As part of the current special exhibition on theater photography in the Weimar Republic, you can also discover a lot that is specific to Munich. Before 1933, the Bavarian metropolis was a breeding ground for the most diverse talents in literature, art, theater and dance. According to the exhibition organizers, Munich was also “an attraction for modern women who were emancipating themselves from patriarchal society and who knew how to use Munich’s progressive private training facilities”.
Many of their works are forgotten today – including those of the Munich photographer couple Hanns Holdt and Lise Lobe. The turning point in the cultural world that came with the National Socialists’ takeover of power was deep. With her lecture “Celebrated. Persecuted. Forgotten. Photographers in Exile” Brigitte Bruns describes the consequences. From documents, press clippings, correspondence and diary entries, she opens up the biographies and asks about the effects of their uprooting on artistic signatures.
Lecture on theater photography in Munich in the German Theater Museum, Galeriestraße 4a, Sun., Feb. 12, 3 p.m.; registration under [email protected]