Diethart Curbs

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Diethart Kerbs (born August 19, 1937 in Berlin ; † January 27, 2013 there ) was a German art educator and cultural and photo historian.

Life

Kerbs studied art and craft education in West Berlin, then education , political science , sociology and ethnology at the universities of Erlangen , Tübingen and Göttingen . Then in 1963 he became "administrator of a scientific assistant position" with Hartmut von Hentig at the pedagogical seminar of the University of Göttingen. Kerbs was one of the founders of the Burg Waldeck Festival in 1964 and worked for song magazine . 1974 did his doctorate at the University of Bremen . From 1969 he was a lecturer and from 1974 professor at the University of Education in Berlin-Lankwitz . From 1980 to 2006 he taught at the University of the Arts (since 2001: University of the Arts) in Berlin. He retired in 2003 and lived in Charlottenburg and Peenehagen / Mecklenburg until his death .

Kerbs was a co-initiator of the Werkbundarchiv , co-founder of the New Society for Fine Arts and co-founder of the Berlin history workshop . “Kerbs made lasting contributions to the still young discipline of photo history. Appointed to the University of the Arts, he researched and edited the iconography of the 20th century. With his illustrated books on worker photography or the revolutionary struggles in Berlin's newspaper district , Kerbs founded the field of research in visual history . "

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the Klartextverlag published a volume with biographical texts by Kerbs. This collection contains 16 biographies of hitherto little known persons of the German left, all of them "relatives" of Diethart Kerbs: Alexander Schwab , Karl Schröder , John Graudenz , Alexandra Ramm-Pfemfert , Fritz Drach , Max Hoelz , Simon Guttmann , Babette Gross , Günter Reimann , Walter Reuter , Theo Pinkus , Hans Namuth & Georg Reisner , Eva Siao , Kurt Kretschmann , Julius HW Kraft , Léon Schirmann .

The final resting place of Diethart Kerbs is on the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin (grave location CU4-4-A). His scientific legacy was included in the MARZONA collection.

Kerbs was the chairman of the "Kultur-Landschaft eV", which awards the "Ludwig Wegener Prize" every two years. " It is awarded to people or groups of people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania who have made a special contribution to the preservation of the cultural landscape, in particular in the interaction of monument preservation and nature conservation / landscape protection. "

Works (selection)

  • The end of courtesy. For a revision of the education of decency . Juventa, Munich 1970 (co-author)
  • The hedonistic left . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1971 (editor)
  • Fidus . 1868–1948, on the aesthetic practice of bourgeois refugee movements . Rogner and Bernhard: Munich 1972, ISBN 3-920802-86-1 (with Janos Frecot and Jonas Geist )
  • Historical art education . DuMont: Cologne 1976
  • Contributions to the theory of aesthetic education . Bremen 1979 (Additional dissertation, University of Bremen 1979)
  • Edition Photo Library, 30 volumes . Dirk Nishen , Berlin 1983/91. (Editor)
  • The synchronization of the images. On the history of press photography 1930-1936 . Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1983. (with Walter Uka and Brigitte Walz-Richter)
  • Hans Namuth, Georg Reisner: Spanish Diary 1936 . Verlag Dirk Nishen: Berlin 1986 (editor)
  • May, Karl Heinz, Kerbs, Diethart, May, Karl Detlef. Early years: Leipzig 1945 to 1950 . Berlin: Nishen Verlag in Kreuzberg, 1986.
  • Summer days, days of peace: Berlin 1945 - Robert Capa . Nishen-Verlag, Berlin 1986 (editor), ISBN 3-88940-216-X .
  • The picture archive I. Save the pictures! Berlin 1988 (editor)
  • Willi Munzenberg . (= Contemporaries I) Nishen-Verlag: Berlin 1988 (with Walter Uka )
  • Robert Jungk (= Contemporaries II), Berlin 1988 (with Mathias Greffrath)
  • Revolution and photography, Berlin 1918/19 . Verlag Dirk Nishen: Berlin 1989 (Ed with Andreas Hallen)
  • Walter Reuter : 60 years of photography and film . Argon, Berlin; Madrid; Mexico 1990 (Editor)
  • Berlin 1932. The last year of the first German republic. Politics, symbols, media . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1992 (with Henrick Stahr)
  • Photography and memory. Three volumes: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt . bebra, Berlin 1997. (with Sophie Schleußner)
  • Handbook of the German Reform Movements 1880 to 1933 . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1998 (edited with Jürgen Reulecke)
  • On the streets of Berlin. The photographer Willy Römer 1887–1979 . Bönen / Westfalen 2004, ISBN 3-937390-31-6
    Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the German Historical Museum Berlin (October 27, 2004 - February 27, 2005) (publisher)
  • Photography and photo journalism in the Weimar Republic . Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2004 (with Walter Uka)
  • Lifelines. German biographies from the 20th century . Klartext, Essen 2007
  • Alexander Schwab (1887–1943) architectural theorist, political educator, councilor communist, writer and resistance fighter . In IWK
  • Survivor Messages: Preliminary Notes on the History of Worker Photography. In: Baumgartner / Wedemeyer-Kolwe (Hg :): Awakening, side paths, astray. Festschrift for Ulrich Linse . Würzburg 2004, pp. 45-57
  • There is a civil right to history. In: Scheidewege, annual journal for skeptical thinking. 39th year 2009/2010, pp. 74-82.

Honors

For his 70th birthday in 2007, Klartext-Verlag Essen published three volumes in the same design about, by and for Diethart Kerbs:

  • Jürgen Reulecke and Norbert Schwarte (eds.): Impulses. Diethart Kerbs as an art educator, photo historian and monument protector. A compilation ... Essen: Klartext 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-798-7 .
  • Diethart Kerbs: Lifelines. German biographies from the 20th century. With an afterword by Arno Klönne. Essen: Klartext 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-799-4 .
  • Jürgen Reulecke and Norbert Schwarte (eds.): Snapshots. Companions remember. Essen: Klartext 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-800-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family advertisement in Tagesspiegel from February 10, 2013, p. 15
  2. sueddeutsche.de , accessed on March 17, 2017
  3. Bodo Mrozek : He never ran out of projects. On the death of the photo historian Diethart Kerbs . In: Der Tagesspiegel from February 7, 2013
  4. Foundation page ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur-landschaft.org
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