Bettina Flitner
Bettina Flitner (born October 29, 1961 in Cologne ) is a German photographer . She lives and works in Cologne and Berlin .
Life
Bettina Flitner is the granddaughter of Wilhelm Flitner and Elisabeth Flitner and the niece of Andreas Flitner . She went to school in Cologne, New York and Perugia. She trained as a cutter at WDR and studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . Her first films received multiple awards. Bettina Flitner has been working primarily as a photographer since 1990, and has been an associate member of the laif photography agency since 1992 .
On June 2, 2018, she married the feminist Alice Schwarzer .
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Flitner's artistic works often have a serial character and combine image and text, mostly quotations from those portrayed. For example her report from no man's land , the photo series about the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, for which she asked people from East and West how they felt. Or the work Neighbors on the riots in Hoyerswerda and the trilogy Mein Herz. My enemy. My memorial from the years 1992 to 1995. “Living pictures full of poetry, a rare balance between pathos and normality. Images and sentences that hypnotize the viewer, ”wrote Zeit Magazin.
Bettina Flitner worked between genres from the start: between documentary journalism and staged fiction. The focus is always on people. Flitner's early installations in public space were groundbreaking and with which she "has infiltrated the art world and pushed its boundaries since the 1990s." Her award-winning work I am proud to be a right wing about right-wing radical youth, which she staged as a room installation at ART Cologne 2001, sparked controversial discussions. "The pictures speak exactly what Hannah Arendt called the 'banality of evil' decades ago," was the rationale of the jury of the "Rückblende 2000" for the special prize for political photography. In 2004, Bettina Flitner's portrait book Women with Visions was published . She traveled all over Europe and portrayed women who have shaped the continent beyond their own country, heads of state and human rights activists, artists and writers. “Bettina Flitner, her name has long been considered a trademark for idiosyncratic photo concepts that often have a documentary character, but mostly tell very personal stories. [...] Flitner carefully plays with contrasts. Those pictures never seem composed or put on. It almost seems as if it is magically connected to the personalities as if by a transparent band, ”said the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
The exhibition, which she conceived together with the architect Dörte Gatermann , toured Europe. Flitner continued portraying female “role models” with her work Frauen die forschen , for which she photographed 25 top German female researchers . These portraits are also touring as an exhibition. Most recently she photographed people, individuals and groups on the banks of the Rhine. “With a theatrical flair, Bettina Flitner creates scenarios that trigger a flood of associations. [...] In her new work from the Boatpeople cycle , the native of Cologne moves elegiacally between farewell and arrival. "
Photo books
- The apple tree principle. 11 personalities on the question: “What remains?” Published by the initiative “My legacy does good. The Apple Tree Principle ", Past Publishing, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86408-182-8 (With Egon Bahr , Günter Grass , Margot Käßmann , Dieter Mann , Ulf Merbold , Reinhold Messner , Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , Anne-Sophie Mutter , Friede Springer , Richard von Weizsäcker , Wim Wenders ).
- Travel in Burma. With texts by Alice Schwarzer. DuMont, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9424-6 .
- Boat people. Photographs, Bettina Flitner, Cologne / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-036772-4 .
- Barbara Schneider-Kempf (Ed.): The State Library and I: Bettina Flitner portrays 24 personalities with treasures from the State Library in Berlin - Prussian cultural property. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Berlin State Library, House Potsdamer Strasse, from September 21 to December 30, 2011. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88053-169-7 .
- with Jeanne Rubner : women who research. 25 top female researchers. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89910-402-8 .
- Women with vision - 48 European women . With texts by Alice Schwarzer. Knesebeck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89660-357-4 .
- L'Europe au Fèminin. Personnalités d'exception. Éditions de la Martinière, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7324-3163-X .
- People like you and me . Corridor, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-9804354-6-6 .
- Right in the heart . Reports and installations. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-89466-230-1 .
- My heart. My enemy. My memorial . Three photo essays. EMMA-Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-922670-35-0 .
- Caught in the zoo. Animals behind bars Edited by Virginia McKenna , Bill Travers and Jonathan Wray, Zweiausendeins , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-86150-000-0 .
- Report from no man's land. Report from No-Man's Land . Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88520-401-0 .
