| Dates | 1901 - 1984 |
| Roles | Photographer |
| Nationality | German |
| Born | Berlin, Germany |
| Died | Molln, Germany |
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 the Eiffel Tower as a powerful, geometric amusement. She later photographed the Ruhr River Valley in Germany, a heavily industrialized mining region that became the site of continuous Allied bombings during Word War II. According to her daughter, Thalemann's studio was destroyed during the war.