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Erich Schutt (* 1931 in Vetschau ) is a German photographer and photo journalist .

Life

Schutt grew up as the child of a German railroad worker and a Sorbian mother in Vetschau, where he took photos with an Agfa box while he was still at school . The then 14-year-old bought this at the beginning of 1945, but it was removed from him by the Russian commandant's office a short time later, as private ownership of a camera was forbidden in the Soviet occupation zone at the time.

During his apprenticeship as a specialist druggist from 1947 in the photo department of the Spreewald drugstore Petzold , among other things, he learned how to sell films and how to deal with the darkroom , then from 1952 he worked at Foto-Brausewetter in the Berliner Straße in Cottbus , a large laboratory with 10 photo lab technicians there rapid development, copying and enlargement.

Haymaking in the Spreewald, photographed by Erich Schutt.

Schutt began his career as a photo journalist in 1952, when he initially became a photo correspondent for the “Brandenburger Neuesten Nachrichten”. In 1953, after the Lausitzer Rundschau moved to Cottbus, Schutt was hired as the newspaper's first press photographer, and later he graduated from college in journalism. Schutt retired in 1994, but he still takes photos today.

Schutt's photographic focus included the Lusatian mining industry and the regional energy industry , the Spreewald and, due to its own origins, also the Sorbian / Wendish cultural life. In his work, he also stood for a move away from staged press photos. His extensive photo archive is in his private possession, but many pictures are also recorded in the Federal Archives.

In addition to book publications, Schutt continues to be represented in exhibitions, for example more than 80 of his photographs were on view in the Wendisches Museum in Cottbus in 2012 . Between 2016 and 2018, his life's work was digitized in cooperation with a picture agency for the catalog of the dpa-Picture-Alliance .

literature

  • Thomas Kläber, Norbert Krauzig and Erich Schutt: Cottbus - beautiful sides of a city. ALfa-Verlag, Cottbus 2002, ISBN 3-935513-05-4
  • Erich Schutt: Cottbus 1950-1995. Steffen-Verlag, Cottbus 2011, ISBN 978-3-940101-94-5
  • Erich Schutt: Photographs of Niederlausitz 1948–1991. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7420-2214-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Erich Schutt guides you through the exhibition "Photographs of Niederlausitz 1948-1991". City of Cottbus , May 31, 2012, accessed on March 27, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Fritsche: Workers photographed - illustrated book on the life's work of press photographer Erich Schutt. Neues Deutschland , April 11, 2012, accessed on March 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Miriam Schönbach: Declaration of love from an unusual perspective. (No longer available online.) Sorbenland.info, March 28, 2012, archived from the original on April 3, 2013 ; accessed on March 27, 2013 . 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 / sorbenland.info
  4. ↑ a b Erich Schutt - picture chronicler of Niederlausitz. Niederlausitz aktuell, October 1, 2009, accessed on October 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Zentralbild digitizes the life work of the GDR photographer Erich Schutt. April 5, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rubble, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photo journalist in Lusatia
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vetschau