Hanns Hubmann

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Hanns Hubmann (right) 1977 with Franz Heubl
Hubmann with his own signature at an exhibition in early 1969

Hanns Hubmann (born June 21, 1910 in Freden / Leine; † May 8, 1996 in Ulm ) was a German photographer and photojournalist . Hubmann mainly photographed political and sports events. From the Third Reich to the late years of the old Federal Republic , he followed the powerful with his camera - from Adolf Hitler to Helmut Kohl .

Life

Hubmann studied engineering with a specialty in paper technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt until 1931 . His first recordings were a sports report at the 1930 Student Olympics. He gave up engineering studies, studied newspaper science at the University of Munich from 1931 and, at the same time, trained as a photographer at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich . In addition, he mainly worked for the Münchner Illustrierte .

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1935 Hubmann worked for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung . During these years he published photo reports on the Spanish fascist Francisco Franco and the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . For the magazine Der Stern , which also appeared in large numbers in 1938/1939 , he photographed extensive image sequences of film shoots, sporting events and theater performances. From 1939 he worked briefly for the American magazine Life . After returning to Germany, he worked as a photo reporter for propaganda companies during the war . He did the photographic part of a number of reports on concentration camps and armaments factories as well as reports glorifying war. Many of his recordings were published in the Nazi propaganda illustrated Signal , which is published in various languages .

After 1945

Immediately after the end of the war, Hubmann became chief photographer of the European edition of the American soldiers' magazine Stars & Stripes . In 1948 he was co-founder of the illustrated magazine Quick , from 1948 to 1980 one of the most important photographers of the paper. He photographed actors such as Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz as well as Adenauer's state visit to the Soviet Union in 1955. But Fidel Castro and Franz Josef Strauss in private surroundings were also among his subjects. In 1970 he accompanied Willy Brandt to Erfurt and Warsaw , and in 1980 Helmut Kohl's last assignment was to China .

In 1980 Hubmann said that he had been “a completely apolitical person all his life” and in the same year the journalist Raimund le Viseur declared in his foreword to Hubmann's memorandum Eyewitness: 1933–1945 , whose behavior during World War II was flawless: “He was there, but he didn't 'take part'. From a human point of view, he was always inviolable. "

Publications

  • Hanns Hubmann (Ed.): Festschrift of the Technical University and the Darmstadt Student Union on the occasion of the IV. International Student Championships: from August 1 to 10, 1930. Darmstadt 1930
  • Arthur Steiner (texts), Hanns Hubmann (photos): New York. World city of the west. Hamburg 1959
  • Heinz Schewe (texts), Hanns Hubmann (photos): Moscow. Cosmopolitan city of the east. Hamburg 1959
  • Hanns Hubmann: The last cowboys. Reutlingen 1961
  • Hanns Hubmann (Ed.): Photo Expo. Documents from 20 years of current affairs. Munich 1968
  • Franz Hugo Mösslang (texts), Hanns Hubmann (photos): Seen and shot. Munich 1969
  • Ruth Gassmann (text), Hanns Hubmann (photos): Children, Helga for parents. Rosenheim 1970
  • Walter Pause / Hanns Hubmann: Mountain photo today. Munich 1971
  • Hanns Hubmann: Garden of Dreams. 23 naive painters. Munich 1973
  • Hanns Hubmann: The thorny muse: 30 cartoonists. Munich 1974
  • Hanns Hubmann: Eyewitness: 1933–1945. Munich 1980
  • Hanns Hubmann: The Adenauer period 1949–1967. Munich 1983
  • Hanns Hubmann: The Hitler Period 1933–1945. Munich 1984
  • Hanns Hubmann: This is how it started: Memories and pictures from 1945-49. Braunschweig 1988

Secondary literature

  • Franz Hugo Mösslang (Ed.): Report of the reporter: how they get their photo success. Seebruck 1964.
  • Michael Hallett: Hanns Hubmann. In: History of photography. 20. 1996, pp. 89-92.
  • Christian Binder: Photographed Reality? The Bavarian Forest in photographs by Hanns Hubmann and Arthur Grimm. Master's thesis Univ. Regensburg 1999.
  • Christian Binder: Waidler clichés and National Socialist propaganda: the Bavarian Forest in pictures by Hanns Hubmann and Arthur Grimm. In: clearing. 13. 2000, pp. 10-14.
  • Reinhold Mißelbeck (Ed.): Prestel-Lexicon of Photographers. Munich u. a. 2002, p. 122.
  • Rolf Sachsse : The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-364-00390-4 (with short biography p. 396)
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: Hanns Hubmann. Press photographer was born 100 years ago in Freden / Leine. , in "InfoFax: Fotografie" (Schellerten), ISSN  0947-8418 , 17th year, June 2nd, 2010, 1 b / w illus.
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: “I caught the whole earth!” Press photographer Hanns Hubmann was born in Freden / Leine , in: Sven Abromeit (ed.) From home. Born 2010 , Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg (Hildesheim 2010), ISBN 978-3-8067-8748-1 , pp. 93-96.
  • Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86962-097-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Sachsse : The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, p. 396.
  2. ↑ a b Tim Tolsdorff: From the Stern-Schnuppe to the Fix-Stern. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, p. 235.
  3. ^ Rainer Rutz: Signal. A German illustrated abroad as a propaganda instrument in World War II. Klartext, Essen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-720-8 , p. 206 u. P. 233.
  4. ↑ http://www.konrad-adenauer.de/index.php?msg=336
  5. ↑ http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/2963/jeder_ Schuss_ein_treffer.html
  6. ↑ Quoted from Rainer Rutz: Signal. A German illustrated abroad as a propaganda instrument in World War II. Klartext, Essen 2007, p. 398.

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personal data
SURNAME Hubmann, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Freden , leash
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1996
Place of death Ulm