Senta Maria Anna Siller

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Senta Maria Anna Siller b. Zmavc (born November 17, 1935 in Vienna ) is a German designer , calligrapher , entrepreneur , organizer and project initiator.

Life

Senta Siller was born in Vienna as one of six siblings . She is the great niece of the illustrator Ernst Kutzer and the niece of the archaeologist Herrmann Vetters . After the war she grew up in Franconia / Germany. Between 1962 and 1988 she raised four children in Berlin. She owes her socialization to the living conditions after the Second World War. To improve the family provision, she earned early money with paper cuttings and illustrations for newspapers, including the Ostdeutsche Zeitung, Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, Rosenheimer Volksblatt and Kurier Altmühltal. She completed her studies in graphic design at the State University of Fine Arts (later University of the Arts, today Berlin University of the Arts ) with Richard Blank (1901–1972, designer, calligrapher). As a graphic designer, she received her first commissions in the area of ​​exhibition and trade fair construction, children's clothing, toys and book illustration. Another degree followed at the Technical University of Berlin , where she studied archeology , philosophy , pedagogy and art history . She wrote her master's thesis and her dissertation on the life and work of Carl Otto Czeschka .

From 1980 to 1990, Siller ran a retail company for children's clothing and from 1987 to 1991, as director of studies at the Berlin Lette Association, was responsible for training in photography , graphic design and fashion design . During her studies she stayed abroad several times (Italy, North Africa, Greece, the Balkans and the Middle East). Since the 1970s Siller has been cooperating with N. Pintsch in the German Society for the Promotion of Culture (DGFK, also Berlin), a voluntary and privately financed association for the promotion of culture in various projects. For example, she developed projects in which scientific research results on traditional culture could be used to develop income-generating measures with women in rural areas. From 1980 onwards Senta Siller was represented with her works in numerous exhibitions, among others in the Free Berlin Art Exhibition (1980-1992), at the Expo 2000 in Hanover as well as in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (1997) and the Stadthalle Bonn (1998 ) and others.

Since 1991, Siller's focus has been on voluntary support for such self-help projects that enable women to earn an independent income. For example, residents learn from her how to make dolls in the traditional costumes of the local ethnic groups that are suitable for export. This includes the Thatta Kedona project in Pakistan , from which further projects developed in Cameroon , Colombia and other countries. A special feature of these projects is the altruism of the foreign volunteers involved . In Germany, Siller is involved on the site of the former Borsig estate (now “Landgut Stober”) in Groß Behnitz, part of the Brandenburg city of Nauen , in the “Cultura” association, which is part of an international network of non-governmental organizations .

Awards, honors

  • 1960 Floriade (bronze) for graphics and exhibition construction
  • 1968 Prize for Modern Toys
  • 1996 Federal Cross of Merit for unselfish project work in Pakistan
  • 2005 IWSA Silver Medal, Izmir, Turkey
  • 2007 UNESCO Award Seal of Excellence, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2015 TriPlex-Decoration in Cameroon for project work

Publications

Articles in magazines and catalogs

  • Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka, No Pilot-Project by Dr Senta Siller, in: 50 Years of Pakistan - On the 50th Anniversary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Editors: Amjad Ahmad, M. Saeed Chaudhry, Norbert Pintsch, German-Pakistani Forum, Bonn 1998, p. 125-131.
  • Projects around the world of EXPO 2000, pp. 1088/1089.
  • From Amjads Village to Hannover, Silke Heller, in: Puppen und Spielzeug, ISSN  0722-2408 , June 2000, p. 56.
  • Village of Hope, Hans-Joachim Löwer, in: National Geographic, June 2000, pp. 188–190.
  • The village of dolls, by SAJ Shirazi, in: Viewpoint, May 2001, pp. 32-36.
  • Dúkkusafnid á Flateyri, in: Sky 03/2001, p. 102.
  • Play Things Come of Age, by: SAJ Shirazi, in: Humsafar 01-02 / 2001, pp. 33-35.
  • Dolls as Mediators of Cultures, The International Doll Museum in Flateyri, Iceland, in: DollAmi, ISSN, July 2002, pp. 42–45.
  • Munecas del mundo, in: Doing Business, 12 / 02-02 / 02, p. 25.
  • Selling Pakistan abroad, by SAJ Shirazi, in: Motherhood, Issue 2003, pp. 61–62.
  • The Toy Village, by: Sabine Hoffmann & Matthieu Paley, in: Journal 03/2005, pp. 86–90.
  • Fair Christmas decorations from Pakistan, in: Consumer 6/05, p. 33.
  • Her doll workshop alleviates people's misery, by Sabine Hoffmann, in: Tina, May 2005, pp. 24-25.
  • Dolls of the world, in: Dolls and toys. April 2, 2006, p. 71.
  • Project Thatta Kedona by Dr Senta Siller in: 60 Years of Pakistan - On the 60th Anniversary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, editors: Saeed Chaudhry, Hermann Kreutzmann, Paul Lehrieder, Norbert Pintsch, German-Pakistani Forum eV, Bonn 2007, pp. 80–88.
  • Toys and Dolls in Pakistan. In: SAJ Shirazi (ed.): Dolls, Toys and More. National Museum Islamabad, Lahore 2012, ISBN 978-969-0-02411-7 , pp. 91-106.
  • Self-help project in Punjab: Dr Senta Siller's handicrafts, in: 50 Years of the German-Pakistani Forum Editor: Omar M. Ali, Lahore, 2012, pp. 41–44.
  • Traditional Culture & Future Development, editor: Aaron Kaah Yancho, Part 3: About Development and Practical Work by Senta Siller & Norbert Pintsch, ISBN 978-969-9550-03-4 , pp. 73-92, Lahore-Bamenda 2012

Documentaries and TV reports

  • 1991 Amjads Village.
  • 2005 Thatta Kedona, The Toy Village in Pakistan.
  • 2015 Dolls of the World in the FlairMarkt Bonn. DW-TV
  • 2016 15 Years of International Dolls Museum Flateyri. Ríkisútvarpið (Icelandic TV) from April 20th
  • 2018 German "doll queen" in Pakistan. DW-TV (Urdu, English, German)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thatta Kedona - The Toy Stuff Village in Pakistan (documentary). In: Internet Movie Database . 2005, accessed April 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Siller, Senta Maria Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zmavc, Senta Maria Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer, calligrapher, entrepreneur, organizer and project initiator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna