Waldemar Titzenthaler

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Waldemar Titzenthaler, around 1900

Waldemar Franz Hermann Titzenthaler (born August 19, 1869 in Laibach , Kronland Krain , † March 7, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German photographer .

Life

Waldemar Titzenthaler was born as the son of the grand-ducal-Oldenburg court photographer Franz Hermann Titzenthaler from his second marriage to Hermine. Haugk was born. From 1886 to 1889 he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer with Karl Friedrich Wunder in Hanover. After stays in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) , Hanover , Berchtesgaden , Leipzig , Lausanne and Königsberg , he finally moved to Berlin in 1896 , where he took up a photography position at the company Zander & Labisch , which mainly worked for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . In 1897 he set up his own photo studio and soon became one of the first German advertising photographers , whose customers included important Berlin companies.

Plaques on the urn grave of Waldemar Titzenthaler in Rofental (2019)

From 1901 he was a member of the Free Photographical Association in Berlin and from 1907 to 1911 chairman of the Photographical Association in Berlin , whose members later made him honorary master of their guild . From 1910 he served in the courts and from 1912 also at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce as a sworn expert on photographic issues.

From 1912 to 1931 Titzenthaler was for the Ullstein publishing house published magazine The lady worked and held in this position, among other things, the apartments of famous actors, singers, directors and architects the image. From 1934 he lived in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

From 1922/23 Titzenthaler was also chairman of the Berlin section of the Mark Brandenburg region of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . As an advocate of German national ideology, he stood out for his radical anti-Semitism . He greeted the seizure of power by the NSDAP euphorically and spoke out in favor of integrating the “German tribes” in Austria and South Tyrol into the German Empire. Therefore, in 2003, named after Titzenthaler mountain path to was Hochjoch hospice in the farthest Oetztal in Cyprian-Granbichler -Gedenkweg renamed. A memorial plaque on private land, behind which the urn is located, still indicates Titzenthaler's final resting place. A supplementary explanatory sign installed by DAV and ÖAV in 2014 was shortly afterwards destroyed by unknown perpetrators and replaced by a new sign in 2018. This board was painted over with brown paint in August 2019. The grave slab was also removed in early summer 2020.

The Waldemar Titzenthaler Collection

Titzenthaler's widow was able to save part of his photo archive through the Second World War . In the early 1950s, the photo plates that had survived from the years 1896 to 1920 were acquired by the Berlin State Archives and are preserved by them today. In Oven and Ceramic Museum Velten , one can also see photographs of him. There are many of his photographs that show Berlin in the last years of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Carefully taken both artistically and technically, the photos are valuable documents of the past.

Exhibitions

  • Photographs by Waldemar Titzenthaler: Out and about in Germany and Europe from October 17, 2008 to February 27, 2009 in the Berlin State Archives
  • Titzenthaler - Four Photographers, Three Generations - 100 Years of Photography , from June 29 to September 21, 2008 in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
  • Exhibition Sisterhood Years 1875 to the present day of the DRK Sisterhood Berlin in the DRK clinics Westend with a collection of photos by Titzenthaler, who photographed sisters and veterans of the First World War

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Born on February 4, 1837 in Leipzig, died on October 26, 1900 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
  2. ^ Hans Haid : Glossary on the renaming ( memento of November 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of September 12, 2003.
  3. ↑ A board for dealing critically with history using the example of Rofental , alpenverein.at, accessed on April 15, 2020
  4. ↑ Alpenverein Berlin: Festschrift on the Hochjoch Hospice (PDF, link dead)
  5. ^ German Alpine Association, Berlin section: "Der Bergbote", born in 1989, No. 3, p. 17.
  6. ↑ The anti-Semite from Rofental. dietiwag.org, October 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ See photo from September 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Markus Wilhelm: The Titzenthaler away. In: tiewag.org. June 12, 2020, accessed August 16, 2020 .
  9. ^ DRK Sisterhood Berlin: Template: dead link /! ... nourl ( page no longer available ).

literature

  • Enno Kaufhold: Berlin Interiors 1910–1930. Photographs by Waldemar Titzenthaler , Berlin, Nicolai 2013, ISBN 978-3-8947973-3-1
  • Annedore Beelte: Patriarch and Sons . In: » taz. die tageszeitung «, July 10, 2008, ISSN 0931-9085, p. 27.
  • Michael Stöneberg, Doris Weiler-Streichsbier: Titzenthaler. Four photographers - three generations - 100 years of photography . Ed. Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9305379-9-0 .
  • Volker Viergutz: Photographs by Waldemar Titzenthaler. Out and about in Germany and Europe (catalog for the exhibition of the Landesarchiv Berlin as part of the 3rd European Month of Photography, October 17 to December 23, 2008). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9803303-3-6 .
  • Berlin. Photographs by Waldemar Titzenthaler . Edited by Landesbildstelle Berlin, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87584-195-6 .
  • Jörg Krichbaum: Lexicon of Photographers . Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-26418-9 .
  • Waldemar Titzenthaler 60 years! . In: "News sheet for the photography trade", vol. 36, p. 315 f.

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Titzenthaler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Titzenthaler, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Titzenthaler, Waldemar Franz Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1937
Place of death Berlin