Anton Tripp

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Anton "Toni" Tripp (born August 2, 1911 in Essen , † August 2, 1991 in Düsseldorf ) was a German photographer and publicist .

Life

Tripp's career as a photographer began in 1929 with studies at the Folkwang School with Max Burchartz in Essen, which he broke off after a short time. From 1937 to 1940 Tripp completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. After the Second World War he first came to Schlüchtern , where he was appointed district administrator in 1946. However, the appointment was revoked by the US military government after only two days due to his membership of the KPD .

From 1947 Tripp worked as a photographer, mainly serving the genre of worker photography . A staunch communist himself, he worked as a journalist and photo editor for socialist magazines such as “Arbeiterfotografie” , “Die Liga” , “Frau und Frieden” or “Poeten für den Frieden” . He documented mine closures, protest and Easter marches , labor disputes and the everyday life of the working class on the Rhine and Ruhr. Between 1951 and 1969 he ran the TT picture service in Düsseldorf, with which he supplied numerous newspapers, such as the Spiegel , as well as news and press agencies .

As a pensioner, Tripp devoted himself more and more to writing and poetry.

In addition to his work as an artist and journalist, Tripp became known for his commitment to endangered ground monuments in the Rhineland. For example, he campaigned for archaeological excavations on the grounds of the Düsseldorf Schlösser Brewery and for the complete preservation of Haus Bürgel . He was also actively involved in the design of the history trail "Millennium Stones" in Düsseldorf-Garath .

Works

  • Balthasar in the shop. Self-published, Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • Park chant. Peters, Hanau 1979. ISBN 3-87627-034-0
  • Ravages of time. Offizin de Hripu, Frankfurt am Main 1983.
  • Palette of the poet. Offizin de Hripu, Windecken 1986.
  • Drops on a hot stove plate. Offizin de Hripu, Nidderau 1993. ISBN 3-9803450-5-X

Collections

The photo archive of the Ruhr Museum in Essen owns around 200,000 photo negatives from Tripp's estate. The photo archive of his son Manfred Tripp with other negatives from his father's estate is in the archive of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research .

literature

  • Manfred Tripp (Ed.): Toni-Tripp- For the 100th birthday of the photographer and writer. Neue Impulse Verlag, Essen 2011 (= special edition of the magazine Arbeiterfotografie. 28th year, issue 95, 2011) ISSN  0173-9530

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=18043
  2. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 1991 edition; Rheinische Post, issue of June 20, 1991.
  3. ^ Westdeutsche Zeitung, July 19, 1990 edition; Express, July 24, 1990 edition.
  4. ↑ http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=16633
personal data
SURNAME Tripp, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tripp, Toni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1991
Place of death Dusseldorf