Wolf Suschitzky and Libris bookshop

Talk  by Julia Winckler on Wolfgang Suschitzky – life and photography. Father founded a social-democratic bookshop in Vienna. His sister, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a photographer too. She died at the age of 64, whereas Wolf was 104 when he died. Edith was also involved in recruiting Soviet spies, including the Cambridge Spy ring, and eventually photographed less as she was constantly being followed by MI5.

Wolfgang went to London in 1934 but could not earn anything from photography till 1938, when he was given a work permit.

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Hilla and Berndt Becher

This weblog is not very legal-translation-based any more – just ruminations about topics, often German, of a retired translator.

The Goethe Institut in London recently presented a film about Hilla and Berndt Becher, by Marianne Kapfer. Made in 2012 but seemingly showed last autumn in Germany. I would like to see it again but can’t find it online (yet). From the Tate:

Who are Hilla and Berndt Becher?

Hilla Becher was a German artist born in 1931 in Siegen, Germany. She was one half of a photography duo with her husband Bernd Becher. For forty years, they photographed disappearing industrial architecture around Europe and North America.

They won the Erasmus Prize in 2002 and Hasselblad Award in 2004 for their work and roles as photography professors at the art academy Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

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