Elisabeth Heinemann

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Elisabeth Heinemann in the MDR-Landesfunkhaus Magdeburg on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Extraordinary - artist portraits of Elisabeth Heinemann"

Elisabeth Heinemann (born December 31, 1958 in Zittau ) is a German photographer based in Magdeburg . Her photos of artists and writers such as Joan Baez , Günter Grass , Hanna Schygulla , Alfred Hrdlicka or Bobby McFerrin from the portrait project “Extraordinary” have been published in magazines and anthologies , among others .

Life

Elisabeth Heinemann, daughter of the graphic artist Willy Jähnig and the concert pianist Pia-Monika Nittke, was born in Zittau in 1958 . At first the family lived in Meissen. There her father - a master student of Prof. Emil Paul Börner - worked as a designer and drawing teacher at the porcelain factory , later in the DEFA studio for animated films in Dresden. Her mother was appointed to the Magdeburg Theater in 1963 as a pianist and solo coach . The move to what is now the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt followed. Elisabeth Heinemann spent her school days here and graduated from high school. Then she studied pedagogy (art and Russian) in Erfurt .

Elisabeth Heinemann has been intensively involved with photography since 1993 . She is married to the graduate engineer Wolfgang Heinemann (building site expert and lecturer at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences ). The couple have two sons. Elisabeth Heinemann has been working as a freelance photographer from Magdeburg since 1996.

photography

Character images in black and white - Elisabeth Heinemann portrays : people, cities, landscapes. Your recordings are elementary excerpts and jumps. They focus on character details that tell a lot about the whole behind it and its personality. Nevertheless, these portraits remain characterized by an optical and acoustic cautiousness. Silence and concentration arise not least from the black and white technique with which Elisabeth Heinemann works almost exclusively. “I think color is distracting. That's why I mainly choose black and white. I think that you can try to get a better grasp of the essentials with black and white. ”Mostly Elisabeth Heinemann takes pictures in parallel with two analog cameras in which films with different light sensitivity are inserted. Her role models include two of the great French photographers: Jeanloup Sieff and Henri Cartier-Bresson .

Project: "Extraordinary - Artist Portraits"

Bernhard Heisig - photographed for "extraordinary - artist portraits" (website of Elisabeth Heinemann)

Elisabeth Heinemann calls her central image project “extraordinary - artist portraits”. Since 2005 she has photographed more than 90 celebrities from music, painting, literature and politics. Including Zeruya Shalev , Christoph Hein , Reiner Kunze , Klaus Doldinger , Markus Lüpertz , Klaus Staeck , Reinhold Messner and Egon Bahr . For the photographs she chooses a reduced background or a location that is typical of the work of the sitter. Elisabeth Heinemann asks three questions: What is happiness for you? What do you expect from life? What are you dreaming of? While the respondents are pondering and thinking, the portraits are created. In fact, “extraordinary” because they “force you to look” and allow you to meet. Elisabeth Heinemann “abolishes the distance that celebrity could bring with it in her photos and shows the people portrayed from a very personal side,” writes journalist Martin Ganzkow (see literature). Hellmuth Karasek, who was also portrayed by Elisabeth Heinemann, said on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition on the Thuringian Culture Days Provincial Scream: “If you look at the pictures here, you will see such a seriousness and also a great deal of intimacy between the artist and her object. I feel good in your pictures. "

Exhibitions

  • Since 1994 landscape, portrait and nude exhibitions in city libraries, galleries and churches (e.g. in Magdeburg, Rostock, Schwerin, Halberstadt, Cologne, Braunschweig, Strasbourg)
  • 2002 Seen, not heard - portraits from musical life - Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg (10/2002 - 2/2003)
  • 2008 exceptional - artist portraits by Elisabeth Heinemann - double exhibition in the forum design and state broadcasting house of the MDR in Magdeburg (3/2008 - 5/2008)
  • 2009 extraordinary - artist portraits by Elisabeth Heinemann - Galerie am Domplatz Halle (2/2009 - 3/2009)
  • 2009–2012 Art in spite of (t) dementia - participation in the touring exhibition of the Diakonie in Hessen and Nassau (since 9/2009)
  • 2009 exceptional - artist portraits of Elisabeth Heinemann - Thuringian Culture Days Provincial Scream - Suhl (9/2009 - 10/2009)
  • 2010 Der Dinge Stand - Participation in the exhibition of the BBK Sachsen-Anhalt - Magdeburg (5/2010 - 6/2010)
  • 2010 extraordinary - artist portraits of Elisabeth Heinemann - Glashaus Derneburg (10/2010)
  • 2010 The delicacy of seeing - master drawings by Willy Jähnig and artist portraits by Elisabeth Heinemann - Haus Schulenburg Gera (12/2010 - 3/2011)
  • 2011 I was what you are - portraits of old people - RuhrCongress Bochum (3/2011)
  • 2012 Analog Photography - Galerie Lichtbild Wiesbaden (5/2012 - 6/2012)

Publications

  • Cover pictures for the literary magazine Ort der Augen (1999–2006)
  • 1998 The gardens of Saxony-Anhalt - with Harald Kreibich
  • 1999 photographic design of the volume of poetry Poetic Allegories , Pennsylvania, USA - with Prof. Claude R. Foster, poetry, and Pia-Monika Nittke, rewrite and setting
  • 2002 Calendar of women and cats with poems by Torsten Olle
  • 2003 Lyrik-Foto-Band everything will be different tomorrow - with Dorothea Iser
  • 2003 Photographs for the volume of poetry Trügerische Ruhe by Pia-Monika Nittke
  • 2004 photographs for the anthology Herz über Kopf
  • 2005 Alte Liebe - with Dorothea Iser and Marcus Waselewski
  • 2005 Life paths of Magdeburg women in portraits and texts
  • 2006 Photographs for the volume of poetry Twelve Moons by Pia-Monika Nittke
  • 2009 Photographs for the poetry book Zwischenentöne by Pia-Monika Nittke
  • 2010 Photographs for the book project Die Facetten des Alter (n) s by Prof. Gerd K. Schneider
  • In 2013, together with Pia-Monika Nittke, published the book Willy Jähnig - Meißner Views - Master Drawings from the 1950s with an afterword by Günter Kunert

Press / literature

  • Norbert Pohlmann: extraordinary. Elisabeth Heinemann's artist portraits - Place of Eyes 3/2008
  • Heike Bade: Elisabeth Heinemann on March 12, 2008 in Saxony-Anhalt today , the evening magazine on MDR television
  • Liane Bornholdt: Moments of life in black and white. Elisabeth Heinemann shows artist portraits - Volksstimme from March 14, 2008
  • Martin Ganzkow: Captured moments - Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of October 16, 2010
  • The delicacy of sight. Haus Schulenburg in Gera opens a new show with photographs and drawings - Ostthüringer Zeitung from December 17, 2010
  • Jörg-Heiko Bruns: The goal is the soul of the portrayed - Volksstimme from May 21, 2011

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Heinemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Heinemann in an interview with the journalist Elke Kürschner on MDR1 Radio Sachsen-Anhalt on March 12, 2008 at 11:41 am - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7amgnTwe2OQ
  2. ↑ Dorothea Iser in: Pia-Monika Nittke, Zwölf Monde , Oschersleben 2006, page 6
  3. ↑ Also Lilian Klement in: What luck, what a "beautiful coincidence". 9. Provincial cry. Hellmuth Karasek twice: as a guest and in the portrait of Elisabeth Heinemann - Free Word from September 18, 2009
  4. ^ Elisabeth Heinemann on March 12, 2008 in Saxony-Anhalt today
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau