With "Ulla and Horst" or "Lothar", photographer Gundula Schulze Eldowy, who now lives in Peru and Berlin, encountered people in East Berlin in the 1980s whose loneliness, poverty, and despair, but also whose pride and simple happiness, deeply impressed her. The photographs from the series "Berlin aus einer Hundenacht" are a tribute to old Berlin and tell of history of the time and human dignity with a subtle, authentic gaze.
| 1954 | born in Erfurt |
| 1972 | Studied at the Fachschule für Werbung und Gestaltung Berlin (FSWG) |
| 1979-1984 | studied photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) under Horst Thorau; begin of photographic cycles with changing styles, initially in black and white |
| 1977-1989 | creation of the cycles ″Tamerlan″, ″Berlin. In einer Hundenacht″, ″Arbeit″, ″Aktportrait″, ″Straßenbild″, ″Der Wind füllt sich mit Wasser″ |
| 1984-1990 | ″Der große und der kleine Schritt″, ″Den Letzten beißen die Hunde″ |
| 1985 | first encounter with the American photographer Robert Frank, who invites her to New York |
| 1990 | scholarship of the Kunstring Folkwang, Essen; ″Waldo's Schatten″ (cycle) |
| 1991 | trips to italy |
| 1990-1993 | travels to the USA, ″Spinning on my Heels″ (cycle) and ″Die Wahrheit ist eine versunkene Stadt″ (film) |
| 1993-2000 | travels to Egypt, ″Ägyptische Tagebücher″ (cycle), ″Die Mumien der Pharaonen″ (film) |
| 1996/97 | trip to Japan, ″Das flüssige Ohr″ (cycle), ″Eine halbe Stunde Zeit″ (film); photo prize ″The 12th Prize for Overseas Photographers of Higashikawa Foto Fiesta '96″, Japan |
| 1997 | journey to Moscow, ″Das Blatt verliert den Baum - Moskau 1997″ (cycle); journey to Turkey, ″Das lebendige Bild″ (cycle) |
| 2000 | New Zealand Photography Award ″M.I.L.K.″ |
| 2001 | art scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bonn; travel to Peru and Bolivia, ″Das unfassbare Gesicht″ (cycle) |
| 2004 | Founding of the Casa de Arte ″El rosto inconecible″ in Peru (with Javiar A. Garcia Vásquez) |
| 2004-2009 | ″Eulenschrei des Verborgenen″ (cycle) |
| 2004-2011 | further trips to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador |
| 2009 | ″Im Herbstlaub des Vergessens″ (film) |
| 2010 | member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste |
| 2012 | ″Halt die Ohren steif″ (cycle), exchange of letters and photographs by Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Robert Frank |
| 2013 | ″Tänzerflügel - Die verlorene Geschichte″ (narrations) |
| 2000-2013 | ″Die Beschwörung des Ichs″ (cycle) |
| 2015 | ″Tönende Bibliothek″ (cycle); ″Meeresfossilien in den Anden″ (cycle), ″Mumien, Agypten-Peru, 1996-2016″ (cycle); ″Chachapoyas″ (cycle) |
| 2016 | travel to Easter Island |
| 1993/2018 | ″DIAMANTENSTRASSE″ (film) |
| 2019 | member of the Berliner Akademie der Künste |
| 2018-2022 | ″Chacalón″ (cycle) |
| 1993/2021 | ″Die Frau am Kreuz″ (film) |
| In addition to her photographic and film work, she has written 20 stories, 200 poems, numerous essays, sound collages and songs. Gundula Schulze Eldowy has traveled to forty countries and learned four languages | |
| lives in Berlin, Peru and travels |
