Vera Tenschert

Vera Tenschert, 2013

Vera Tenschert (born August 5, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German photographer and author who became known for her theater and portrait photographs at the Berliner Ensemble .

Life

After training as a photographer at the Berliner Lette-Verein from 1951 to 1954, Vera Tenschert was hired by Helene Weigel as a theater photographer in 1954 . In the last years of his life she met Bertolt Brecht . During her work until 1991 she photographed numerous theater performances, actors and members of the Berliner Ensemble and the Brecht family. Her photographs were used for programs and posters for the Berliner Ensemble , among other things .

Vera Tenschert was married to the head dramaturge of the Berliner Ensemble Joachim Tenschert .

Exhibitions

Vera Tenschert exhibited her photographic work several times, including with the poster artist Karl-Heinz Drescher :

• 2005 Inselgalerie, Berlin: Photo in poster - Photography in the Berliner Ensemble
• 2007 New Gallery, Book City Wünsdorf
• 2010 Gallery VORORTOST, Leipzig: of a great kind
• 2013 EINEARTGALERIE, Rangsdorf: CURTAIN UP at brecht

literature

• 1981 Die Weigel ( Henschel-Verlag )
• 1991 I am my own capital: Conversations with theater women in Berlin-O 1990/1991 (TheaterArbeit, ISBN 3929333090 )
• 2000 Helene Weigel. In photographs by Vera Tenschert. With a foreword by Katharina Thalbach (Henschel-Verlag, ISBN 3894873426 )
• 2010 Vera Tenschert: Ekkehard Schall : Of great kind ( Das Neue Berlin , ISBN 3360019865 )

Web links

• The principal's photo girl , article by Ingeborg Ruthe in the Berliner Zeitung on August 5, 2006
• On the stage and in the canteen (PDF; 1.0 MB), article in the Berliner Zeitung from April 25, 2013
• Vera Tenschert's photos from the Berliner Ensemble , article in the Märkische Allgemeine on April 30, 2013
• Vera Tenschert Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information on the pages of the Federation of Scenographers
2. ↑ Article about an exhibition opening in Wünsdorf in the Märkische Allgemeine, Zossener Rundschau, from January 20, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Information from the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig eV ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Information on the exhibition at EINEARTGALERIE Rangsdorf ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.