We present the B -band Tully–Fisher relation ( TFR ) of 60 late–type galaxies with redshifts 0.1 - 1 .
The galaxies were selected from the FORS Deep Field with a limiting magnitude of R = 23 .
Spatially resolved rotation curves were derived from spectra obtained with FORS2 at the VLT .
High-mass galaxies with v _ { max } \gtrsim 150 km/s show little evolution , whereas the least massive systems in our sample are brighter by \sim 1 - 2 mag compared to their local counterparts .
For the entire distant sample , the TFR slope is flatter than for local field galaxies ( -5.77 \pm 0.45 versus -7.92 \pm 0.18 ) .
Thus , we find evidence for evolution of the slope of the TFR with redshift on the 3 \sigma level .
This is still true when we subdivide the sample into three redshift bins .
We speculate that the flatter tilt of our sample is caused by the evolution of luminosities and an additional population of blue galaxies at z \gtrsim 0.2 .
The mass dependence of the TFR evolution also leads to variations for different galaxy types in magnitude-limited samples , suggesting that selection effects can account for the discrepant results of previous TFR studies on the luminosity evolution of late–type galaxies .