Nini & Carry Hess. Gertrude Fuld. Theatre Photography in the Weimar Republic
10.11.2022 - 08.03.2023 ,
Deutsches Theatermuseum (German Theatre Museum)
Women in front of and especially behind the camera were no longer an unusual sight in the Weimar Republic. The sisters Nini and Carry Hess ran a busy photo studio in Frankfurt. In front of their camera: famous personalities of their time, many of them actors and dancers. The photographers devoted themselves intensively to theatre and dance photography, including documenting a guest performance of the Habima Theatre, and time and again also the New Woman, on this and the other side of the stage. In Munich, Gertrude Fuld documented the city's theatre life at almost the same time, her pictures testifying to a more restrained modernity. As photographers, all three women are part of a development that began famously with the Atelier Elvira in Munich: Female entrepreneurship in the field of photography.
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