Jutta Vialon

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Jutta Mary Vialon (born March 3, 1917 in Berlin ; † February 23, 2004 in Oyten near Bremen) was a German photographer who worked in Bremen since 1948 , primarily for Radio Bremen , but also for other clients in the Hanseatic city.

Life

Jutta Vialon was born in 1917 as the only child of Justus Vialon (1888–1962) and his wife Wally, b. Günther (1894–1962) was born in Berlin-Friedenau. The family left Berlin in 1919; The father's various professional positions took her to Kronau in Bavaria, Langensalza and Sonneberg in Thuringia, Zittau and Plauen in Saxony and Leer in Lower Saxony. In 1934 the family moved to Bremen in the house Am Dobben 150, where the daughter stayed until 1976 with short interruptions. Her father became deputy director of the Niedersächsische Landesbank Girozentrale in Bremen in 1936 and a member of the board of the new Bremer Landesbank in 1938 .

In 1938 she began her photography training at Photo Dose in Bremen , although she lived temporarily in Weimar and Leisnig . From January 1, 1942 to September 15, 1944, Vialon worked for the Berlin photo studio Sandau. In the final phase of the Second World War she was obliged to work in the armaments industry and was employed as a laboratory assistant at the electrical engineering workshops in Rielasingen.

In 1948, shortly after the death of her father, Jutta Vialon registered the photography trade in Bremen and ran a photo studio with a small photo supply store in the house at Am Dobben 150 until 1975. She mainly created portraits, family and advertising photos. In April 1975, at the age of 58, she closed her business, the reasons for which remained unknown. After that, she still worked for Radio Bremen from time to time, and a few orders can be traced back to the early 1980s. In 1976 she moved to a care center for the elderly in the Bremen suburb of Oyten. Unmarried and childless throughout her life, she died impoverished in early 2004 at the age of 86.

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The photographer Jutta Vialon was one of the very few women who practiced this profession in Bremen. Her excellent craftsmanship in photo portraits would be forgotten if prominent documentation jobs had not enabled her to work in other genres. In 1958/59, for example, she captured the steel production that had recently been recorded in a series for Klöckner-Hütte Bremen and accompanied the conversion and test drives of the passenger steamer Bremen (V) operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd from 1957 to 1959 .

Her importance as a photographic chronicler of numerous television and radio productions by Radio Bremen , a station for which she worked as a still photographer for almost 30 years, is outstanding . She accompanied the early productions of Radio Bremen from one of the first television games to the harbor concert and the Rudi Carrell Show . Their recordings from the legendary Beat Club music programs are, in their intensity and emotionality, important testimony to the attitude towards life and the will to express themselves in the 1960s and 1970s.

She mainly worked with 35mm and medium format cameras and mostly took black and white photos , which she always developed in her own studio.

Jutta Vialon's estate, around 63,000 well-ordered, mostly black and white photos, about half of which related to Radio Bremen, lay in the attic of her old apartment for a long time, until the attentive new owner recognized the importance of the picture treasure and in 2006 it was taken over by the State Archives Bremen made it possible.

Exhibitions (posthumous)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The article (version from January 2016) is based entirely on the information compiled by Boris Löffler-Holte and Joachim Koetzle in December 2015, published in the exhibition "Jutta Vialon - The Beat goes on -" in the Bremen State Archives and released for publication in Wikipedia , which are available in more detail in the preface to Findbuch 10, B-FN-1 Jutta Vialon of the Bremen State Archives .
  2. ↑ Under Ernst Sandau (active around 1912–1927) the studio was known for his fashion photography ( cf. information on Ernst Sandau at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg ; accessed on January 7, 2016).
  3. ↑ The photo exhibition "Jutta Vialon - The Beat Goes on -" was shown from December 9th, 2015 and after extension until March 5th, 2016 in the Bremen State Archives. The occasion for the exhibition was the 70th anniversary of Radio Bremen and the 50th anniversary of the “ Beat Club ”. A 40-page booklet of the same name was published in large format for the exhibition, illustrated with numerous photographic works by Jutta Vialon and some photos of her person, which was published jointly by the Bremen State Archives and Radio Bremen in 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Vialon, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vialon, Jutta Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2004
Place of death Oyten near Bremen