Archive
Gordian Troeller from Luxembourg and Marie-Claude Deffarge from France worked as a reporter team for the magazine STERN from 1959 to 1969. Henri Nannen, the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine, had brought them to Hamburg as journalists with international experience.
They quickly made a name for themselves with courageous socio-political reporting. Their focus became the Third World. During their ten years at STERN magazine, they reported on almost all the liberation movements of that era.
However, their greatest success was the 25-part series. „The Women of the World“, in which they examined living conditions and attitudes towards family and sexuality in different cultures.
All 80 STERN reports are presented here in chronological order – in the original spelling and punctuation, with the headlines of the original, and with the photos published in STERN. .
The term Negro/Negro woman from the original text is also retained, as this designation was common at the time as an attribution of both self and others without any derogatory connotations.
The photos were mostly taken from the Stern magazine originals. Selecting them from the approximately 70,000 black-and-white images would be too time-consuming. The originals of the entire photo archive are housed in the Museum Folkwang in Essen and are made accessible to the public there.
