Tag: Chronicler
Peter Magubane, South African photographer and chronicler of apartheid, has died
Black South African photojournalist Peter Magubane, who for decades chronicled the violence of the racist apartheid regime, including the 1976 Soweto student uprising, died Monday at the age of 91,…
Klaus Kordon on his 80th birthday: chronicler from below – culture
It is the first winter after the First World War. 13-year-old Helmuth Gebhardt, known as Helle, and his family live at Ackerstrasse 37 in the working-class district of Wedding. The…
Interview with Nan Goldin: chronicler of the queer scene
Nan Goldin welcomes us to a detached small townhouse in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives on the second floor. Open stucco fireplace, creaking floorboards, bohemian ambience. She is best…
Kurt Benning – Chronicler of the Ephemeral – Bavaria
On a gray day in November 1990, Kurt Benning set out from Munich on a journey that took him back to his childhood. His destination was the village of Waldau…
Kurt Benning – Chronicler of the Ephemeral – Bavaria
On a gray day in November 1990, Kurt Benning set out from Munich on a journey that took him back to his childhood. His destination was the village of Waldau…
Tutzing: Reading of the “unclouded chronicler” Max Goldt – Starnberg
Journalistic care can certainly not hurt this story. The colleagues from picture-Zeitung categorized Max Goldt as “socially absolutely unacceptable” at the turn of the millennium: “It’s bad people who do…
Film director: chronicler, poet and narrator: Edgar Reitz turns 90
film director Chronicler, poet and narrator: Edgar Reitz turns 90 Director Edgar Reitz at the Venice Film Festival. photo © Stefanie Rex/dpa What drives the Germans? Edgar Reitz has been…
Unterföhring mourns local chronicler Heinrich Frey – district of Munich
There was hardly a question about Unterföhring’s history that the long-time local chronicler Heinrich Frey didn’t have an answer to. And if it did, then he researched until he found…
Günther Rühle died: As a theater chronicler, he was an authority – culture
Most recently, Günther Rühle did what this critic and chronicler of the theater was best at, despite progressive blindness: to write. This does not mean the work on the third…
Illusionless chronicler of the GDR: photographer Evelyn Richter dies – culture
As Evelyn Richter for the women’s newspaper in the early 1980s To you was allowed to photograph Saxon worsted spinners, the result was, well, too realistic for the cultural functionaries…