Jim rocket

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Jim Rakete (born January 1, 1951 in Berlin ; actually Günther Rakete ) is a German photographer and photojournalist . Rakete became known for his mostly black and white portrait photographs of celebrities.

Life

Rocket is the descendant of emigrated Huguenots , whose original name was Raquette . He is the brother of the Berlin lawyer Ingeborg Rakete-Dombek.

He became interested in photography and music from an early age. At the age of four he took his first snapshots with a camera. Jim Rakete has "always been fascinated by the fact that you have a box with which you can stop time". He later photographed the Berlin music scene. As a teenager he sat in at Ludwig Binder's photo studio in West Berlin. At the age of 17, he was already taking professional photos for daily newspapers and agencies, including Jimi Hendrix , Ray Charles , David Bowie and Mick Jagger .

From 1977 to 1987, Rakete ran a photo agency called the "Factory" in a factory floor in Kreuzberg . During this time he not only photographed the covers of many musicians for Neue Deutsche Welle , but also worked as a manager . The best known of the artists and bands supported by Rakete include Nina Hagen , Nena , Spliff , Interzone , Sternhagel , Morgenrot and Die Ärzte . On the night of June 17, 1980 (then the date of the national holiday, Day of German Unity ), Jim Rakete, like Heiner Pudelko and other musicians from the blues rock band Interzone, photographed a 50-meter-long section of the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz with the Band logo painted and then arrested by the British military police. The action became a big promotional effect for the band and their manager.

Rakete has devoted himself entirely to photography since 1987, since then he has portrayed numerous greats from the German and international music and film industry, including Til Schweiger , Meret Becker , Moritz Bleibtreu , Otto Sander , Jürgen Vogel , the Berliner Philharmoniker and Annett Louisan . The young talents from film and music are also of particular interest. After a long stay in Hamburg, he moved back to Berlin in 2001 and has his studio in Kreuzberg.

In 2010, as a photographer, Rakete was in charge of a fundraising campaign for the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main . The campaign, in which well-known personalities posed for the photographer, was intended to close a funding gap in the renovation of the museum. An exhibition was created for this purpose, which was shown throughout Germany under the title State of Things .

In a 2000 article, Jim Rakete was critical of digital photography . For him, digital photography has nothing to do with reality, but more with construction, when photos are post-processed on the computer. Many of his portraits were created with a large format camera because working with it (technically very cumbersome) requires intense concentration, but at the same time contains a spontaneous moment due to the lack of control at the moment of shutter release.

A series of 77 portraits of the ensemble members of the Vienna Burgtheater , which Rakete photographed with the digital black-and-white rangefinder camera Leica M Monochrom , was on view as an exhibition in Vienna, Salzburg and Berlin in 2015/16.

Rakete also maintains direct contacts with politics. For example, he is friends with Otto Schily and was one of the prominent supporters of Gerhard Schröder in the 2005 federal election campaign.

In 2012 he received a practical scholarship at Villa Massimo in Rome.

On October 2, 2018, Rakete was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his life's work .

