Gabriele du Vinage

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Gabriele du Vinage (born February 9, 1920 in Berlin ; † March 2, 2009 in Hamburg ) was a German photographer and photojournalist .

Training and first activities

Gabriele du Vinage was the third of four daughters of the merchant and consul François du Vinage and his wife, the doctor Dr. Amelie du Vinage - by Skopnik. When she was seven years old, her father passed away. As a result of this, and in the course of the global economic crisis in 1929, the rest of the family were in a financially difficult situation, which is why all of the daughters began vocational training at an early age. Gabriele was trained at the Photography School of the Lette Association and in 1940 passed her journeyman's examination as an art photographer before the Berlin Photographers' Guild. First she worked from 1940 to 1944 in a free contract at the State Museum for German Folklore Berlin. A portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Adolf Reichwein , who was executed as a member of the resistance in 1944, is one of the few free works from this early period that survived the destruction of her apartment during the war. At the request of her sister Beatrice du Vinage, who was nine years older and worked as a photo reporter at the time, she initially (and until well into the 1950s) refrained from mentioning her surname and marked her photos with the copyright notice "foto: gabriele". In April 1944 she passed her final exams as editor and photo editor before the Reich Association of the German Press (RDP) and the Reich Association of Photo Reporters. She then worked as a photo reporter for Terra Filmkunst and took color photos of ceiling frescoes in churches and castles in an official project until the end of the war.

After the Second World War: film and theater photos

In 1947 she received the work permit for the profession of photographer and picture reporter in Hamburg. She was then u. a. employed as a freelancer for the Presse Bild Dienst (PBD) and as a photo reporter for the photographer Konrad Weidenbaum. In 1952 she was accepted as a press photographer in the DJV Hamburg. In the 1940s she began to concentrate on her future main fields of work: stills from film and television productions, theater photography and portraits of actors. In the case of film, a long-term collaboration as a still photographer for Real-Film emerged . Her work for the cinema in June 1949, for example, included second-hand fate (director: Wolfgang Staudte ). There are considerably more films than the titles previously listed for her in the film databases (IMDbPro and filmportal.de). The best-known films for which she made the stills include Ludwig II , Des Teufels General , Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , Die Zürcher Verlobung , Nasser Asphalt , Der Schinderhannes , The rest is silence , The frog with the mask , The bridge ( Director: Bernhard Wicki ), Schwarzer Kies , Moritz, dear Moritz or Der Zauberberg (Director: Hans W. Geißendörfer ). She was by no means only active in film productions made in Hamburg, as a contemporary newspaper report about her shows. Gabriele du Vinage was considered "one of the most famous still photographers" of this time in Germany. At the same time, an extensive, long-term documentation of the new productions at various Hamburg theaters was created. In 1952 she married her student and assistant Matthias Wisch , and the future joint artist name was "du Vinage". A common copyright stamp "foto: du Vinage", which only lists the first names "Gabriele and Matthias du Vinage" in the subline next to the address, makes it difficult for outsiders in individual cases to distinguish between the authorship, especially since it (especially in the Hamburg theater photography) even attended and photographed events by both of them.

Portrait photography

A small selection of names shows that those portrayed by her were among the most famous German actors of the time: Hans Albers , Paul Bildt , Hark Bohm , Horst Buchholz , Ida Ehre , OW Fischer , Gert Fröbe , Joachim Fuchsberger , Martin Held , Klaus Kinski , Viktor de Kowa , Curd Jürgens , Ruth Leuwerik , Siegfried Lowitz , Wolfgang Lukschy , Liselotte Pulver , Heinz Reincke , Heinz Rühmann , Maria Schell , Nadja Tiller or Wolfgang Völz . From many personalities in the film and theater world ̵ such as B. von Helmut Käutner ̵ also made more private recordings.

Notoriety

Just as her acting photos were included in the current reporting in the Hamburg newspapers and were included in numerous book publications, her still photos from the films were not only shown in the notice boxes of the cinemas, but also through multiple reprints in magazines (e.g. in “Film und Frau ”) is responsible for the first public impression of the films in question. Time and again, her photos became very well known. In 1951, with a portrait photo of the Copenhagen-based painter Paul René Gauguin, she was among the top five winners at the International Rollei Competition from among 55,000 submissions. Under the heading “Film Photo wanders around the world. A picture of the German zone border shakes millions ”was reported in 1954 via a photo of her at Helmut Käutner's Sky Without Stars . A photo of her is also very well known, showing Klaus Kinski as a declamator and used on February 22, 1961 as the cover picture of the magazine Der Spiegel . Her own photo reports also contributed to her popularity. - A more comprehensive posthumous appraisal of their work is still pending.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1863-1927. For family history see: Hans du Vinage: Die du Vinage, Duvinage, Duvenage: 1331-1933. History and documents. Stargard i. Pom. 1933; and: Renate du Vinage: librarian to the kings Friedrich Wilhelm IV. and Wilhelm I of Prussia. The life story of Charles Duvinage (1804-1871). With an edition of his correspondence with Alexander von Humboldt . Books on Demand GmbH: Norderstedt 2005, p. 183.
  2. ↑ For family history see: Leopold and Hans von Skopnik: History of the family von Skopnik. O. Brandstetter, Leipzig 1912.
  3. ↑ 1911–1993, living as a painter in Sweden since the 1960s, cf. : Birgitta Borg: Béatrice du Vinage. Från Berlin till Kallegutta. En Europés historia. Närketryck, Hallsberg 2011.
  4. ↑ “The photographers, who were recruited from the elite of the photo and film scene at the time, each had five identical sets of their photos to be framed and labeled to deliver to the ministry. The campaign lasted until the last days of the war. " Color slide archive in the Central Institute for Art History Cf. also: Ralf Peters: Gerettet: the color documentation" Culturally valuable wall and ceiling painting in historical monuments of Greater Germany "from 1943 - 1945 , In: Kunstchronik , 55, 2002, pp. 242-244.
  5. ↑ 'sic': An excursion into Hamburg's press history. In: DJV-Info 4/2002, pp. 10–11, here p. 10.
  6. ↑ 'Ba.': Do you know this woman? You don't have to be a star to be in a movie. In: The Green Leaf. Germany's big weekly newspaper. No. 5, vol. 10, Dortmund 1. – 7. February 1958.
  7. ↑ NN: What is a still photographer? In: Frau im Spiegel , H. 23, June 7, 1958.
  8. ↑ z. B. Cover and four photos in: Peter Reichelt / Ina Brockmann: Klaus Kinski 'I am the way I am' . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2001, ( cover illustration , accessed on September 20, 2018).
  9. ↑ Star-Revue , Hamburg, No. 23/1954, p. 16.
  10. ↑ Star-Revue , Hamburg, No. 23/1954, p. 16.
  11. ↑ See web links. Also used as the cover of the CD Klaus Kinski speaks (Deutsche Grammophon Literatur, 2001).
  12. ↑ See e.g. E.g .: Gabriele du Vinage: remember Josephine Baker . In: HIM , May 5, 1976, pp. 56-57.
personal data
SURNAME Vinage, you Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES gabriele (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2009
Place of death Hamburg