Else Thalemann worked as a photojournalist in Berlin in the 1930s. She worked as Ernst Fuhrmann's assistant at the Folkwang Auriga-Archiv in Essen. Little else is known about her life and work, due in part to the fact that much of her published work was credited to others. Her output ranged from formal studies to political photo-essays. Thalemann visited Paris in the 1920s, where she photographed