Alfred A. Haase

Alfred A. Haase 1978

Alfred Alois Haase (born September 21, 1929 in Trautenau , Bohemia ; † January 11, 2017 in Munich ) was a German press and photo book photographer .

From the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, Haase was a main representative of press photography in Munich. His monograph Burgen, Schlösser und Klöster in Bayern (1978) with over 300 photos, edited with Hans-Günter Richardi (text), is a standard work on this topic to this day.

Life and career

At the age of 10, Haase had his first camera ( Agfa Billy Clack ). After being expelled from his Sudeten German homeland (1945), Haase lived in Upper Austria for a few years . In 1953 he moved to Munich , which became his “second home”.

Haase completed a two-year training as a press photographer at the Institute for Photojournalism in Munich (1953–1955) as the best of his year. Haase then worked freelance for various daily newspapers, illustrated weekly and semi- monthly magazines , monthly magazines , specialist magazines and press agencies. Haase photographed reports at home and abroad for the magazines . Haase had been a permanent employee of the Münchner Abendzeitung since 1965 .

As a “ mad reporter ”, Alfred A. Haase documented daily events and nationally significant events in the Munich area. In the four decades of his work, Haase photographed not only the proverbial "little man" in his various facets, but also countless politicians, crowned and uncrowned heads , church princes, business leaders , scientists , artists , sports , radio and television greats , people of contemporary history as well as representatives from high society and jet set from all over the world.

The following photo motifs by Alfred A. Haase have become classics :

the Communard couple Uschi Obermaier and Rainer Langhans (1969)
Silvia Sommerlath (later Queen Silvia of Sweden ) in “mask” at the carnival ball “Carnival in Rio” in the Munich Hotel Bayerischer Hof (around 1970) and as head hostess of the Olympic Games in Munich (1972);
Empty highway on a car-free Sunday during the 1973 oil crisis ;
Portrait of the writer and screenwriter Patrick Süskind (1986).

Alfred A. Haase had been a member since 1956, and from January 1988 to April 1994 also deputy chairman of the picture specialist group in the Bavarian Association of Journalists (BJV). Haase strongly advocated an obligation for newspaper publishers to state the name of the photographer when publishing photos. It has long been common practice to name the authors of text contributions .

Between 1983 and 1985 Alfred A. Haase wrote a series of practical reports on innovations on the camera market for the magazine fotoMAGAZIN .

Alfred A. Haase had been retired since 1994. Haase's photographic estate (including photos of castles, palaces and monasteries in Bavaria ) is managed by the archive of the Süddeutscher Verlag and the hand archive of the Münchner Abendzeitung .

Illustrated books

Castles, palaces and monasteries in Bavaria (with Hans-Günter Richardi; text); Ringier, Munich a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-85859-051-7 .
Dachau. Guide through the old town, the artists' colony and the concentration camp memorial (with Hans-Günter Richardi; text); Passavia, Passau 1979, ISBN 3-87616-074-X .

Individual evidence

↑ SZ obituary from February 25, 2017.
^ The founder and head of the institute, Hans Schreiner, was head of the photo journalism department at the Bavarian State School for Photography in Munich.
↑ Following this training, Haase took a course in Agfacolor , the only color negative process for amateurs at the time.
^ Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) (Munich), Münchner Merkur (Munich), Abendzeitung (AZ) (Munich) (from June 1954) and 8 Uhr-Blatt (Munich edition) (from 1957/58)
↑ v. a. Münchner Illustrierte (weekly magazine of the 1950s), Quick , Revue , Stern und Feuerreiter (Cologne; Catholic bi-monthly magazine of the 1950s )
↑ z. B. the (then) Swiss magazine Vital and the noble magazine Epoca ( Mondadori-Verlag , Milan)
↑ v. a. Associated Press (AP), United Press (UP), Keystone , Popperfoto and German Press Agency (dpa)
^ Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : Keywords "Uschi Obermaier" and "Rainer Langhans" (image numbers 38204, 38206, 38208, 38209, 38211, 38212 and 109497)
↑ Abendzeitung (Munich): hand archive
^ Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung: Keyword "Car Free Sunday" (picture number 43212)
^ Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung: Keyword "Patrick Süskind" (picture number 59502)

personal data
SURNAME	Haase, Alfred A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haase, Alfred Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German press and photo book photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trautenau , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	January 11, 2017
Place of death	Munich

[1] SZ obituary from February 25, 2017.

[2] The founder and head of the institute, Hans Schreiner, was head of the photo journalism department at the Bavarian State School for Photography in Munich.

[3] Following this training, Haase took a course in Agfacolor , the only color negative process for amateurs at the time.

[4] Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) (Munich), Münchner Merkur (Munich), Abendzeitung (AZ) (Munich) (from June 1954) and 8 Uhr-Blatt (Munich edition) (from 1957/58)

[5] v. a. Münchner Illustrierte (weekly magazine of the 1950s), Quick , Revue , Stern und Feuerreiter (Cologne; Catholic bi-monthly magazine of the 1950s )

[6] z. B. the (then) Swiss magazine Vital and the noble magazine Epoca ( Mondadori-Verlag , Milan)

[7] v. a. Associated Press (AP), United Press (UP), Keystone , Popperfoto and German Press Agency (dpa)

[8] Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : Keywords "Uschi Obermaier" and "Rainer Langhans" (image numbers 38204, 38206, 38208, 38209, 38211, 38212 and 109497)

[9] Abendzeitung (Munich): hand archive

[10] Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung: Keyword "Car Free Sunday" (picture number 43212)

[11] Archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung: Keyword "Patrick Süskind" (picture number 59502)