Eva Sandberg

Eva Siao (Chinese叶 华, W.-G. Ye Hua ) ( born November 8, 1911 in Breslau as Eva Sandberg, † 29 November 2001 in Beijing) was a native of Germany, Chinese photographer and journalist. She was one of the European eyewitness of the Chinese revolution and the construction years of the People's Republic of China.

Life

Born Eva Sandberg, daughter of a Jewish doctor's family from Breslau, fled in the 1930s from the Nazis to Sweden, and later in the Soviet Union. There she met her future husband, the writer Emi Siao (萧 三), who was a school friend of Mao Zedong; they married in 1934. She follows her husband in 1940 after China and survived after the separation from Emi 1943 with her two sons to the war in Kazakhstan.

In 1949 she moves to China again after her husband Emi in Yan'an boss there was the Communist Party. In 1964, she is a Chinese citizen. Eva Siao worked for China's state news agency, the Russian news agency TASS, the television of the GDR. She photographed the unofficial China and became known internationally. It documented with the look of an outsider the construction of socialist China and living in this country under Mao Zedong. The black and white photographs of the German - Chinese Eva Siao showed the upheavals in everyday life after the great revolution of Mao Zedong.

During the Cultural Revolution, she and her husband were arrested. She remained in solitary confinement until 1974; In 1979 she be rehabilitated. Her husband died in 1983 Emi from the effects of seven years of solitary confinement. She lived until her death in Beijing. Their common grave is located on the Revolution Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing.

The work of Eva Siao acquired by the Cologne Ludwig Foundation and placed in the Museum Ludwig.

Film

  • Gitta Nickel: "China - my dream, my life " [ Eva Siao ], 1988, 80 min
  • Ulf von Mechow: " Eva Siao, a photographer out of love "
  • Sabri Özaydin: "The Way", a film poem and Eva Siao, 1995, 30 min

Writings

  • "Childhood and Youth Mao Tse-tung ", Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1953
  • " Beijing ", Sachsenverlag, Dresden 1956
  • " Peking Opera ", Verlag Neue Welt, Berlin 1957
  • " Stars over Tibet," VEB Brockhaus, Leipzig 1961
  • " The little devil ", Postreiter -Verlag, 1962
  • " China and its faces. Photographs of two decades," Nishen -Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3889400426
  • "China. Photographs 1949-1967 " Look Around 1999, ISBN 3894661755
  • "China - my dream, my life," Econ 2003, ISBN 3612260987 ( autobiography )
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