Liselotte Strelow

Born in Redel, Pommerania, the farmer's daughter went to Berlin in 1930, where she took photography courses at the Lette-Verein school.

In 1932, she learned in the studio of the Jewish photographer Suse Byk, after which she was employed by Kodak (Germany).

After the Deutsche Bundespost chose her portrait of Theodor Heuss as the basis for a series of stamps of the Bundespräsident in 1959, she was able to choose her clients.

Her portraits of Konrad Adenauer, Rudolf Augstein, Maria Callas, Uwe Johnson and Thomas Mann as well as Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn, Joseph Beuys,[3] Lea Steinwasser, Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef.

[4] Strelow was a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner (GDL) and the German Society for Photography (DGPh).

Scene from Die Fledermaus with Edel von Rothe, premiere at the Düsseldorfer Opernhaus 1954, photographed by Liselotte Strelow
Edel von Rhote in Das Goldfischglas , Düsseldorfer Opernhaus 1954, photographed by Liselotte Strelow