Jaro von Tucholka

Jaro von Tucholka (born 19 January 1894 in Poznań; died 2 July 1978 in Munich), from the , was a portrait photographer, translator and painter. She photographed celebrities, including Renée Sintenis, Arnolt Bronnen and Marieluise Fleißer, especially during the 1920s and 1930s.

Early life and education Jarosława Melanie von Tucholka was born in Poznań into a Catholic noble family who spoke both Polish and German in daily life. While young, Jarosława finished a private painting study in Dresden, and then moved to Vienna to study photography, specializing in portraiture.

Career Jarosława Melanie von Tucholka moved to Berlin in 1914, becoming a professional photographers there; Berlin's museum administration hired her to photograph Belgian art pieces. During World War I, she also worked as a translator at a Polish diplomacy office in Berlin. Tucholka also portrayed other (later persecuted by Nazis) Weimar artists: Ricarda Huch, Carl Zuckmayer, Marieluise Fleißer, and Renée Sintenis. Weigelt also wrote pro-government articles for provincial newspapers and for Berliner Rundfunk. Since 1939, Weigelt also had connections to the Red Orchestra, but stopped associating with them before the group were unmasked in 1942.

While Friedrich Weigelt and his male partner found refuge with Richard Schultz in Berlin, Jaro von Tucholka, possibly with a female partner, fled to Vienna to work as a translator.

Publications Rolf Voigt, Hände. Eine Sammlung von Handabbildungen großer Toter und Lebender. Mit einer Einführung in die Handkunde von Rolf Voigt und einem kunsthistorischen Geleitwort von Kurt Pfister, Hamburg (Gebrüder Enoch) 1929