Benno Wundshammer

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Benno Wundshammer ( pseudonym : Heinrich Benedikt; born April 11, 1913 in Cologne , † October 1986 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German journalist and press photographer .

Life

Wundshammer completed an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher and gravure photographer in Cologne from 1933 to 1936 . He worked as a journalist (e.g. at Weltbild ), as a sports reporter , war reporter and journalist (e.g. Pinguin , Ruf , Bild , Revue ). From 1937 he worked as a reporter for the Reich Sports Association in Berlin.

As a member of an Air Force propaganda company , he was one of the most important and well-known photo reporters and reporters in the service of the National Socialist regime during the Second World War, alongside Hilmar Pabel , Hanns Hubmann and Alfred Tritschler . From 1942 to 1945 he was a member of the editorial team of Signal, which was illustrated by Nazi propaganda abroad .

After the war he was able to continue his career as a reporter for Quick magazine and editor-in-chief of the celebrity magazine Revue (until 1952). With his photos of post-war celebrities such as Konrad Adenauer , Franz Josef Strauss , Romy Schneider and Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach , he made a significant contribution to shaping German press photography . He also worked as a fashion photographer and dealt early with the possibilities of color photography . A large part of his photographic estate is in the possession of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Picture Archive in Berlin.

The exhibition “Propaganda Photographer in World War II: Benno Wundshammer” (November 2014 – February 2015) in the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst showed his life's work in the context of contemporary history. The exhibition catalog with examples of Wundhammer's photo reports since the early 1930s analyzes the working methods of a German war correspondent .

Works

  • The tasks of image reporting in aerial warfare. In: Karl Weiss (Ed.): The face of the war (= German camera almanac. Issue 31). Berlin 1941, DNB 363603441 , pp. 20-21.
  • Aviators, knights, heroes - with the shark squadron in France and other combat reports. Gütersloh 1941.
  • Lieutenant Kamp. Experiences of a fighter pilot. Gütersloh 1941.
  • Bombs on British ships. Wolfenbüttel 1942.
  • Fire on Olympus. Gütersloh 1944.
  • German Chronicle 1954. Edited by Wilhelm Schlösser. Stuttgart 1955.
  • The little stallion. With Germany's last wild horses. Gütersloh / Munich 1972.
  • with Hans-Jürgen Hansen: Windjammer Parade. Frankfurt a. M. 1972.
  • Knaur's new photo book. From beginner to professional. Munich / Stuttgart 1975.
  • In the footsteps of Odysseus. Sailing ship journeys in antiquity in search of the locations and events of Homer's "Odyssey". Gütersloh 1982.

literature

  • Rainer Rutz: Signal. A German illustrated abroad as a propaganda instrument in World War II. Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-720-8 (also: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2006).
  • German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (ed.): Propaganda photographer in the Second World War. Benno Wundshammer. Translations by Ekaterina Engel, Jennie Seitz. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-815-8 (German, Russian).
  • David F. Crew: Learning War Photography. Benno Wundshammer's Relationship to His Wartime Photographs before and after 1945. Conference paper: The Ethics of Seeing. German Documentary Photography Reconsidered. German Historical Institute , London 23–25 May 2013.

Web links

Commons : Benno Wundshammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (ed.): Propaganda photographer in World War II. Benno Wundshammer . Links Christoph Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-815-8 , p. 48 f . (119 p., Limited preview in Google Book Search - Russian: Военный фотограф во Второй мировой войне. Бенно Вундсхаммер .).
  2. ↑ Manfred H. Burschka: Re-Education and Youth public. Orientation and self-image of German post-war youth in the youth press 1945–1948 . A contribution to the political culture of the post-war period. Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen, Gottingen 1987, OCLC 38699552 (285 pages, limited preview in the Google book search - Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 1991).
  3. ^ Wolfram Bickerich : Franz Josef Strauss. “This man must never become chancellor”. In: spiegel.de, accessed on November 29, 2018 (on the 20th anniversary of Franz Josef Strauss's death).
personal data
SURNAME Wundhammer, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benedikt, Heinrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 1987
Place of death Rottach-Egern