Siegfried Enkelmann

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Siegfried Enkelmann (born December 24, 1905 in Krasnopol (Belarus) , † January 10, 1978 in Munich ) was a German photographer in the mid- 20th century .

life and work

According to his own statement, Enkelmann came to Berlin in 1921 . From 1927 to 1929 he worked as an assistant in the photo studio of FH Nolte, which specializes in advertising photos, and then worked in the studio of Hans Robertson . Here he mainly worked in the field of dance photography and as a portrait photographer. When Robertson was preparing to emigrate , he gave Enkelmann his studio with his name and his negative archive. This also contained the holdings previously received by Robertson when he took over Lili Baruch's studio . Enkelmann continued to work for a short time under Robertson's name, and then, presumably due to the time situation, to continue the studio under his own name. There are dance photographs from the period before 1934, which were stamped first by Lili Altschul-Baruch, then by Robertson, and some that first name the Robertson studio, later S. Enkelmann, as the author, the latter being taken by Enkelmann as an employee in the Robertson studio may have been. Almost all the glass plate negatives that Enkelmann had relocated to an arbor in the surrounding area of ​​Berlin in order to save them from the war destruction in Berlin, were willfully destroyed by them in the course of the advance of Soviet troops on Berlin. Enkelmann lived with the Jewish photographer Irene Krämer, who was trained by Robertson; they could not marry until 1945. In 1960 grandchildren moved from Berlin to Munich.

S. Enkelmann is considered the most prominent German dance photographer from the 1930s to the early 1960s. Countless of his photos have been published in books and magazines. He himself published several dance photo books with his own photos. According to his own statement, however, he made a living mainly from advertising photography.

Photo archive

The holdings of Siegfried Enkelmann's photo archive were acquired by the German Dance Archive in Cologne . They include a small number of glass plate negatives as well as over 30,000 medium format film negatives from the 1930s, 35mm negatives and slides from the post-war period. The copyright belongs to the collecting society Bild-Kunst .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donatella Cacciola: Siegfried Enkelmann (1905–1978) .
  2. ^ Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther (author) : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Stuttgart 1984, p. 143.
  3. ↑ Donatella Cacciola: Siegfried Enkelmann (1905–1978) .
personal data
SURNAME Grandson, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Krasnopol (Belarus)
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1978
Place of death Munich