Alfred Tritschler

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Alfred Tritschler (born June 12, 1905 in Offenburg , † December 31, 1970 in Offenberg in the Bavarian Forest) was a German photographer .

Life

Alfred Tritschler was born on June 12, 1905 as the fifth child of the married couple Monika and Otto Tritschler. His father was a businessman and ran a well-known delicatessen store in Offenburg. After finishing school in April 1921, he completed an apprenticeship as a photographer in his hometown of Offenburg. In 1924/25 he attended the Higher Technical School for Photo Technology in Munich and was then brought to the UFA in Babelsberg. 1927, Tritschler together with Paul Wolff , the photo agency "Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler ”in Frankfurt am Main , which was one of the most successful photo agencies in Germany, especially in the 1930s and 1940s. It was of particular importance in the field of industrial and advertising photography. In 1935 he became a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner eV (GDL). In 1936 he was a photo reporter on board the airship Hindenburg on its first trip to South America. Many recordings attest to this trip from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro and back again. In the same year, Alfred Tritschler and Dr. Paul Wolff the Summer Olympics in Berlin. The pictures became known through the book publication "What I saw at the Olympic Games in 1936". This book was printed in four languages. Alfred Tritschler and Paul Wolff also dealt early with the then new color photography . During the war Tritschler worked as a war correspondent for a propaganda company . In 1943, for example, he photographed the so-called “Battery Lindemann” on the Atlantic Wall . In 1944, Alfred Tritschler's house in Frankfurt-Ginnheim was destroyed by a bomb attack. His wife Hägeli, who was available to him as a model for several series of photos, was killed in it. After the death of Paul Wolff in 1951, Tritschler continued to run the picture agency alone until 1963. In June 1963 he left the company at his own request. In 1969 he moved from Frankfurt to Offenberg / Wolfstein in the Bavarian Forest. He died on New Year's Eve 1970. The archive “Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler ”today covers the period from 1927 to 1970 and has a negative inventory of approx. 500,000 images. It is family owned.

Illustrated books

  • Paul Wolff: My experiences ... colorful. With 53 35 mm color photos by Paul Wolff, Alfred Tritschler and Rudolf Hermann. Frankfurt am Main 1936 (2nd edition 1948)
  • Paul Wolff: What I saw at the 1936 Olympic Games. Berlin 1936
  • Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos) / Paul Georg Ehrhardt (text): work. Berlin 1937
  • Alfons Paquet (text) / Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos): The Rhine. Vision and reality. Düsseldorf 1940
  • Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos) / Eberhard Beckmann (text): Germany. A series of photos of the US-Zone, its towns and villages, their past and present. Frankfurt am Main 1948 (2nd edition 1949)
  • Adolf Reitz (text) / Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Advance into the invisible. Ulm 1948
  • Heinz Todtmann (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Small car on a long journey. An experience report, Verlag Dr. Franz Burda, Offenburg 1949
  • Erich Walch (text) / Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Beauty on the way. Heering-Verlag, Seebruck am Chiemsee 1949
  • Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler / Hans Saebens u. a. (Photos) / Eberhard Beckmann / Harald Busch (texts): Germany: South, West, North. An illustrated book of the German landscape, its cities, villages and people. Frankfurt am Main 1950
  • Hermann Schnitzler (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): The Aachen Cathedral. Düsseldorf 1950
  • Heinrich Hauser (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): daughter of Europe Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1951
  • Heinrich Hauser (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Our fate: German industry. Munich 1952
  • Heinz Todtmann (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): The industry of magicians. Munich 1952
  • Eberhard Schulz (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): The golden roof. Munich 1952
  • Helmut Alt (text) / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Black bread. The Eschweiler Mining Association on its 120th birthday. Munich 1958
  • Alfred Tritschler: Miners. People and fates at the Eschweiler Mining Association. Munich 1961
  • Alfred Tritschler: Steam locomotive construction: photographs of the 50 series. Cologne 1997
  • Dr. CT Wiskott (text) / Paul Wolff / Alfred Tritschler (photos): Greece experienced in the car, with 80 pictures. Munich 1936

Literature (chronological)

  • Iris Metje: Alfred Tritschler. Medieval photography (volume accompanying the special exhibition in the Museum Schnütgen Cologne). Greven, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7743-0925-8 .
  • Werner Schollenberger: Automobiles in the 1930s - photos from the famous Dr. Paul Wolff & Tritschler . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88255-898-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Alfred Tritschler with Dr. Paul Wolff and Tritschler: Historical picture archive
personal data
SURNAME Tritschler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1970
Place of death Offenberg