APRIL 1949 – Inga Schweim (left) with Irmgardt Wendt and Eugenie Gehring (right) on the day of her school enrollment in Malente-Gremsmühlen, Germany. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com/Photo: Edith Schweim
The story behind the image
In 1949, my grandparents, my mother and my aunt had been living for more than four years in their makeshift home in Malente-Gremsmühlen. They had built the house in 1944 to escape the deadly war that had hit their hometown Kiel with a venegance. Here, on the countryside 40 kilometers east of Kiel, the situation had been entirely different. Not easy, but different.
But the business in Kiel was picking up again, Editha (my aunt) had enrolled for elementary school in 1948, and Inga followed in 1949.
This photo from the family archive shows Inga on the day of her school enrollment in 1949. In 1949, this happened typically after Easter. (Today, kids enter school after the summer holidays.) The Easter Bunny had been quite pragmatic and had selected a sturdy satchel made from leather, a small blackboard, and white chalk as gifts. Plus some sweets.
For the enrollment itself the Edith and Otto had prepared a school cone with more school items. And some sweets.
Here, Inga poses with the nanny, Irmgardt Wendt, and her grandmother, Eugenie Gehring in front of their old Opel Olympia.
Design ideas
The high resolution image
| Capture Date | Spring 1949 |
| Location | Malente-Gremsmühlen, Germany |
| Image Source | 6 x 6 cm print |
| Digital Image Source | EPSON Perfection 4870 Photo |
| Digital Image Source Format | TIFF, 48 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 2572 x 2639 Pixels |
| Copyright | Scan © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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