Synopsis
A feature length documentary filmessay about the late photographer Abisag Tüllmann (1935 – 1996) and a moving portrait of a life-long friendship. Abisag Tüllmann was one of the most significant photographers in Germany during the second half of the 20th century. Since the late 1950s her pictures were shown in all major papers and magazines, but also in books and exhibitions. They provided an interpretation of the present and shaped the collective memory of the German and international public. Abisag focused upon politic events and on conditions of everyday life. She photographed not only the protagonists of the German student´s rebellion, the women´s movement and seminal artists of the 60s and 70s. She travelled and worked also in Algeria, Israel, Rhodesia / Zimbabwe, South Africa, India, Japan and all over Europe. In addition to her photojournalistic work she was best known for her theatre photography commissioned by renowned directors such as Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy, Ruth Berghaus, Andrea Breth, Einar Schleef, Peter Stein, George Tabori und Robert Wilson a. o.With excerpts of films by Claudia von Alemann, Helke Sander, Alexander Kluge, Ulrich Schamoni, Carola Benninghoven and more than 500 black and white motives photographed by Abisag in her hometown Frankfurt am Main and abroad (Europe, Israel, Asia, North- and South-Africa).