Rolf Gillhausen

Rolf Gillhausen (born May 31, 1922 in Cologne , † February 22, 2004 in Hamburg ) was a German reportage photographer and journalist.

Life

After finishing school, Rolf Gillhausen completed an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering in Cologne and began studying engineering, which he was unable to complete because of the Second World War. After the end of the war and imprisonment, he worked as a miner in the district near Cologne. During this time he came to photography self-taught and bought a Leica . In 1948 he moved to Heidelberg, made the acquaintance of Fred Ihrt , whose assistant he was until 1951. Gillhausen's first recordings appeared in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung ; from 1951 he worked for the Associated Press as a photo reporter for five years and fell through spectacular photo reports, e. B. on the Hungarian uprising in 1956. In 1956 Henri Nannen brought him to the Stern . From 1958 to 1961 he made extensive trips through China, India and Africa with Joachim Heldt . In 1964 he took over the title design of the Stern from Karl Pawek .

When Gillhausen was to become editor-in-chief of Quick magazine in 1965 , this prevented the management of "Stern" and appointed him deputy "Stern" editor-in-chief. In 1976 he founded the science magazine GEO , of which he was editor-in-chief until 1978. Then Gillhausen returned to the "Stern" and was editor-in-chief of this magazine from 1980 to 1983 together with Felix Schmidt and Peter Koch . After Schmidt and Koch resigned due to the publication of the forged Hitler diaries , Gillhausen shared the office of editor-in-chief with Peter Scholl-Latour from May 1983 , before both resigned in March 1984 and were replaced by Rolf Winter .

Lexical entry

Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-5433-6

Individual evidence

↑ In the opinion of the long-time Stern editor Günther Schwarberg , photographer Gillhausen used questionable methods (also for the series from Hungary). Schwarberg gives a short portrait on pages 242 and 243 of his memoirs I'll never forget that , Göttingen 2007.

Web links

Literature by and about Rolf Gillhausen in the catalog of the German National Library
Former stern editor-in-chief Rolf Gillhausen has died ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) - Stern's obituary

Rolf Gillhausen: "I was a good doer" ( Memento from March 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) - Interview with Rolf Gillhausen from 1998

Visual story. The sheet maker: Rolf Gillhausen

personal data
SURNAME	Gillhausen, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German reportage photographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DATE OF DEATH	February 22, 2004
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] In the opinion of the long-time Stern editor Günther Schwarberg , photographer Gillhausen used questionable methods (also for the series from Hungary). Schwarberg gives a short portrait on pages 242 and 243 of his memoirs I'll never forget that , Göttingen 2007.