Friedrich Magnussen

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Friedrich Magnussen (1972)

Friedrich "Fiete" Magnussen (born January 22, 1914 in Kiel ; † October 30, 1987 ) was a Kiel press photographer .

Life

Magnussen grew up in Kiel on Knooper Weg. At the age of 13 he started taking photos with a 9 × 13 plate camera . He had a photo laboratory in his parents' apartment . The first recordings of him appeared in the Kieler Neuesten Nachrichten from 1934 onwards . After the Second World War he sold his photos to both the Kiel daily newspapers, the Volkszeitung and the Kieler Nachrichten . From 1952 he became a photographer for the Kieler Nachrichten , for which he worked until his retirement in 1977.

plant

The Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte acquired around 500,000 black and white negatives from the photographer's estate and made them available to the Kiel city archive, which has been publishing the images on the Internet under a free license since 2015. Initially only 15,000 pictures were available in the photo archive of the city of Kiel, now 30,900 photos of Magnussen are available online. (As of March 18, 2020)

literature

  • Alfred Kamphausen (text); Friedrich Magnussen (picture): Kiel. Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt 1972, ISBN 978-3-8035-0451-7 .
  • Jürgen Jensen: Kiel contemporary history in the press photo. The 40s / 50s in pictures by Friedrich Magnussen. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, ISBN 978-3-529-02673-7 .
  • Jürgen Jensen: Kiel in the economic miracle. On press photos by Friedrich Magnussen. Departure - shine - crisis. Society for Kiel City History, special publication Volume 20, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1987, ISBN 978-3-529-02689-8 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Magnussen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Jensen: Kiel contemporary history in the press photo . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 2nd edition 1985, ISBN 3-529-02673-5 , p. 7.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Küppers: City Archives asks Kieler for information: Photos with a secret. In: Kiel News . July 31, 2014, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Udo Carstens: City history for free. In: shz.de . November 20, 2015, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Kiel history preserved for eternity. In: KN-online . December 9, 2016, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  5. ^ Photo archive online - photos from the holdings of the Kiel city archive
personal data
SURNAME Magnussen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magnussen, Fiete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1987