Picatura de vopsea - 20 - GEGEN LIEBE Stefanie Rabenschlag

Stefanie Rabenschlag

 

Now, what to say about me? My name is Stefanie Rabenschlag, I'm  49 and it happened to me only last year to start with taking photos. My profession is educating handicapped children. We live together in our house with three of them, so what I do is being a mother and housewife. I do love my job, but I’m as well always looking for  a balance. Years ago I happened to meet what is called anthroposophy, a kind of spirituality, and that is what made me look at the world in a different way. I love the arts, regarding paintings and sculptures. My favourite artists are Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Jean Miró. I love listening to classical music: Schubert, Bach, Händel, Purcell. I love thinking about the world, about people, about things. I love the nature, especially trees and flowers. I exercise to watch exactly what can be seen. I love to experiment, to find out new ways. And I love to be an autodidact. My question is: What is photography for, what can be its "mission"? How can be shown by a picture a bit more than realitiy? How can a picture draw and show the character, the essence so to say of things, plants, animals, people around us? How can a picture activate the viewer? How to speak the photolanguage?  I'm on my way with these and more questions and my trials to find answers, new ones every new day. Sure, I search for themes, but feel the most lucky if themes find me.

Another “theme” that found me are the questions that concerne the death of man and all that’s around it. Rudolf Steiner, the originator of anthroposophy, started to inspirit men and freshened the mystery about death by telling about his experiences and research for new knowledge about this unknown world. I myself am very motivated to learn about it as far as possible. So what I practise is to visit cemetries of different kinds and religions to see how people think and act about death. What do men think about death? End of their existing? End of a one and only life and waiting for a somewhen resurrection? End of one life, next to come? By visiting graveyards you can learn a lot about how people imagine life and death. Because I got accustomed to do so I never can stop anywhere without visiting the graveyard. I look around and try to feel the atmosphere of that special place. I listen to it in an inner way. So it may happen a special “link” hits my consciousness, pointing me to a grave, a name. I say hello – not loudly – and try to feel the presence of that individuality. And: I take a photo and bring it to one of my blogs, called www.mitbergblick.blogspot.com. That is as well a space of life.

I’m also interested in literature and writing and playing with words and language. Poems in any form, be classical or modern, belong to what I love very much.  So in my blog www.gegenLiebe.blogspot.com I put together pictures and words to unite them to a new idea.

And there is a third blog of mine, where I collect my photos just like a picture book: www.stefanierabenschlag.blogspot.com.

Stefanie Rabenschlag

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