Gabriele Senft
Gabriele Senft (born Gabriele Kühnast in Belzig ( Brandenburg ) on July 24, 1949 ) is a German photographer and photo journalist .
Life
Gabriele Senft grew up with two siblings in Luckau in Niederlausitz.
Her parents had started as new teachers in Belzig in the post-war period and from 1952 accompanied Luckau students through to their Abitur . Her father awakened her interest in photography and the history of the workers and peace movement . She attended the advanced secondary school Karl-Liebknecht in Luckau, where she obtained her Abitur in 1969. She then completed a traineeship at the ADN-Zentralbild picture agency until 1971 . There she met Walter Heilig and had Horst Sturm as a mentor. She then studied journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig until 1975 .
After completing her studies, she worked as a photojournalist at ADN-Zentralbild and reported on cultural events. From 1990 she was employed as a photo reporter for the newspaper Junge Welt . She has been working as a freelancer since 1993 , preferably for the newspapers Junge welt , Neues Deutschland , den Freitag and the ver.di union as well as publishers and projects related to them.
Photographers Sibylle Bergemann , Walter Heilig , Eva Kemlein and Horst Sturm were among her teachers and stimulators . She photographed Elisabeth Bergner , Theo Balden , Fritz Cremer , Käthe Reichel , Angela Davis , Mikis Theodorakis , Ruth Werner , Herman van Veen and Gerhard Gundermann , among others .
At the time of the Kosovo war in April 1999 she was on the way to Belgrade with the peace convoy of the “Mothers Against War”. She initiated a solidarity movement for the civilians killed in Serbia and their families . She was active for more than a decade in the Solidarity Working Group of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity and for several years at EcoMujer, an association of German and Cuban women. She is co-initiator of the group of photographers "photographers in solidarity", which has been accompanying the refugee movement since 2012.
Gabriele Senft returned her honorary membership in the Federal Association of Workers' Photography eV in June 2014. She explicitly distanced herself from the federal association and justified this with the “demands of the so-called› new peace movement ‹around Jürgen Elsässer , Ken Jebsen and Lars Mährholz , as well as the possibility for Alsatians to share his right-wing populist thoughts, which the› NRhZ ‹had for a long time and the efforts to blur left and right and now even to reinterpret the NPD as new ›angels of peace‹. "
She is the mother of two sons and lives in Berlin.
Exhibitions and honors
She exhibited her photographic work several times. These include u. a. the following exhibitions:
GDR
- Participation in exhibitions at Interpress and worldpress , including a silver medal in 1989 for a portrait of the Black American musician Luther Allison
- multiple awards at the VDJ photo competition "100 press photos of the year "
- own photo exhibitions on the occasion of the festival of political song and on the subject of music.
Federal Republic of Germany
- Review of East German sensitivities ten years after the unification of the two German states
- Women, u. a. after the World Women's March 2000 in Brussels and in the following years updated images of women. Portraits
- Confrontation with the Kosovo war . On this subject, she worked on photo exhibitions from several trips to Yugoslavia . Since 2001, the focus has been on the NATO air raid on the Varvarin Bridge , there is also a book documentation on this: Die Brücke von Varvarin , Scheunenverlag Kückenshagen, and exhibitions in over 50 German cities, in Prague and Vienna . In 2019, Gabriele Senft became an honorary citizen of Varvarin.
- Faces of Iraq , the result of a trip to Baghdad and Basrah in January 2003 in several cities
- Encounters in Cuba in 2006 and 2008 after traveling with the women's group ecomujer
- Nicaragua today after a trip with the initiative to save the Berlin gable wall painting Nicaraguan Village - Monimbó 1978 by Manuel García Moia on his trail
- Year 49 by and with Gabriele Senft. Photographs from four decades 1989–2009. With this exhibition she went to the house where she was born in Belzig, where the POGO cultural and youth center is housed.
- Berlin against war. Exhibition ArbeiterPotografen Berlin
- 2013 Face portraits from four decades of work as a photojournalist
- 2014 wherever we live - encounters in Europe
- In 2015, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation from fascism, apple blossoms shone brightly all around
- 2015 dialogue. GDR writers, portraits of writers and encounters
Publications
- The Varvarin Bridge: Documentation of a NATO war crime in Yugoslavia. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2002, ISBN 3-934301-56-8 .
- Show face. Portraits from four decades. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2013, ISBN 978-3-95514-900-0 .
- TARGET. The Varvarin Bridge . Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2014, ISBN 978-3-95514-901-7 .
- Dialog. Writer of the GDR publishing house Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2015, ISBN 978-3-95514-904-8 and ISBN 978-3-95514-905-5
- Commemoration. Guernica Gernikara Verlag Wiljo Heinen, Berlin and Böklund 2017, ISBN 978-3-95514-909-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriele Senft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website by Gabriele Senft
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uta Herrmann: Moments from four decades . Exhibition of a committed photojournalist “Year 49” in the GBM gallery. In: Neues Deutschland (ND) July 17, 2009
- ↑ https://www.redglobe.de/deutschland/medien/1824-gabriele-senft-offener-brief-an-die-arbeiterfotografie
- ↑ Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , November 11, 2009, PHOTOGRAPHY: Images with a clear commitment
- ↑ Remembrance. Guernica Gernikara. Verlag Wiljo Heinen, accessed on January 25, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Senft, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belzig |