Albert Zander

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Albert Zander (born January 1, 1864 in Colmar near Posen ; † August 12, 1897 in Berlin ) was a German engineer , photographer and entrepreneur . He was instrumental in the creation of the German tabloid press .

As an engineer, he was initially employed at the Berlin machine works Carl Flohr . On May 26, 1895, Zander photographed a fire that broke out on the company premises. Two of his recordings of this event were published by the Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung .

Together with a partner, the businessman and photographer Siegmund Labisch , who also comes from the Posen area , he founded the photo studio Zander & Labisch-Illustrations-Photographen in Berlin on June 19, 1895 , which developed into the first German photo agency that worked in the spirit of photojournalism created and distributed daily recordings for press organs.

The photo studio developed considerably until Zander's early death: ten percent of all press photos published by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in 1897 came from Zander & Labisch.

literature

  • Anna Rosemann: Zander & Labisch - On the trail of a well-known photo agency . Master's thesis on the history of the photo agency Zander & Labisch, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Chair for German-Jewish literary and cultural history, exile and migration, February 2017

Web links

Commons : Zander & Labisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zander and Labisch . In: Deutsche Fotothek. From: deutschefotothek.de, accessed on July 29, 2017.
  2. ^ The beginnings of tabloid journalism in Germany . (Photo: Zander & Labisch: Anton von Werner in conversation with Adolph von Menzel, Berlin, 1900) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. From: sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Christine Walther: Winner Types: on the photographic mediation of a social self-image around 1900 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-8260-3510-4 , p. 45.
  4. ^ Machine factory Flohr . From: luise-berlin.de, accessed on July 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Issue 21 (1895), p. 4.
  6. ↑ Berlin Commercial Register 91 HRA 13725 +40
  7. ^ Anna Rosemann: Zander & Labisch (1895-1939) - On the trail of a well-known photo agency . In: Photo History, Issue 144 (2017). From: fotogeschichte.info, accessed on July 29, 2017.
  8. ↑ Bernd Weise: Photography in German magazines, part: 1883–1923. (= Exhibition series Photography in Germany from 1850 to today) Institute for Foreign Relations (Ed.), Stuttgart 1991, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Zander, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, photographer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar near Poznan
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1897
Place of death Berlin