Günter Zint

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Günter Zint in July 2017

Günter Zint (born June 27, 1941 in Fulda ) is a German photographer .

Life

In 1959 he began a traineeship at the German Press Agency (DPA) in Frankfurt am Main, where he was trained as a photo journalist and editor. He then worked as a reporter for Quick and twen before moving to Sweden and England in 1962 . In 1964 he returned to Germany and settled in Hamburg. From 1967 to 1971 he worked permanently for Der Spiegel magazine and then as a freelance press photographer. He became known through his photos in the Hamburg Star Club . At the end of the 1960s he founded the St. Pauli News , originally a left tabloid , for which Henryk M. Broder and Stefan Aust also wrote. After they were sold in 1971, this increasingly developed into a sex postil. Among other orders for Star , Mirror, concrete , and trade union and foreign newspapers to Zint concentrated more and more on which he has important priorities environmental, social, neighborhood, etc. Gunter Zint describes himself as a "utility photographer".

He later took part in the anti-nuclear movement and worked with the journalist Günter Wallraff . Since 1964 he has been contributing to Wallraff's undercover reports with his photos. In the early 1980s, together with the photographers Hinrich Schultze, Marily Stroux, Gaby Schmidt, Jutta Stadach and Inge Kramer, he founded the Pan-Photo Agency for the Dissemination of Alternative Press Photos GmbH , which also includes the holdings of Zint's Pan-Photo, which has existed since 1966 -Archive managed. In 1999 Zint left his long-term home in Hamburg-Altona and moved to the Worpswede area . From 1982 he tried to bring his extensive collection of exhibits, documents and photos from the Hamburg district of St. Pauli to a museum, but at first promising approaches repeatedly failed or proved difficult to finance. Since 2005 the collection has been supported by a private association as the Sankt Pauli Museum , which presents some of this material to the public. In 2011, he moved the Panfotoarchiv, which contains over 6 million photos by 15 photographers, to Behrste in the Stade district.

Zint is a member of the German Union of Journalists in Verdi , a member of the German Society for Photography of the Bild-Kunst collecting society and an honorary member of the House of Freedom of the Press.

Exhibitions

From May 8, 2007 to April 2008, the Bonn House of History showed pictures of the photographer in its underground gallery. From August to October 2007, the Vonderau Museum in Zint's hometown Fulda showed the exhibition The Photographer Günter Zint . From November 2007 to January 2008, the Oldenburg State Museum showed a cross-section of his life's work in 160 photographs.

The Wild Times exhibition was designed by the House of History as a loan exhibition. It can be borrowed from museums and cultural institutions. For example, it was on view from March to July 2011 in the German Tank Museum in Munster and from June to October 2012 on the island of Helgoland . In May 2013 the exhibition Wild Times was shown in the Italian city of Udine . From October 2016 to March 2017 the exhibition was in the Theodor-Heuss-Haus in Stuttgart and from 7 September 2017 to the end of February 2018 in the Stadtmuseum Norderstedt, then from 19 May to 17 June 2018 in the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg. From May 17 to June 27, 2019 the exhibition "Wilde Zeiten" was shown in cooperation with the Children's Academy in Fulda.

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Works (selection)

  • Günter Zint: nuclear power. Photo documents from the “Citizens' Dialogue” on nuclear energy . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1979, ISBN 3-88132-115-2 .
  • Günter Zint, Caroline Fetscher : Republic of the Free Wendland. A documentation . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
  • Günter Zint: Against the nuclear state. 300 photo documents . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  • Günter Zint, Günter Handlögten, Inge Kramer: The white dove flew away forever. A St. Pauli picture book . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15292-4 .
  • Günter Zint, Inge Kramer: People on the river ... for how much longer? Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-89136-043-6 .
  • Günter Zint, Klaus Martens, Rainer Wick, Jutta Stadach: Great freedom 39. From beat to bang . Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00719-0 .
  • Günter Zint: Bury my heart at the entrance to the motorway. Stories, graffiti, hitchhikers blues . Heyne, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-35053-7 .
  • Günter Zint, Gaby Schmidt: Environmental protection adventure. Actions by Greenpeace and Robin Wood . Heyne, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-453-35044-8 .
  • Günter Wallraff, photos Günter Zint: At the bottom . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-462-01716-0 .
  • Günter Zint, Jörg Boström, Hinrich Schultze, Gaby Schmidt, Jutta Stadach: Light blows ... 25 years of photos . Verlag am Galgenberg, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-925387-19-6 .
  • Günter Zint, Reimar Paul: The Wismut legacy - history and consequences of uranium mining in Thuringia and Saxony . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 3-923478-55-0 .
  • Günter Zint: ZINTSTOFF. 50 years of German history . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-317-5 .
  • Günter Zint: Domenica. The photo book: »I wasn't beautiful. I was worse. « Dölling and Galitz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86218-016-5 .
  • Günter Zint: Wild times: Hamburg photographs by Günter Zint 1965 - 1989. With texts by Tania Kibermanis . Dölling u. Galitz / Junius Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86218-116-2 .
  • Günter Zint: Hamburg my pearl: photographs from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s . The reconstruction of Hamburg. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0230-1 .
  • Günter Zint: ZINTSTOFF 2. 65 years of German history . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0917-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Sankt Pauli Museum
  2. ^ Lending exhibition "Wild Times. Photographs by Günter Zint". Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany , accessed on March 26, 2020 ( different text on the exhibition and person ).
personal data
SURNAME Zint, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda