Franz Schensky
Franz Schensky (born August 23, 1871 in Heligoland, † January 7, 1957 in Schleswig ) was a German photographer .
The Helgoländer Franz Schensky one of the pioneers of black and white photography and has a firm place in the German photo-story.
In 2003, 1,400 of his glass negatives, believed to be lost, were found in a cellar on Helgoland and processed and digitized by the Museum Helgoland and the museum's friends' association in a special laboratory. The focus of these photographs from the period between 1900 and 1950 are the areas of old Heligoland , aquarium , sea and waves , sailing , destruction and reconstruction , people and time in Schleswig .
On the 50th anniversary of his death, there were exhibitions in the Helgoland local history museum, in the Kiel State House and in the Schleswig-Holstein State Representation in Berlin .
In 2008 the documentary “The Man in the Surf” by Wilhelm Rösing was shot with the support of the Hermann Reemtsma Foundation , the Film Funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the Cultural Film Funding Schleswig-Holstein about the life of Schensky.
Schensky (portrayed by Michael Mendl ) is one of the main characters in the docudrama Heimat Helgoland - The Photographer and His Island , broadcast by NDR in 2017 . His curriculum vitae is reduced to a love of home. His political background is misrepresented. After 1918 Schensky belonged to the Heligoland, who tried to bring the island back under English rule.
literature
- Wilhelm Rösing : Franz Schensky. The photographer and the sea. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel / Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-05347-4 .
Web links
- Franz Schensky - biography and image examples on the Helgoland Museum website
- Katja Iken: Helgoland photographer Franz Schensky - The island talent. In: Spiegel Online , October 2, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Museum Helgoland, description of permanent exhibition, photography 02.
- ^ Elisabeth Jessen: The Helgoland photo treasure. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . April 25, 2007.
- ↑ Heimat Helgoland on the NDR website, accessed on October 2, 2017.
- ^ Eckhard Wallmann: A colony becomes German - Heligoland between the world wars. Bredstedt 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schensky, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heligoland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1957 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |