Lieselotte Kattwinkel

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Lieselotte Pantenburg with a reindeer in Lapland (1939)

Lieselotte Kattwinkel , married Lieselotte Pantenburg , (born March 27, 1915 in Solvytschegodsk , Russian Empire , † after 1976) was a German writer, translator and photographer.

Life

The parents of Kattwinkel, who was born in Russia during the First World War , were both originally from Westphalia . Lieselotte Kattwinkel was a niece of the well-known Munich doctor and Africa explorer Wilhelm Kattwinkel . She attended the fully humanistic Merlo-Mevissen-Gymnasium in Cologne and then studied medicine and ethnology . She worked as a volunteer for the Reichsender Köln , where she met her husband, and wrote photo and travel reports for a number of newspapers.

After her marriage to the German polar writer Vitalis Pantenburg , she accompanied her husband as a photographer on numerous research trips. The couple had lived in Rodenkirchen south of Cologne since 1938 , and in Hahnwald since the 1950s . Like her husband, Kattwinkel published her travel reports and photo reports in Nazi propaganda publications during the war ; In 1941, Lieselotte Kattwinkel published a report from the Baltic States in a BDM yearbook for girls under the title Ruhno , Die Seehundsinsel . Kattwinkel's Lapland books Lapin Hullu, published in 1941. A winter trip through Lappish wildmarks and a trip to Lapland in a reindeer sleigh with numerous own photographs were translated into several languages ​​(including Finnish , Norwegian , Dutch and Spanish ) and reprinted in several editions up until the 1950s. In 1949/50 Lieselotte Pantenburg accompanied her husband on a six-month study trip through Canada , during which they covered 30,000 km in the car. She is one of the first Germans to travel to Canada after World War II . With the material recorded on the trip, the cultural films Neuland im North America and Here begins all over again were made . In 1954 a book with photographs by Lieselotte Pantenburg was published under this title.

At the end of the 1970s, the couple settled in the Balearic Islands , where their trail is lost.

Works

  • With the Lapland Express to the Arctic Ocean , in: Die neue Gartenlaube , 1/1939, pp. 16-18
  • Runö. Schwedeninsel im Rigameer , in: Das Werk , year 1941, issue 8/9, pp. 159–161
  • Lapin Hullu. A winter trip through Lappish wild stamps , 118 pages, G. Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1941
  • Lapland trip in a reindeer sleigh. A winter trip through Lappish wild marks , 216 pages, G. Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1941
  • Vitalis Pantenburg: Arctic. Continent of the future , with photos by Lieselotte Kattwinkel, Bagel Verlag, Düsseldorf 1949
  • Vitalis Pantenburg: Here the world begins all over again. On Canada's new streets , with photos by Lieselotte Pantenburg, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1955
  • Polar night over the Lappland. From Lieselotte Kattwinkel. With four bw. Shots. In: Westermannsmonthshefte , half-yearly volume 1952

Web links

literature

  • Karolina Dorothea Fell: A calculated adventure. Travel reports by German-speaking women 1920–1945. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, p. 266 u. Note 69.

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Clemens: Gestalten and Gestalter. Heads from the Cologne district. Verlag Der Löwe Dr. Hans Reykers. Cologne 1960, p. 128.
  2. Lieselotte Kattwinkel: Ruhno, the seal island, from the diary of Lieselotte Kattwinkel. In: We girls. Illustrated yearbook of sport and companionship, happiness and serious knowledge. 7th episode, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , Stuttgart 1941.
  3. Polar Research , Volumes 20–29, Association for the Promotion of the Archives for Polar Research , Verlag W. Keller, Kiel from 1950.
  4. Hans Clemens: Gestalten and Gestalter. Heads from the Cologne district. Verlag Der Löwe Dr. Hans Reykers. Cologne 1960, p. 127.