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Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943) was a German photographer.
Joël teamed up with photographer Marie Heinzelmann around 1918 and opened the photo studio ''Joël & Heinzelmann'' in
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Retrieved 2018-10-21.
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) 1921 © Charlotte Joel (1882–1943) OeNB 5065542.jpg, Karl Kraus (1921)
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) 1929 © Charlotte Joel.jpg,
Entry for Charlotte Joel
in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1882)
in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1887) *
Wiederständige Künstlerinnen
'. Lecture by Sabine Krusen on Charlotte Joel, Ilse Schaeffer, Julie Wolfthorn at the Inselgalerie in Berlin, April 19, 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-21. {{DEFAULTSORT:Joel, Charlotte Photographers from Berlin People from West Prussia Portrait photographers German women photographers 20th-century photographers German Jews who died in the Holocaust 1880s births 1943 deaths Year of birth uncertain 20th-century women photographers 20th-century German women
Career
Joël teamed up with photographer Marie Heinzelmann around 1918 and opened the photo studio ''Joël & Heinzelmann'' in Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...
. She was mainly interested in portrait photography, her portraits of well-known subjects included Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mys ...
, Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; ...
, Karl Kraus, Hedwig Lachmann
Hedwig Lachmann (29 August 1865 – 21 February 1918) was a German author, translator and poet.
Life and work
Lachmann was born in Stolp, Pomerania in 1865, to a Jewish family, and was the daughter of a cantor, Isaak Lachmann. She spent her ch ...
or Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist.
In 1919, he ...
.
After Adolf Hitler's rise to power
Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the '' Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Party). He rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. Be ...
, as a Jew
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...
she was no longer able to work in her profession from 1933, but the studio continued under the name "Joël & Heinzelmann" until 1938/39. With the help of her friend Clara Grunwald, Joël came to Landwerk Neuendorf, a Jewish workers' colony and training center, where she worked in the canteen.Horst Helas: ''Eine Fürstenwalder Geschichte''PDF document
Retrieved 2018-10-21.
Personal life
On April 19, 1943, Joël was deported from Berlin to the extermination campAuschwitz II-Birkenau
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
on transport no. 37, where she was murdered.
Legacy
In 2013, aStolperstein
A (; plural ; literally 'stumbling stone', metaphorically a 'stumbling block') is a sett-size, concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.
The project, initiat ...
was laid in Berlin at Klopstockstraße 19 for ''Charlotte Joel''.
Gallery
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mys ...
(1929)
See also
*List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz
This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of independent secondary sourcing exists. This list represents only a very small portion of the 1.1 ...
References
External links
Entry for Charlotte Joel
in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1882)
in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1887) *
Wiederständige Künstlerinnen
'. Lecture by Sabine Krusen on Charlotte Joel, Ilse Schaeffer, Julie Wolfthorn at the Inselgalerie in Berlin, April 19, 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-21. {{DEFAULTSORT:Joel, Charlotte Photographers from Berlin People from West Prussia Portrait photographers German women photographers 20th-century photographers German Jews who died in the Holocaust 1880s births 1943 deaths Year of birth uncertain 20th-century women photographers 20th-century German women