page_title: Avraham Pisarek
section_title: Postwar
hierarchical_section_title: Avraham Pisarek / Career / Postwar
caption_attribution_description: Original image description from the Deutsche FotothekPorträt: Ernst
context_page_description: Avraham Pisarek was a German photographer of Polish-Jewish descent.
context_section_description: After the war, he worked as an interpreter for the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. He resumed his activities as a reporter and in this way documented the "anti-fascist-democratic revolution" in the Soviet occupation zone and the founding of the (communist) German Democratic Republic (GDR). The photo series of the handshake of Otto Grotewohl and Wilhelm Pieck at the foundation congress of the SED, in which the SPD and KPD parties merged to form the SED, is one of his most famous works. Numerous artist portraits, for example, those of Helene Weigel, Thomas Mann and Hanns Eisler, were created during this time. At the end of the 1950s, Pisarek turned almost exclusively to theater photography. Avraham Pisarek died in West Berlin in 1983.
  His photographic works are part of several archives, such as the German Photographic Library, the theatrical collections of the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts, the photo agencies and-images and ullstein bild, and the image archive of Cultural Heritage.
caption: Photo of the unification congress of the SED taken by Pisarek
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