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= Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann = Ahlfeld-Heymann (February 7, 1905 (Cologne) - June 26, 2003 (Haifa)) was a Jewish, German-Israeli woodworker, theater designer, mask and puppet maker. She had early associations with the Bauhaus movement and German theater.

Time at the Bauhaus & Early Career
Marianne Heymann, born on February 7th, 1905 was raised by her mother, Elisabeth Meymann, on Voigtelstraße 9 in Cologne-Braunsfeld. She attended Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium and the Cologne School of Applied Arts with her cousin, Margarete Heymann. In 1923, she joined the Bauhaus and studied sculpture and stage art under Oskar Schlemmer--her artistic interest evolved to include puppet making.

In 1925, following the Bauhaus’ relocation to Dessau, Heymann returned to Cologne and began producing puppets for a puppeteer. She made masks for dances and studied set and costume design with Hans Stohbach at the Cologne Opera from 1926-1928, before working at the Mannheim National Theater as an assistant to Eduard Löffler. From 1928-1930, Heymann designed costumes for the operas: Hoffmanns Erzählungen, Der Freischütz, Die Geschichte vom Soldaten, die Macht des Schicksals, and Peterchens Mondfahrt.

WWII & Move to Israel
Heymann, following the Nazis’ rise to power in April, 1933, fled to Paris, France where she worked as a draftswoman with other emigrants in Saint Maur. She met Herman Ahlfeld (1892-1983), a carpenter, and they married in 1939. She was awarded a prize for costume jewelry at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition and, in 1938, she made puppets for a Belgian play by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Ahlfeld was interned in 1939 and, in May, 1940, Ahlfeld-Heymann was also imprisoned for several months at Camp de Gurs. The couple survived by hiding in the south of France for the rest of the war, and they eventually had their three children. In January, 1949, the family emigrated to Moschaw Kfar Chaim, Israel where they opened a wood carving shop which produced items made from olive trees.

Later Career & Death
Between 1936-1937, she designed for three theater productions in Haifa: Georg Büchner’s Leonce and Lena (1936-37), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail (1937), William Shakespeare’s Was ihr wollt (1937). But it is unclear if those productions actually happened.

In 1950, Ahlfeld-Heymann exhibited her marionettes and masks in Tel Aviv, but without much response. In 1954, the family moved from Haifa. Ahlfeld-Heymann worked for thirty more years as an artist and exhibited her works many times, such as an exhibit of her masks at the Wilfrid Israel Museum in 1972.

In 1955, Ahlfeld-Heymann wrote her memoirs, in German, before giving them to Gretel Baum-Meróm in 1993. In 1994, they were published by Erhard Roy Wiehn in Germany.

In 2019, the Museum for Applied Arts in Cologne included Maragrete and Marianne Heymann’s work in the Retrospective, ''2 von 14. Zwei Kölnerinnen am Bauhaus'' as part of a larger study of the Bauhaus’ 100 year anniversary. The Theater Research Center at Cologne's University also includes her work. Markers were placed on March 19th, 2019 for Ahlfeld-Heymann and her mother at their home in Cologne. In June, 2021, she was memorialized in Der Kölner Frauengeschichtsverein's Frau de Monats.

She died in Haifa on the 26th of June, 2003.