22. Friends, Comrades, Comrades-in-arms

22. FRIENDS, COMRADES, COMRADES-IN-ARMS

22.01 / Five of us, a song in the evening

22.02 / Four of us, goodbye to the day

22.03 / The patternmaker Köthe and his wife

22.04 / The patternmaker and his model Walter Ballhause

22.05 / Walter Ballhause, 1935 (24)

[Photo: Unknown, 1935]

22.06 / The laboratory assistant Ba. 1932 (21)

22.07 / Otto Brenner

[Photo taken: March 1932]

22.10 / My prison cell

22.11 / Walter Ballhause (1934)

[Photo: Lina Lengefeld, 1934]

22.12 / Lina Lengefeld, who lent me her Leica

"At the Young Socialists I met Lina Lengefeld – 5 years older than me. [...] I was with her from 1928 until the beginning of 1934. During this time I made use of reading her books. Among the books were many that interested me very much. [...] They were her property, I didn't have a single book myself. [...] And among others, this book by Erich Knauf "Empörung und Gestaltung", with these wonderful clear essays about the various painters and graphic artists. I read that in 1929/30. Then came this wish: you can't draw any more, you can't paint, you can't study as an unemployed person. What do you do then? You can take pictures, but you can't take pictures with a 9 x 12 camera, as you see and as the progressive painters and artists have seen. Can you try again with the camera? Yes, but the camera. That was going through my mind. At that time the Leica came up, the Ermanox and other 35mm cameras. Then I saw that with decreasing focal length the depth of field becomes greater [...]. So I said to myself, that would be the right thing to do. So I persuaded my girlfriend, who had a relatively good income, to buy such a camera. She then gave me the Leica, including the enlarger."
(Walter Ballhause in an interview with Hannes Schmidt (excerpts published in: Medium, 1985, 11/12, p. 80 ff.))

[Photo taken: September 1933]

22.13 / Fritz Treu

[Photo taken: August 1933]

22.14 / Wilma Svandjak, Springe a. Deister (see also 22.1 and 2.)