Ursula Litzmann

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Ursula Litzmann (* 1916 in Bonn ; † 2004 ) was a German photographer .

Life

Ursula Litzmann came from a Brandenburg family of officers and scholars. Her father was a lawyer. Ursula Litzmann, who had numerous contacts with artists and writers, first completed an apprenticeship in the field of beekeeping in Celle . In 1939 she began to take photographs as a self-taught artist , concentrating on portraits and theater recordings.

She was inspired by a concert at which she sat behind the orchestra and watched the conductor. At first she used a cheaply purchased Leica .

After one of her pictures was published for the first time in the illustrated supplement of the Hamburger Anzeiger of October 5, 1940, she continued to supply this newspaper with photo articles before moving to Berlin in the early 1940s , where she worked with Berlin-Film and Atlantic worked together and was admitted to the position of press photographer. Her stage and concert photos, but also portraits, especially of Ernst Jünger , appeared in the illustrated magazine Koralle , among others . During the war, Ursula Litzmann stayed in Poland for a while, including in Litzmannstadt, named after her great-uncle Karl Litzmann . In 1943 she documented the life of the so-called Eastern workers for the German Red Cross .

After she returned to Hamburg in 1944 or 1945, she received one of the first photography permits issued by the British occupying forces and was given a cellar office in the house of the Hamburger Anzeiger . In the post-war period she worked for the Hamburger Allgemeine , Kölner Neue Illustrierte and Münchner Heute, among others . Her pictures showed the Hürtgen Forest and the destroyed Cologne; she also dealt with the social situation in the Ruhr area , with the situation of Jewish emigrants, with political conferences and international encounters. She converted to Catholicism in 1949 .

Ursula Litzmann married a Spanish sculptor . In her later years she lived in Düren .

Litzmann's archive came to the picture archive of the Historical Museum in Berlin.

literature

Web links

  • Ursula Litzmann on www.akg-images.de
  • Departing DPS from the Bergen-Belsen camp wait with their luggage in front of their living quarters. The DPs are on their way to Palestine at collections.ushmm.org
  • Hunger winter - survival after the war on www.ndr.de
  • Sports festival of the HJ / Lodz (Litzmannstadt) 1940 on www.akg-images.fr

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Year of death according to www.netzwerk-fotoarchive.de
  2. ↑ Among other things, she had known Wolfgang Borchert since 1940 , cf. Gordon JA Burgess: Wolfgang Borchert . Structure paperback, 2007, ISBN 978-3-746-62385-6 , p. 82 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c d House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 136 f.
  4. ↑ a b c d Ursula Johanna Litzmann, m. Pastor, married Jimeno (born 1916) , on www.dhm.de
personal data
SURNAME Litzmann, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Litzmann, Ursula Johanna; Litzmann Pastor, Ursula Johanna; Litzmann-Jimeno, Ursula Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 2004