Charlotte Joël

German photographer

Charlotte Joël
Signature (1926)
Born	September 13, 1882 or 1887 Berlin, Germany
Died	after April 19, 1943 Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Nationality	German
Known for	Portrait photographs

Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943) was a German photographer.

Career

Joël teamed up with photographer Marie Heinzelmann around 1918 and opened the photo studio Joël & Heinzelmann in Charlottenburg.^[1] She was mainly interested in portrait photography, her portraits of well-known subjects included Walter Benjamin, Marlene Dietrich, Karl Kraus, Hedwig Lachmann or Gustav Landauer.

After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, as a Jew she was no longer able to work in her profession from 1933, but the studio continued under the name "Joël & Heinzelmann" until 1938/39.^[2] With the help of her friend Clara Grunwald, Joël came to Landwerk Neuendorf, a Jewish workers' colony and training center, where she worked in the canteen.^[3]

Personal life

On April 19, 1943, Joël was deported from Berlin to the extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau on transport no. 37, where she was murdered.

Legacy

In 2013, a Stolperstein was laid in Berlin at Klopstockstraße 19 for Charlotte Joel.

Gallery

Karl Kraus (1921)
Walter Benjamin (1929)

References

^ Berliner Adreßbuch 1918, p. 1201:
Joel – & Marie Hinzelmann, (sic !) Charlotte, Atel. f.
moderne Photogr, Charlottenbg., Hardenberg=
str, 24 IV T. Steinpl. 2079 9–6
^ Last entry in Berliner Adreßbuch 1939, p. 1245:
Joël – Joël u Heinzelmann mod Photogr Charlottenb
Hardenbergstraße 24
^ Horst Helas: Eine Fürstenwalder Geschichte. PDF document. Retrieved 2018-10-21.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charlotte Joël.

Entry for Charlotte Joel in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1882)
Entry for Charlotte Joel in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (here year of birth: 1887)
Wiederständige Künstlerinnen. Lecture by Sabine Krusen on Charlotte Joel, Ilse Schaeffer, Julie Wolfthorn at the Inselgalerie in Berlin, April 19, 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-21.