Herlinde Koelbl

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Herlinde Koelbl (born 31 October 1939) is a German photographic artist, author and documentary filmer.

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Her comprehensive work is characterized above all by long-term photographic projects, often complemented by in-depth interviews. She is particularly interested in creating portraits of milieus and people. Herlinde Koelbl has received a number of awards for her photographic work, for example the Dr Erich Salomon Prize in 2001. [1] Since 2009, she has regularly worked as an author and photographer for ZEIT magazine, [2] in the column “What saved me”.

Biography

Herlinde Koelbl was born in Lindau on Lake Constance, Germany, 1939, and grew up there. She studied fashion design in Munich and worked in the field, while becoming a mother of four. In 1975, she discovered her love for photography and taught herself all the necessary techniques.

She taught and gave lectures at the Parsons School in New York, the University of Shanghai, China, the College of the Arts, Sydney, the Art School for Photography, Vienna, and Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles.

Her works are in several private and permanent collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, huis Marseille, stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, and Jewish Museum, Frankfurt a.M.

Koelbl lives in Munich and Berlin. She is an honorary member of the DGPh, BFF hall of fame.

Career

In 1976 she started working as a freelance photographer, for newspapers like The New York Times, [3] Stern, Die Zeit and others. Already 1980 she published her first photobook The German Living Room. She created her typical working approach by photographing methodically a whole series of pictures, displaying a broad spectre of society. Her first internationally noticed success was the photographic book Jewish Portraits in 1989. She photographed and talked to 80 German-speaking Jews, who survived the Shoa. [4] With this book she established her personal style, which she kept in most of the books that followed. She not only took portraits, but also interviewed the portrayed and added large interviews in the book. Traces of Power may be her best-known work so far. She photographed, filmed and interviewed 15 personalities from politics and business from 1991 to 1998, among them Chancellor Angela Merkel, ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and ex-Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. The project was published in 1999, the documentary film with the same title was awarded the Deutscher Kritikerpreis [5] and was nominated for the Grimme Preis. The exhibition was shown at numerous museums, among them the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, [6] the Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, [7] as well as at Art Frankfurt 2002. Chancellor Angela Merkel gave the opening speech at the premiere of the show at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Herlinde Koelbl has published more than 20 books and several documentary films. She has been awarded numerous prizes. 2009 her first large retrospective was shown at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin. [8]

Selected publications

Documentaries/video installations

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

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References

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  2. ↑ "Herlinde Koelbl". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  3. ↑ Hofmann, Paul (1990-06-10). "What's Doing In; Zurich". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-21. "Munich Memorial". The New York Times. 1995-11-19. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  4. ↑ Ivry, Benjamin. "Old Jews Not Telling Jokes". The Forward. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  5. 1 2 "Verband der deutschen Kritiker e.V." 2009-03-07. Archived from the original on 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  6. ↑ "Spuren der Macht". www.dhm.de. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  7. ↑ "Spuren der Macht". Haus der Geschichte. 2000.
  8. ↑ "First Exhibition Covering Entire Oeuvre of Herlinde Koelbl Opens in Berlin". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  9. ↑ O’Hagan, Sean (2014-06-18). "Caught in the crosshairs: the woman who photographs shooting ranges". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  10. ↑ Germany, programm ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam. "Rausch und Ruhm - Popliterat Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre". programm.ARD.de. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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  14. ↑ "TARGETS. FOTOGRAFIEN VON HERLINDE KOELBL - Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Bonn". www.bundeskunsthalle.de. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  15. ↑ "Deutsches Historisches Museum: TARGETS. Herlinde Koelbl". www.dhm.de. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  16. ↑ "Rückblick | www.ludwiggalerie.de". www.ludwiggalerie.de. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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  19. ↑ Oltermann, Philip (2017-04-05). "The many faces of Angela Merkel: 26 years of photographing the German chancellor". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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