Lotte Errell

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Lotte Errell , actually Lotte Sostmann , (* 1903 in Münster as Lotte Rosenberg , † 1991 in Munich ) was a German photographer and journalist. As such, she was one of the first women among the early travel journalists.

Life

Rosenberg, who had taught herself to photograph, married the photographer Richard Levy in 1924, who worked under the pseudonym Richard Errell, and worked in his advertising studio. In 1928/1929 she took her first photo tour and accompanied a film expedition led by the ethnologist Gulla Pfeffer to the West African Gold Coast in what is now Ghana. The photographs you created here have been published in numerous publications. In 1931 she published her travel memories under the title Little Journey to Black People .

On behalf of the Ullstein publishing house , she toured China in 1932/1933. After her divorce, she accompanied the Swedish Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf on behalf of the Associated Press news agency for the Munich Illustrated Press on his official trip to Iran. Lotte Errell was temporarily detained there on suspicion of espionage, but released again after a short time. At the end of 1934 she made trips to Iraq and Kurdistan. In December of the same year, she was banned from working as a journalist in Germany by the Reich Association of the German Press . Errell then moved to Baghdad . In 1935 she married the urologist Herbert Sostmann, who lives in Baghdad, and went on further trips until 1937.

After the outbreak of World War II she was interned in Iraq for a short time. In 1941 she tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to the United States . Another arrest followed, suspected of spying for the German Reich. At the same time, she revoked her citizenship.

In July 1942 she was extradited to the British military authorities and interned. Only interned in Palestine, they were later transferred to Kenya and Uganda. In May 1944 she was released and returned to Baghdad.

After the end of the Second World War, she moved to Palestine. There she gave up her job for health reasons. In 1946, the renewed attempt to immigrate to the United States failed. Errell and her husband settled in Munich in the 1950s and spent their twilight years there. Lotte Errell, widowed since 1981, died in 1991.

Publications

  • Little Journey to Black People (1931)

literature

  • Ute Eskildsen : Taking photos meant taking part. Photographers of the Weimar Republic (1994)
  • Susan Meiselas: Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997)
  • Ute Eskildsen, Dorothee Wiethoff: Lotte Errell: Reporter from the 1930s. Museum Folkwang, Essen, September 28 to November 16, 1997; Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin, January 21 to March 15, 1998. Essen Museum Folkwang and Berlin Das Verborgene Museum, 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking Ethnology: A Handbook (2007), p. 165
  2. ↑ Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann, Beate Schmeichel-Falkenberg: Crossing Borders: Women, Art and Exile (2005)
personal data
SURNAME Errell, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenberg, Lotte (maiden name); Levy, Lotte; Sostmann, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 1991
Place of death Munich