Erika Rabau

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Erika Rabau (* December 23, year not known (before 1945) in Danzig ; † April 10, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German photographer and actress . Since 1972 she has been the official photographer of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

Professional development

Erika Rabau grew up in Berlin and at the age of 17 went to South America for a few years. In Buenos Aires she worked as a camerawoman. After her return to Europe at the beginning of the 1960s, she began to take photographs , professionally trained in light typesetting , cadrage and picture staging . In 1972, the then Berlinale director, Alfred Bauer , hired her as the official photo documentator for the film festival.

In addition to her work as a photographer, she repeatedly pursued her original career aspiration as a small actor in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with more than 30 supporting roles, Ulrike Ottinger or Wolf Gremm . In 1987 she played a small role in Wim Wenders ' Der Himmel über Berlin . She has been a permanent cast in Lothar Lambert's films since 1979.

Lambert briefly portrayed Rabau in his 2009 documentary All My Standing Up Girls - Of Women Who Dare to Do Something . 2013-2015 turned Lambert's portrait Erika, my superstar or movies until you drop , which in Berlin on August 2, 2015 Premiere had.

In 2007 the documentary Erika Rabau - The Puck of Berlin was directed by Samson Vincent .

Awards

During her many years of work at the Berlinale, her charisma and appearance (in black or turquoise leather fuzz, overlaid with jewelry and cameras, and not to be missed from afar due to her penetrating falsetto voice , and if so, you are guaranteed to stumble upon hers Bag that she pulled behind her like a trolley case without wheels), quickly becoming a brand of the film festival itself . In 2004 she was awarded a Berlinale camera for her services to the International Film Festival .

Exhibitions

  • 2008: Erika Rabau - A Berliner with her camera. Pictures from the Berlin Film Festival 1963–1985 in the Museum for Communication , Berlin

Illustrated books

  • Stars, the faces of the Berlinale , ed. v. Volker Austria. Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-936962-60-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemorative page of Erika Rabau. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ “The Puck of Berlin”: Berlinale photographer Erika Rabau is dead. In: tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel, April 12, 2016, accessed on April 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Obituary: Erika Rabau in the realm of the red carpet , Tagesspiegel of April 14, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2016, online
  4. ↑ All my stand-up girls - From women who dare to do something on Filmportal.de , accessed on July 24, 2015.
    Lothar Lambert: Conversation on the occasion of the premiere , www.lotharlambert.com, online, accessed on July 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ Erika, my superstar or films until you drop on Filmportal.de , accessed on July 24, 2015.
  6. ^ Obituary: Erika Rabau in the realm of the red carpet , Tagesspiegel of April 14, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2016, online
personal data
SURNAME Rabau, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2016
Place of death Berlin