Georg Schödl

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Georg Schödl (born August 22, 1899 in Munich , † April 5, 1981 in Eggstätt ) was a German press and war photographer .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a photographer, Georg Schödl took part in the First World War and was taken prisoner by the French in 1918.

German Empire 1933 to 1945

From 1933 Georg Schödl worked as a freelance press photographer in Munich - mostly for the evening newspaper . In his photos, pictures from art events, portraits of famous painters and sculptors occupy a large place. With his photographs he documented numerous art events in southern Germany and Austria. He has made a name for himself for around 40 years by documenting Munich's city history.

In World War II he was in 1939 as a war photographer in the function of a special leader in Air Force - Kriegsberichter -Kompanie ( propaganda troupe used). The historian Bernd-A. In his dissertation, Rusinek describes society in disaster. Terror, illegality, resistance - Cologne 1944/45 an event when Schödl happened to witness the execution of the Poles who were deported to Germany for forced labor by the Nazi regime on October 25, 1944 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld when he returned from the Aachen Front and became a Soviet citizen and documented the event photographically. The recordings were later used to investigate the incident and the execution of members of the Ehrenfeld group on November 10, 1944 by the Gestapo and the SS . The photos are in the stock of the picture agency for art, culture and history . Schödl escaped the war unharmed in 1945.

After 1945

From 1946 he started working again as a freelance press photographer in Munich for the evening newspaper and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He also provided photos for the mirror . The details of a portrait photo of the artist Adolf Gerhard made by him in the holdings of the German Art Archives are given his address at Alramstrasse 27a in the Sendling district around 1955.

Schödl died in Eggstätt / Chiemsee in 1981 and was buried in the old forest cemetery in Munich in the family crypt without any further inscription.

reception

To date, there are hundreds of Schödl's photos in the newspaper archives and around 80,000 photographs in the Munich city archive . His photographs from the time of the Third Reich, together with the estates of the photographers Kurt Huhle, Wilhelm Nortz, Maria Penz and Heinz Valérien, form the “NS press photography” collection of the Munich City Archives, which comprises a total of around 50,000 photos. The Theatermuseum Wien owns two of his photos by Harald Kreutzberg , one of which was taken in collaboration with Otti Zacharias .

Many of his photos were used by art historians as part of their research work and to illustrate publications. Art historian Birgit Jooss describes Schödls in Munich City Archives recordings received from the cast, the Transportation and the establishment of the Amazons sculpture in front of the entrance of the Villa Stuck in 1935/36 as "spectacular", as based on Schödls on the back of photos Day-accurate documentation shows that at least two statues were cast. The art historian Karl Arndt also used Schödl's photos from the “ Degenerate Art ” exhibition held in Munich in 1937 as an aid for his research on the subject.

Works (selection)

Portraits: Liesl Karlstadt (1951), Käthe Kruse (1950s), Bernhard Wicki (1951), Johannes Mario Simmel (1953), Eugen Roth (1955), Gabriele Münter (1957), Rupert Stöck (1959), Hans Dürrmeier (1960s Years), Albert Speer jr. (1966), Oskar Kokoschka (1971), Alvar Aalto (1960s) and undated portraits of Benny Goodman , Carolin Reiber , Wolfgang Neuss , Elvis Presley , Henry Moore , Mohamed Mossadegh , Sir Georg Solti in front of an open notebook, Karl Böhm , Hans Knappertsbusch .

Press photos, contemporary history:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries . Allitera Verlag, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 537 [1]
  2. ↑ In: Bernd-A. Rusinek: Society in disaster. Terror, illegality, resistance - Cologne 1944/45 . Klartext, Essen 1989, p. 38, footnote 97. ISBN 3-88474-134-9 (also dissertation, University of Düsseldorf 1988).
  3. ^ Robert Gellately : Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. Oxford University Press, 2001, Photo Credit, No. 35.
  4. ↑ Imprint , Der Spiegel 41/1955.
  5. ↑ Imprint , Der Spiegel 17/1956.
  6. ^ The artist Adolf Gerhard. Digiporta - digital portrait archive.
  7. ↑ z. B. Georg Schödl in the photo archive of the Süddeutsche Zeitung; 295 photos.
  8. ↑ Georg Schödl (1899–1981) ; in: Photo collection , City Archives Munich.
  9. ^ Georg Schödl: Harald Kreutzberg. Photo collection of the Theater Museum Vienna.
  10. ^ Otti Zacharias, Georg Schödl: Harald Kreutzberg. Photo collection of the Theater Museum Vienna.
  11. ↑ Birgit Jooss : The Stuck's Amazon - A "defensive bronze maiden in a bold pose". P. 280. ( pdf ); Original publication: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Ed.): Villa Stuck. Ostfildern 2006, pp. 273–283.
  12. ^ Karl Arndt: National Socialism and "Degenerate Art". Die Kunststadt München 1937. Kehayoff Verlag, 1988, p. 102. ISBN 3-79130-843-2
personal data
SURNAME Schödl, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German press and war photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1981
Place of death Eggstätt