Sonja Georgi

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Sonja Georgi (born Sonja Walther ; born November 17, 1915 in Berlin ; † August 11, 1957 in Düsseldorf ) was a German fashion photographer .

Her first training as a photographer took place under the guidance of her mother, the portrait and fashion photographer Hedda Walther , after which she attended the Lette Association for one semester in 1935 . From 1935/36 she worked as an operator in the Binder studio and in 1936 opened her own studio for portrait and fashion photography on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, where she was a successful photographer until 1943. Her recordings were mostly made in the studio, but also outdoors in front of striking architecture. Between 1943 and 1945 she made several trips to Switzerland.

In April 1945 she fled Berlin to Keitum on Sylt . Then she worked there for the British occupation forces in Wenningstedt , where she - now divorced - married the island commander Major Davis. Her mother Hedda Walther also lived with her on Sylt at the time. In 1953 she moved to Hamburg , where she reopened a studio and made friends with the photographer Hubs Flöter . She worked for numerous fashion magazines, including the Illustrierte Stern in the 1950s , was hired by Curt Waldenberger for film and women in 1955 and made recordings for fashion catalogs and commissioned work for the textile industry.

In 1936 she married Heinz Georgi. The son Michael (* 1935) and daughter Sybille (* 1938) come from the marriage. In 1957 she died by suicide. An extensive bundle of her work is in the Gundlach Collection in Hamburg.

literature

  • Georgi, Sonja . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , p. 495.
  • FC Gundlach : From the new look to the petticoat. German fashion photography of the 50s. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88725-158-X .
  • Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Fashion Photography in Germany 1929-1955. Fashion photography in the focus of the Third Reich. BoD, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0731-9 .
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Münchner Stadtmuseum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 67
  • Adelheid Rasche: Berlin fashion photography: the thirties. In: Museum journal. Reports from museums, castles and collections in Berlin and Potsdam Vol. 19 (2005), Issue 2, pp. 42–44.
  • Petra Rösgen (Red.): Woman lens : female photographers 1940 to 1950. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, May 18 to July 29, 2001. Wienand, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 , P. 130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Hahn: Memories of Peter Hahn: Part I. Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-5430-9 , pp. 209 ff.
  2. ↑ Moderegger: Fashion Photography in Germany 1929-1955. Norderstedt 2000, p. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Georgi, Sonja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Sonja (maiden name); Davis-Georgi, Sonja (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1957
Place of death Dusseldorf