Abisag Tüllmann

After dropping out of her studies, she first worked as a technical draughtswoman and then, from 1956 to 1957, in the Wuppertal advertising photo company it copyright, which was run by the writer Paul Pörtner.

Her friends included the writers Hermann Peter Piwitt [de] and Ror Wolf as well as the graphic artist Hans Hillmann.

From 1964, she also worked as a theatre photographer in Stuttgart, Bochum and Vienna, at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer [de], at the Brussel Opera and at the Salzburg Festival.

Around 1970, she began teaching photography at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin and at colleges in Kassel, Mainz, Frankfurt and Hamburg.

On the basis of a testamentary disposition by the artist, the Abisag Tüllmann Foundation was founded in Frankfurt in September 2008, which is financed with the proceeds from the archive.