Dorothy Anker Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Dorothy Anker 17
A. Craftsmen. Ja, we are more lfke a group of craftsmen considered.
. Well, we're getting too generalized. I want to know whac happened
next to Dorothy. After she got her certificate.
A. I applied for a job which I got with the very famous photographer in
Munich.
Q. What was his name?
A. Vasow. I forgot his flrst name.
Q. Would you like to spell that?
A. V-A-S-0-, do, I think it was V-A-S-0-W. Vasow. HE was a very know
man. He took a lot of pictures of people who were quite prominent In
German public life.
Q. Did you apply because, particularly because you wanted to work w ith
him o r because you wanted to be in %nich?
A. Both. I wanted to be in Munich. 1 always had planned my life that
1 wanted to live in certaln cities. One of them was bhnich.
Q. Did you know Munich we117
A. No, I hadn't seen ILt but just on the trip my mother had gi-ven me
after my graduation and that was the first time that 1 saw Iatnich. But
Ir was always kind of my dream to live rhere. And 1 had planned to see
some other cities hut it came different. My life developed different
from that,
Q. But you gor the job in Munich with 7%. Vasow.
A. I got the job In Munich.
Q. Where did you live in Munich? Again you had to find a place to
live.
A. Ja, rhere I looked now for myself for some quarters and this was In
Schwabing, what this part of Munich was called because this is where
that was, (tape turned off)
Q. Well, I had asked you where you lived. 'L also agkad you where Mr.
Vasow's studio Mas.
A. Now that was on the Txdwigstrasse.
Q. Wich is right downtown in knich, is it not?
A. No, this was further out. And it vas in this artist's part. And I
did ssty somewhere very close to where Hell3 Bolman lived.
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