Exhibitions

  • 1997: Jim Rakete - Photographs , Museum St. Ingbert
  • 2002: Stay like that - photographs by Jim Rakete and Mathias Bothor , Stiftung Demokratie Saarland , November 6th to December 6th, 2002
  • 2008: Jim Rakete - Photographs , Gallery "Camera Work", Berlin, January 19 to March 1, 2008
  • 2008: Jim Rakete - 1/8 sec. - eyes / gaze / portraits , Deutsches Filmmuseum , Frankfurt / Main, September 24, 2008 to January 4, 2009, plus panel discussions between the photographer and some of his models such as Ulrich Matthes or Till Brönner
  • 2009: Jim Rakete - 1/8 sec. - Familiar Strangers in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen , January 17, 2009 to May 10, 2009
  • 2010: Jim Rakete - Familiar Strangers , Hilaneh von Kories Gallery, Hamburg, March 12, 2010 to May 6, 2010
  • 2011: Jim Rakete - State of the Art , Kunsthalle Koidl , Berlin, February 10 to March 11, 2011
  • 2011/2012: Jim Rakete - State of the art: 100 portraits for the German Filmmuseum , German Filmmuseum , Frankfurt am Main, August 14, 2011 to February 8, 2012
  • 2012: We & I - Photographs by Jim Rakete , Museum Bensheim, August 19 to September 30, 2012
  • 2012: Jim Rakete - Images of People , Art and Culture Center Monschau , 7 July to 23 September 2012
  • 2013: Jim Rakete - Vertigo , Münzing Claassen Galerie, Berlin, February 13th to April 13th, 2013
  • 2013: Jim Rakete - State of the Art - 100 portraits for the German Film Museum , Kolvenburg , Billerbeck, March 24 to June 9, 2013
  • 2013: Jim Rakete: State of Affairs , Ulm City Hall , July 5 to September 8, 2013
  • 2014: Jim Rakete - State of the Art, BTV FO.KU.S, Photo Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, February 27 to May 10, 2014
  • 2014: Jim Rocket. Icons - A charity project by Jim Rakete and Kilian Kerner , Schneider Kreuznach, Bad Kreuznach, March 30th to May 4th, 2014
  • 2015: Jim Rocket. Face & Future , Stiftung Mercator , Essen, January 29 to July 31, 2015
  • 2015: Jim Rocket. The castle. Inner life , Leica Gallery Vienna, February 25 to May 16, 2015
  • 2016: Jim Rocket. The castle. Inner Life , Einstein Gallery, Berlin, January 29 to March 6, 2015
  • 2017: We are many , traveling exhibition. Beginning in the Paul-Löbe-Haus , Berlin, January 18 to February 10, 2017

Others

In January 2003, a Zimmer-free broadcast with Jim Rakete was recorded. However, the program was never broadcast. The WDR gave no reason for this. In an interview in 2011 with Jörg Thadeusz in the show Thadeusz of RBB confirmed rocket of the grounds but did not explain. He just said that, similar to the room-free show with Cherno Jobatey , they made too much fun of a problem from their past.

literature

Photographic work
  • Rene Lezard (Ed.): Jim Rocket. The Complete Key West Session . Lezard , Schwarzach 1986 (full-page fashion photographs)
  • Jim Rakete: Photographs 1970–1997 . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88814-886-3
  • Jim Rakete, Rolf Hosfeld, Rainer Wörtmann: Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin. Europe's largest revue theater . Metz, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-9805563-3-6
  • Jim Rocket: Workbook . Self-published by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Heidelberg 2000 (People in the Graphic Arts Industry)
  • Moon Suk: moon and stars. 22 poetic portraits . Wunderlich, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8052-0810-9 (photographs by Jim Rakete)
  • Ulf Meyer zu Küingdorf (author), Jim Rakete (photographer), Mark Gisbourne (author): Kunststation Berlin . Knesebeck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-89660-364-7
  • Jim rocket: 1/8 sec./ Familiar strangers . (Hardcover), Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-38296-0296-9
  • Jim Rakete: State of the art: 100 portraits for the German Film Museum . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0533-5
  • Jim Rakete: Burgtheater Inner Life . Barbara Münzing, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048694-4
interview
  • Gero von Boehm : Jim rocket. January 16, 2008 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 577-584

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the microphone - the photographer Jim Rakete , Deutschlandradio on June 21, 2014, accessed on August 4, 2014
  2. ↑ Eimermacher, Stefanie: Biography Ludwig Binder , in: LeMO-Biografien, Lebendiges Museum Online, Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany , last visited on June 22, 2017
  3. ↑ a b special exhibition - Jim Rakete - State of Things , German Film Institute , accessed on August 4, 2014
  4. ↑ Photographer Jim Rakete on Kodak Insolvency - Too Slow for Digital Chatter , Süddeutsche Zeitung on January 25, 2012, accessed on August 4, 2014
  5. ↑ The beautiful interior of the Burgtheater , Der Standard on February 19, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Villa Massimo | Jim rocket. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Entry on the website of the Office of the Federal President: Award ceremony for the Day of German Unity on October 2, 2018 , viewed on September 28, 2018
  8. ↑ Jim Rakete in the Hilaneh von Kories Gallery, Hamburg 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Rocket, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rocket, Günther (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany