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Herlinde Koelbl

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Herlinde Koelbl (*31 October, 1939 in Lindau on Lake Constance) is one of the most renowned German photographic artists. Her comprehensive oeuvre 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. Her photographs have been shown at numerous international exhibitions and are represented in many major collections. Parallel to her books and exhibitions, Herlinde Koelbl frequently also publishes documentary films and video installations on the same subjects. She has received a number of awards for her work, for example, the Dr Erich Salomon Prize in 2001.

One of her most renowned projects, entitled The Traces of Power, is a series of portraits and interviews with leading personalities in German politics and industry, among them Chancellor Angela Merkel and ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Herlinde Koelbl has published more than a dozen books of photography, including Targets (2014), My View (2009), Hair (2007), Bedrooms (2002), Traces of Power (1999), Jewish Portraits (1989), and The German Living Room (1980).

Biography

In 1976 she started working as a photographer for renowned newspapers like The New York Times, Stern, Die Zeit and others.

Her first public success was the photographic book The German Living Room. After that, in 1984, she published the book Men, and in 1996 the book Strong Women, showing bold and honest nude photography. Her book High Society (1986) was a striking portrait of the normally seclusive world of the rich and famous. Her highly impressive Jewish Portraits, published in 1989, exhibited at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, and many other museums, gained numerous awards. Her project Hair, finished in 2007, was first shown in Hamburg at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Arts and Crafts Museum).

With her numerous shows and projects, Herlinde Koelbl has earned an enormous reputation among professionals at home and abroad.

Traces of Power – How office changes people 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, ex-Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, and Frank Schirrmacher. The project was published in 1999, the documentary gaining the Deutscher Kritikerpreis and being nominated for the Grimme Preis. The exhibition was shown at numerous museums, among them the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, the Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, 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.

In 2003, Herlinde Koelbl filmed the documentary Flush and Fame featuring Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre, describing his path through drugs withdrawal.

In 2009, the first major retrospective of her enormous oeuvre, her most comprehensive exhibition, was shown at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. 450 photographs from 30 years, some not previously shown in public, were displayed.

Since 2009, Herlinde Koelbl has written and photographed for the column “What saved me” in the renowned ZEITmagazin. For this column she talked with prominent people all over the world, among them several Nobel Prize-winners, high-ranking politicians, and scientists.

Herlinde Koelbl lives in Munich and Berlin.

Working Methods

Herlinde Koelbl answered an interviewer’s question on whether the subject of her photography has to expose himself or herself: “That’s not the right way of thinking. I intend to tell a story about this person. His or her story. And you can only achieve this through dialogue. [...] People won’t open up for you if they think that you are exposing them. So both have to open up. The portrayed person realizes that I am not judging but accepting. I offer the space and time, not to have to function but to be able to just be.[3]“ Most of Herlinde Koelbl’s projects are on an international scale. For her work Targets, she travelled to 30 countries all over the world and photographed there at military shooting ranges, to show where and how soldiers are trained for their job. This gripping work is completed by interviews with soldiers, telling about their first kill, their family, and their fears. The project was exhibited all over the world, amongst other places at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. (Translated from German- translation approved by Herlinde Koelbl)

QUOTES About the artist (translated from German)

“Mostly large-scale thematic projects, often dealing with societal taboos. Since the end of the 1980s one of Germany’s most widely discussed photographers.” Lexicon of Photographers 1900 – Today “One of her largest projects was Jüdische Portraits (Jewish Portraits). Here she did not limit herself to photographic portraits of world-renowned Jewish personalities of German intellectual background. She also conducted empathically interviews evidencing an in-depth knowledge of the achievements of individual personalities.” Prestel – Lexicon of Photographers Herlinde Koelbl demonstrates that photography is, at heart, a literary activity. Her entire work is the embodiment of a precise strategy for the discovery and exploration of new realms in the nexus of cultural history. Christoph Stölzl “With each new work, Herlinde Koelbl writes a chronicle of the age, similar to the novelists of the past, like a Zola or a Balzac, using merely a different medium.“ Harald Martenstein, Der Tagesspiegel Herlinde Koelbl has held several professorships, a.o. at the Parsons School, New York and the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles. She gives impressive workshops and lectures about photography and her projects.

Documentaries (film)

  • Rausch und Ruhm. (ARD, 2003) Documentary on the drug detox of Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre.
  • Die Meute – Macht und Ohnmacht der Medien. (WDR, 2001)[1]
  • Spuren der Macht (trans: traces of power) – Die Verwandlung des Menschen durch das Amt. (ARD, 1999; 90min)

Exhibitions (selected)

Awards

Opus (excerpt)

Literature

References

Awarded on 25 February 2016 in the Altes Rathaus, Munich

Review at 3sat online: Ein Dokumentarfilm über Journalisten auf der Jagd

dhm.de: Mitteilung zur Ausstellung (accessed on 4 January 2015)

Weblinks

  1. ↑ Rezension bei 3sat online: Ein Dokumentarfilm über Journalisten auf der Jagd
  2. ↑ verliehen am 25. Februar 2016 im Alten Rathaus München


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