- Not born a woman . Photo portraits by Bettina Flitner. EMMA-Verlag , Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-922670-16-4 .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1990: Photo gallery at Helsingforser Platz, Berlin
- 1991: Elefanten-Press Galerie, Berlin
- 1992: Grauwert-Galerie, Hamburg
- 1993: Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1994: My memorial photo installation on the Josef-Haubrich-Hof, Cologne
- 1995: Fotoforum, Lucerne, Switzerland
- 1996: The Avenger of Dresden at the Theater der Welt Festival , Dresden
- 1997: Photo installations in the city center of Potsdam, Cologne, Bern, Hamburg
- 1998: Suermondt Ludwig Museum , Aachen
- 1999: Loeper Gallery, Hamburg
- 2001: ART Cologne, support booth for young artists, Loeper gallery
- 2002: Museum for Communication Berlin
- 2003: ART Cologne, gallery by Loeper
- 2004: Swiss Re, Munich
- 2005: Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
- 2005: Galerie 6811, forum young art
- 2005: Ulm town hall
- 2007: Biblioteca National, Madrid
- 2008: Visual Gallery, Photokina
- 2009: Urania, Berlin
- 2011: Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
- 2011: The State Library and I , Berlin State Library - SPK
- 2011: Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, USA
- 2012: Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
- 2013: Kunstverein Sundern
- 2014: What is the GDR for you? Mestlin cultural center
- 2014 "Freier", laif photo gallery, Cologne
- 2014 "Report from No Man's Land", Galerie Raab, Berlin
- 2015 “Escape, Asylum, Protest? We have to talk! ”, Leipzig Contemporary History Forum
- 2015: "Face to Face", retrospective with photo essays from 25 years, Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne
- 2016 "Report from No Man's Land", Leica Gallery Hamburg
Group exhibitions
- 1991: War for Peace Elefanten-Press Galerie, Berlin
- 1993: They call it Liebe Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
- 1995: Passagen Galerie Tammen and Busch, Berlin
- 1996: Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
- 1997: House of History, Bonn
- 1998: KölnKunst 5, Kunsthalle Cologne
- 1999: ART Cologne, gallery by Loeper
- 2003: wonderlands , Museum Küppersmühle Grothe Collection
- 2006: Am Strom , Galerie Holtmann, Cologne
- 2008: Positions of Photography Today II , Galerie Holtmann
- 2008: German Historical Museum Berlin: The world in upheaval
- Young photo journalism of the nineties
- 2008: FSMGallery Fondazione Studio Marangoni
- 2008: Positions of Photography Today II
- 2009: Photo Festival Lodz
- 2009: Nei Liicht Art Center, Galeries Dudelange, Luxembourg
- 2010: "turning times"
- 2016 "Awakening - Pictures from Germany", Willy Brandt House Berlin
- 2016 "Sex for Sale", photobastei Zurich, with Yoshiko Kusano and Roland Iselin
Filmography
- Me , short film, 1988.
- Das Fest , documentary, WDR 1989.
- File number xx-unsolved , RTL 1991.
- My Enemy , documentary, 1994.
- The Minister , documentary, WDR 1999.
Films about Bettina Flitner
- "Photos like a film in your head" Author: Sabine Stadtmueller, WDR, 1992, 29 min
- "Through the eye to the heart", author: Carsten Hueck, Deutsche Welle, 2002, 26 min.
- "Viva femmes - vous avez dit femmes" Author: Raphael Engel, Television Suisse, 1999, 12 min.
- "Brief portrait of Bettina Flitner", author: Astrid Heinrich broadcast, West.Art, WDR, 2004, 3 min.
- "From our center", broadcast West.Art, WDR, 2008, 5 min.
- “With anger and tenderness”, authors: Rita Döbbe and Jan Frerichs, ZDF, 2008, 30 min.
literature
- Vivien Gröning, Kirsten Sass: WOMAN @ WORK Paths after the Abitur - How FRAU makes a career today. 22 interviews with successful women. Renningen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8169-3237-6 . (Interview with Bettina Flitner)
Prices (selection)
- 1988: German Film Critics' Award for the film "Ich"
- 1988: Prize of the Oberhausen Manifesto for the film "Ich"
- 1991: Prize for young photojournalism, from Agfa / Bilderberg
- 1993: Chargesheimer scholarship from the city of Cologne
- 1994/95: For the film Mein Feind :
- Prix du public Festival Films des femmes, Paris
- Prix de la mise en scene Festival Henri Langlois, Paris
- Prize of the Jury Festival Internazionale, Turin
- Jury Prize of the 24th International Student Film Festival, Potsdam
- 1995: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2001: Flashback Special Prize, Political Photography Prize
- 2005: Photo Prize from the Michael Horbach Foundation
Web links
- Literature by and about Bettina Flitner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bettina Flitner's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ.net June 7, 2018 - Alice Schwarzer married her partner ( Memento from June 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Feminist: Alice Schwarzer got married . In: Spiegel Online . June 7, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 9, 2018]).
- ^ Zeit-Magazin, June 26, 1996.
- ↑ Prof. Klaus Honnef in the foreword to the book Mitten ins Herz by Bettina Flitner, Edition Braus, 1998.
- ↑ Catalog of the flashback 2000, p. 5.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 30, 2004.
- ↑ Capital 21/2007.
- ^ Gallery Zellermayer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flitner, Bettina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |