Caputh-based publisher Krystyna Kauffmann recently released the third illustrated book on photojournalist Marie Goslich. It is entitled "Ein Leben hinter Glas" (A Life Behind Glass) and once again draws on Goslich's original photo plates. This includes some that have not been published before.
Dr. Krystyna Kauffmann
Dr. Krystyna Kauffmann has reconstructed the life and work of Marie Goslich (1859–1938) for the illustrated book of the same name, published in 2013. In her presentation, she introduces the unjustly forgotten “pioneer of the modern view, who was one of the first women to dare to focus her camera on subjects considered inappropriate for her gender, such as vagrants and homeless people.
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Marie Goslich – The Grand Dame of Photojournalism. Presented and read by Krystyna Kauffmann and Lisa Wechmann.
Exhibition at Kehrer Berlin from September 14 to October 12, 2014
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The jury of the German Photo Book Award is sending the book Marie Goslich – Die Grande Dame des Fotojournalismus (Marie Goslich – The Grande Dame of Photojournalism) on tour as part of a traveling exhibition. Together with 193 other outstanding books, the Lette diploma thesis is on the road in a major photo book exhibition. At the end of 2013, the book about the former Lette student was nominated for the Photo Book Award.
Stops include the Baden-Württemberg State Representation in Brussels, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the IBO Friedrichshafen International Lake Constance Fair, the Karlsruhe Regional Council, the Forum for Photography in Cologne, and various libraries and universities.
More than 100 years ago, Marie Goslich became fascinated by the art of photography, which she learned at the Lette Association. In 2013, her young fellow student Lisa Wechmann used her creativity and knowledge of graphic design to create a memorial in the form of the layout for the book “Marie Goslich – Die Grand Dame des Fotojournalismus” (Marie Goslich – The Grand Dame of Photojournalism). Dr. Krystyna Kauffmann was able to save the sensational photographic finds and make them available to Lisa Wechmann for her thesis.
On October 24, 2013, a panel discussion with Dr. Krystyna Kauffmann and Lisa Wechmann took place at the Lette Association, during which fictional interviews with Marie Goslich were read aloud.
Gabriele Otto, training manager for chemical and biological laboratory assistants, took on the role of Marie Goslich. Frank Sandmann read the part of the fictional reporter.
The jury has nominated the book “Marie Goslich – Die Grandedame des Fotojournalismus” (Marie Goslich – The Grand Dame of Photojournalism) for the traveling exhibition. This means that the book, along with 193 other outstanding books, will be included in a major photo book exhibition. The exhibition will first be presented as part of the “Stuttgart Book Weeks 2013” and will go on tour next year. Stops include the “Representation of Baden-Württemberg in Brussels,” the “Frankfurt Book Fair,” the IBO Friedrichshafen (International Lake Constance Fair), the Regional Council in Karlsruhe, the “Forum for Photography in Cologne,” as well as various libraries and universities.
Writer and editor Marie Goslich was probably the first woman to illustrate her reports. Simone Schiffer took a look at the illustrated book.
Radio session no longer available.
Pictures of the journalist and photographer Marie Goslich impressively reflect the spirit of her time. They show the change of the social structure in rural and urban areas resulting from the boom of technical progress around the turn of the century. In newspaper articles illustrated with her photos Marie Goslich describes the rising of social ills and the destruction of the previous urban infrastructure of the city of Berlin. In tune with the time she takes refuge in the country with the help of her camera.
Parts of her critical and ironical comments are presented in dialogues with a fictive interviewer:
Times are over that anglers were considered as a kind of naive, placid idiots whose brains were just enough to take dumb and dull fish by surprise now and again.
Authors: Krystyna Kauffmann, Mathias Marx und Manfred Friedrich
The book is published at Seemann Verlag
On April 1, 2013, a stumbling stone was laid for photojournalist Marie Goslich on the initiative of the Heimatverein Geltow e.V. (Geltow Local History Association). The chairman of the Heimatverein, Mr. Manfred Uhlemann, welcomed the numerous participants with a few sentences from Marie Goslich's article “Ich schnitt es gern in alle Rinden” (I liked to carve it into all bark), which appeared in the Berlin magazine “Die Woche” in 1906.
Human beings like to take their pleasures and sorrows out into nature. It is as if nature gives them the peace that they lack within themselves. In pairs, they wander into the shade of the forest, to secretly caress each other under the protective branches. On the heights, those who are alone and wistfully remember the other who is far away climb up. And longingly they watch the white clouds floating in the fragrant ether, and would like to drift away with them, to where they alone can find satisfaction. And then they take a knife, and traces of their happiness and torment remain where they have been. Such runes are carved everywhere out there: on the tree by the country road, on the fountain by the path, and people pass by without paying any attention to them. But to those with imagination, each rune is the title of a chapter of love, lust, and suffering. One of the runes on the mill beam clearly shows a snake, bearing the initials of those who once played a false game with love. ...And again it comes up the hill, but this time amid loud, cheerful chatter. There are two children, carrying a basket between them: a boy and a girl. The boy is wielding a large kitchen knife, cutting food for the goat... the girl is chasing the colorful butterflies fluttering above and laughs when the boy asks her if he should carve something into the mill beam.
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Krystyna Kauffmann (Hg.)
Die Poesie der Landstraße Marie Goslich (1859–1936)
ISBN 978-3-86732-048-1
year 2008
105 pages, 77 illustrations.
22,5 x 21,0 cm
hardcover
Mathias Marx, Krystyna Kauffmann (Hg.)
Marie Goslich 1859-1938 Die Grande Dame des Fotojournalismus
ISBN 978-3-86502-315-5
year 2013
256 pages
30 x 24 cm
hardcover
Krystyna Kauffmann, Richard Reisen (Hg)
Ein Leben hinter Glas
ISBN 978-3-86206-528-8
year 2016
ca. 340 pages
16,5 × 23 cm
hardcover
Geltow
since 2013
Am Wasser 4
Frankfurt Oder
since 2012
Heilbronner Str. / Franz-Mehring Str.
