SCHLEGELMILCH, Cordia

About German photographer Cordia SCHLEGELMILCH (b.1952, in Magdeburg)

Cordia SCHLEGELMILCH studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin from 1972-1977. In 1986/87 she trained at the 'Werkstatt für Photographie' in Berlin and spent a year as an assistant to a Berlin architectural photographer. Since 1989 she has worked as a freelance architecture, art and building photographer and sociologist. She became known in particular for her long-term sociological and photographic study of the Saxon town of Wurzen from 1990 to 1996. Cordia SCHLEGELMILCH has published over half a dozen illustrated books to date.

Photo books by Cordia SCHLEGELMILCH

• 'Übergänge: Von der DDR zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland' (2006, together with Ewald Hentze); 'Wurzen' (2010); 'Eine Stadt erzählt die Wende: 1989 Wurzen/Sachsen 1990' (2019); 'Wurzen. Ankunft in einer anderen Zeit (Arrival in another time): The 1990s' (2020); 'Endlich seid ihr da!: Als die DDR ging und der Westen kam. Eine fotografische Entdeckungsreise' (Finally you're here: When the GDR left and the West came. A photographic journey of discovery, 2023)