Biography (selected list):
1931 - Born in Berlin by the name of Vera Sulamith Leiner
1936 - Emigration to Switzerland
1938/49 - School in Teufen/Trogen, Appenzell, Switzerland
1942 - Her parents were killed in Auschwitz
1949 - Apprenticeship as a medical assistant,
University Hospital, Bern.
1963/68 - "Dreamtime", tapestries
1968/78 - "Programmierungen", reliefs, objects
1978/84 - "Chromos-omen", DNA-Story, written reliefs on lead
1964/86 - Prizes & Commissions:
Textile wall installation, Zuerich;
Concrete wall relief in swimming pool, Basel;
Wall fresco, Basel, etc.
1980 - Concentration in photography -
(photoreports for medias, art/architecture/ doc.)
1982 - Photobook "Kunst der Verweigerung"*,
Graffitis in Swiss youth centers
1986 - Photobook "Schaut uns an"*, portraits of people over 80
1987 - Photobook "Maess auf dem Petersplatz"
1988 - Photobook "Spitzen-Plaetze"*, (portraits of The Swiss Elite)
1992 - Photobook "Switch", portraits of photographers
1992 - Photobook "Face to Face", portraits of artists
1995 - Photobook "Mario Botta, Bank am Aeschenplatz Basel"*
1997 - Death of sister Adele
1998 - Falling ill from breast cancer, Mastectomy
2000 - "Auch Ich", Autobiography
Since 2000 Video Films
Vera Isler-Leiner, Directing, Camera, Editing
New Stills in 2007
Inspired from my Video 42nd Manhattan, NY "Bits and Pieces" DVD 28' |