Günter Spitzing

Günter Spitzing (born May 19, 1931 in Bamberg ) is a German writer . He has published books focusing on photography and film in practice and psychology, interreligious issues, Indonesian, Indian and Greek culture.

Career

After a humanistic high school he sat as a freelancer by. He then studied Indonesian language and culture , as well as religious studies and ethnology at the University of Hamburg . He completed his studies in 1989 with a master's thesis . Günter Spitzing worked as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and at the VHS Hamburg Ost. He went on study trips to Indonesia, India and Greece .

Between 1956 and 1965 Günter Spitzing was involved in public relations in an industrial company . He gave photo lectures, gave courses in clubs and in front of the specialist trade. From 1965 he went freelance as a writer. In the 1960s he was the editor of a diving magazine. Spitzing published 70 books. Translations into Dutch , English , Italian , French , Spanish , Portuguese , Swedish , Polish , Czech and Greek are available. The first paperback series for photo and film information foto that he initiated proved to be a success . He also wrote the first children's photo book, the first practical comic (enlargement practice), and the first German-language book on photo psychology. Since 1981 books on South, South East Asian and Greek cultures and religions have been added.

In 1992 he participated in the founding and until 2010 in the management of an association that set up a children's village with schools in southern India and took care of the education of indigenous people. In 2011 he participated in the founding of Zukunft Irular eV The organization actively supports the survival of Irular, an Adivasi group in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu .

Spitzing lives in Hamburg .

Exhibitions

Photo exhibitions

• Black and white pictures from Greece. 1960 Hamburg State Image Office.
• One photo = 1001 images. Photography exhibition 1976 Photokina Cologne, later Brussels.
• Portraits from Bali. Hamburg, Cologne, Augsburg
• Portraits from India. Exhibitions in Hamburg
• The Irular, color photos. Hamburg, Rostock
• Shadow play figures from all over the world (with photos of game scenes). Hamburg, Norderstedt, Stuttgart, Staufen.

Works (selection)

Photo and film books

• We film in color. Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster 1965
• Close-up Abc: Textbook of shooting practice and image design, for photographic tricks in close-up and magnifying glass and for reproduction in color and black and white. Gemsberg, Winterthur 1966
• Pette with the camera. Photo children's book, illustration by Hannelore Radetzky, Inpho Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967
• Border areas of photography - infrared, UV, polarization. Heering Verlag, Munich 1968
• Photo advice in a nutshell! One hundred and ninety-one (191) instructive photo tips from practice. Gemsberg, Winterthur 1968
• Portrait photos - know how (information photo). Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster 1968
• Günter Spitzings Blitzbuch (information photo). Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster 1968
• With camera and air mattress. Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster 1968
• Enlarge - black and white + color. Dr. Diener KG, Neumünster 1969
• The crazy photo book (information photo). Walther F. Benser KG, Neumünster 1970
• Metal etching according to photos. Frech Verlag, Stuttgart 1973
• School photography didactics + methodology. R. Oldenburg, Munich 1975
• Color enlargement after slides. Laterna Magica, Munich 1976
• A photo is equal to 1001 pictures. Illustrated book, Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf 1976
• Photograms with all baffles. Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf 1977
• Film with imagination. Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf 1977
• Das Fotolabor - a handbook for amateur and professional photographers. Mosaik Verlag, Munich 1978
• Self-enlarging made easy - Practical comic. Illustrations by Ilona Pitschel, Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar 1980
• The Pentax ME Super Book . Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf 1983
• Photo psychology - the subjective side of the lens. Beltz, Weinheim 1985
• Modern infrared and UV photography. Augustus Verlag, Augsburg 1992
• The new textbook of photography. Augustus Verlag, Augsburg 1992
• Enlarge black and white - with computer processing. Augustus Verlag, Augsburg 1998

Non-fiction

• The Indonesian shadow play - Bali, Java, Lombok. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1981
• Lexicon of Byzantine Christian symbols. Eugen Diederichs, Munich 1989
• Athos - the sacred mountain of Eastern Christianity. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1990
• The Dewi Saraswati Children's Village in South India. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2002
• The shadow world of Indonesia - Wayang on Java, Bali and Lombok. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2002
• The Irular - unknown indigenous people of South India. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2003, e-book 2012
• Jesus whom they call Christ - Jesulogy of liberation. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2011, E-Book 2012

Travel and hiking books

• Bali, art guide. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1983
• Rhodes hike properly. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1987
• Greece - the mainland. Günter Spitzing, Gerhard Dierza (photos), Bruckmann, Munich 1989
• Northern Greece. Hike properly. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1990
• Bali, picture and text volume. Bruckmann, Munich 1991
• Bali - A journey through pictures. Günter Spitzing, Otto Stadler (photos), Ellert & Richter Verlag, 1994
• Indonesia. Günter Spitzing, Bernd Ritschel (photos), Bruckmann, Munich 1996
• Hikes in Schleswig-Holstein. Nature. Art. Culture. Bruckmann, Munich 1998
• Practical Balinese PhraseBook. Periplus Editions, Singapore 2000
• Basa Bali (Balinese) word for word - phrasebook. Peter Rump Verlag, Bielefeld 2004

Other publications

• The interfaith prayer book. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2004
• The devil with the cattle foot - crime satire. Asu Poleng, Hamburg 2008, e-book 2012

Web links

• https://sites.google.com/site/gspitzing/