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The Surreal Photo of the Braunhart and Brunn Wedding

8/16/2012

15 Comments

 
With complete reverence and respect for the participants in this wedding, especially Frieda Braunhart and Salo Brunn, the bride and groom, I have to say that this is quite the surreal wedding photo.  The photo was taken at their wedding in Berlin, Germany on May 12, 1926.

It reminds me somewhat if one can use their imagination, of the album cover for the Beatles' famous Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It almost looks like some of the photos were pasted in, as in the album cover.

Hopefully some of the activities of the day created some happiness, as the participants do not look like they are having a great time.
Frieda Braunhart and Salo Brunn Wedding Berlin Germany 1926
So let's identify who we can.  The bride is easy to pinpoint and she is of course Frieda Braunhart.  Next to her is her groom Salo Brunn. All the way to the left is the infant Horst Braunhart, in the lap of his mother Else Schmalenbach Braunhart, and behind Else her husband Philipp Braunhart.   In the middle of the photo (next to the bald man with his eyes closed, and behind the bride), is Frieda's older sister Selma Braunhart.  The bald man with his eyes closed is Frieda's brother Carl Braunhart, and next to him is his wife Hedwig Bukofzer Braunhart.  Directly behind Hedwig is another of Frieda's brothers, Theodor Braunhart.  The gentleman who is to the left of Selma Braunhart is Salo's brother Leo Brunn, and the gentleman way to the right who also has a bowtie on is another of Salo's brothers, Maurice Brunn.  Finally, next to Salo is his mother Frieda Brunn.


With appreciation to Miriam Brunn Matranga for providing this photo, and to Stuart Matranga for scanning it.
15 Comments
Clyde Pound
10/5/2012 04:12:17 am

That is one strange photo. The angles of the framed pictures on the wall behind the people is very weird. Like a Count Dracula movie. I think this may be some sort of composite

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Jana Last link
12/20/2012 04:49:56 am

Wow! Surreal is right! The expressions on most everyone's faces is so strange. They must have been caught off-guard when the photo was taken. It really doesn't look like the typical happy wedding photo, that's for sure!

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Kenneth R Marks link
12/29/2012 07:17:09 am

Thanks, Jana. It has been my experience from owning many photos of Germans from the late 1800s through the 1930s that they rarely smiled in photographs. So I believe that that contributes significantly as well as being caught off guard for sure.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo link
12/20/2012 05:50:02 am

This does look like a composite. My husband's family has an odd one like this. It shows his Dad as a small boy, with his siblings and parents. The odd thing is that the grandfather in this photo died (executed during the Spanish Civil War) when all the kids were babies (one hadn't even been born yet). It hung on the wall for years, and everyone had copies. You can see where the grandfather (my husband's great grandfather) had been pasted in. This one is pretty skillfully done, even though it looks odd. Perhaps some of the people couldn't be at the wedding (because of distance or death?)

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Kenneth R Marks link
12/29/2012 07:20:25 am

Thanks Heather for your thoughts. It is not a composite however. The owner is the daughter of the wedding couple and I asked her that question. She assured me that it was not. Combine some odd angles with no smiling (as Germans often did not in that era for photos) and some folks not ready for the photo - results in a very strange photo experience.

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Rorey Cathcart link
12/21/2012 03:50:12 am

Strangely facinating! I find myself really looking at each expression. The baby looks happy enough though. Thanks so much for sharing.

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Kenneth R Marks link
12/29/2012 07:22:13 am

Thanks Rorey for your comments. As I have stated earlier in other comments - Germans did not smile in that era in photographs.

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Celia Lewis link
12/22/2012 05:58:33 am

Not the best candid photograph, was it. :( Imagine having that in your photograph album to pull out and share with friends and other family members!! Boggles the mind. Lovely sharing of all this information, Ken/Kenneth

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Kenneth R Marks link
12/29/2012 07:24:45 am

Thanks Celia - I just don't think the subjects were ready for the photo to be snapped.

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