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  • Unknown photographer. Portrait of Paul Edmund Hahn. Reproduced in Wilhelm Marckwardt. “Paul Edmund Hahn. Ein vergessener Fotojournalist der ersten Stunde” (Paul Edmund Hahn. A forgotten photojournalist from the very start). Zeitschrift Fotogeschichte 10 (1983). The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

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August 7, 1897
Born
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Sankt Veit an der Glan
1914–18
Serves in the army; rises to the rank of lieutenant
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Romania Russia
1919–23
Studies German, history, philosophy, and art history
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Berlin Freiburg im Breisgau
1924
Writes two comedy plays, The Family Krull and The Purjory of Kadebrecht
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Berlin
1924–32
Works as a columnist, reporter, and photojournalist for Frankfurter Zeitung, Frankfurter Generalanzeiger, Das Illustrierte Blatt, UHU, Münchner Illustrierte Presse, and the Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung
Contributor: Paul Edmund Hahn
Frankfurt Munich Berlin Cologne
1925
A production of his comedy The Purjory of Kadebrecht is well received
Affiliated: Paul Edmund Hahn
Stuttgart
1927–45
Lives in Frankfurt
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Frankfurt am Main
1929
Franz Roh publishes Foto-Auge: 76 Fotos der Zeit
Contributor: Herbert Bayer, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Maurice Tabard, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Franz Roh, Semyon Fridlyand, Robert Petschow, Sasha Stone, Dziga Vertov, Hans Finsler, Paul Edmund Hahn, J. Jay Hirz
Stuttgart
January 20–February 17, 1929
Fotografie der Gegenwart at Museum Folkwang

Kestner Gesellschaft v.V, Königstrasse 8, Hannover
March 10–April 7, 1929

Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Lützowstrasse 32, Berlin
April 20–May 20, 1929

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
June 6–29, 1929

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
July 7–August 8, 1929

Leipziger Kunstverein, Augustusplatz 6, Leipzig
August 18–September 8, 1929

Lichthof des Neuen Rathauses, Dresden
September 15–October 6, 1929

Kunstverein, Rostock
October 20-November 10, 1929

am Adolf-Mittag-See, Städtisches Ausstellungsamt, Magdeburg
November 28–December 19, 1929

Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern
February 23–March 23, 1930

Vereinigung Göttinger Kunstfreunde, Göttingen
May 18–June 8, 1930

Participant: Berenice Abbott, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Max Burchartz, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, El Lissitzky, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Walter A. Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Hans Richter, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Lucia Moholy, Karl Blossfeldt, Erich Comeriner, Eli Lotar, Oskar Nerlinger, Robert Petschow, Frieda Gertrud Riess, Sasha Stone, Hans Finsler, Paul Edmund Hahn, Cami Stone
Essen
1934–40
Works as editor-in-chief of Südwestdeutschen Rundfunk-Zeitung
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Frankfurt
1940
Conscripted into the military
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Poznan
1944–45
Captured by the British; released at the end of the war
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Riga
1945
Returns to Frankfurt; the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung attempts to hire him as an editor but they are stopped by the Americans because Hahn had joined the Nazi party
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Frankfurt
1945–53
Writes for Westfälische Rundschau and other newspapers
Contributor: Paul Edmund Hahn
Herford
December 19, 1960
Dies
At location: Paul Edmund Hahn
Herford

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