony on June 17, 1953 by the German Federal Council . In 2013 she accepted the invitation of the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt to participate in the ceremony of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on June 17, 1953. In 2002 and 2003, Ammer contributed to the traveling exhibition " The GDR: Between Repression and Contradiction ".

painting

On his mother's side, Ammer came from a family who loved painting. Her productive mealtime began when she retired. From the mid-1990s on, Ammer devoted himself to watercolor painting. Her motifs were predominantly colorful and expressive still lifes and landscapes. Ammer went on several painting trips. Ammer presented and sold her works in various exhibitions in Germany. In 1998, Ammer exhibited her exhibition “Pure Nature” in the Braunschweig Botanical Garden . There she combined photography and watercolors in a joint exhibition.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983: Photo exhibition "Living with Light: Greece ", Adult Education Center Munich
  • 1993: Photo exhibition " Hong Kong ", Adult Education Center Munich
  • 1990s: Architectural photography, Späth-Liebergesell GmbH & Co KG, Munich
  • 1998: Watercolor exhibition “Pictures on the Road”, Die Schmiede Gallery, Aying
  • 1998: Watercolor exhibition "Pictures on the move", Cafe Buesneike, Leiferde
  • 1998: Photography and watercolor exhibition "Pure Nature", Braunschweig Botanical Garden
  • 2001: City photographer Gera: Jutta-Regina Ammer, Museum of Applied Arts (Gera)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Photography . In: Monthly magazine for photography . No. 4 . Wilhelm Knapp Publishing House, Halle (Saale) 1952.
  3. ↑ photography . In: Monthly for creative and documentary photography . No. 9 . Fotokinoverlag, Halle (Saale) 1958, p. 342 .
  4. ↑ Hans Weitpert (Ed.): Münchner Leben . No. 7 . Münchner Leben Verlag GmbH, Munich 1962, p. 20-21 .
  5. ↑ Volkshochschule Munich: Program the first semester 1986. In: Die-Bonn.de. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Walter Wagenhuber: VHS photo course exhibits: Munich - "painted" with the camera . Ed .: Münchner Stadtanzeiger. No. 46 , June 21, 1985, pp. 7 .
  7. ↑ Helga Schubert: Take an old one: Jutta-Regina Ammer discovered the city as a city photographer of the older generation . Ed .: Neues Gera. Gera May 12, 2001.
  8. ↑ Ostthüringer Zeitung (ed.): City photographer finds small town exciting: Jutta-Regina Ammer in her husband's homeland . September 27, 2000.
  9. ↑ Neue Thüringer Zeitung (ed.): City photographer of the other generation: Jutta-Regina Ammer discovers Gera . April 10, 2001.
  10. ^ Frank Rüdiger: Albert Ammer 1916-1991: A photographer is discovered . In: Museum for Applied Art (Ed.): Exhibition catalog . Gera 2002, p. 5 .
  11. ↑ a b c d Liliane von Billerbeck: Cameraman Albert Ammer: The documentarist as a "putschist" . In: Die Zeit (Ed.): Weekly newspaper . tape 58 , no. 25 . Hamburg June 12, 2003, p. 2 .
  12. ↑ Udo Grashoff: The cameraman Albert Ammer. Zeit-Histories eV, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  13. ^ A b Günter Agde: Albert Ammer: Cinematographer of June 17, 1953 . In: CineGraph (Ed.): Filmblatt . tape 8 , no. 22 . Babelsberg 2003, p. 58 ff .
  14. ↑ Udo Grashoff: June 17, 1953 in Halle - a day of moral courage . Ed .: Verein Zeitgeschichten eV Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 3-00-008160-7 .
  15. ↑ Berlin House of Representatives: The GDR - Between Repression and Contradiction. 2013, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Saxon state commissioner for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship: The GDR - Between Repression and Contradiction. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ammer, Jutta-Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lau, Jutta-Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2019
Place of death Munich