Hans-Jürgen Raabe

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Hans-Jürgen Raabe (born May 18, 1952 in Northern Germany) is a German photographer , journalist , publicist and publisher .

Life

Raabe was a student of the Kiel theater photographer Erika Haendler-Krah (1893–1979). As a photographer, he mainly devoted himself to black and white photography in the 1980s, which resulted in the illustrated books Berlin Graffiti (1982) and Schöneberg (1984). At the same time he worked as a journalist for various print media, including Bunte and Bild .

Since around 2010 he has devoted himself to photography again. Since then, portraits and stills have been the focus of his photographic work.

Raabe lives in Salzburg , where he works as managing director of Raabe Vermögensverwaltungs GmbH, which he founded in June 2013, and as a photographer.

Controversy

Raabe hit the headlines in the 1990s when it became known that, as a pharmaceutical journalist , he had praised nutritional supplements in editorial articles in return for a fee and a share of the turnover . In a report by Der Spiegel magazine with the headline The Bought Journalist , Raabe was described as the “prototype of this surreptitious advertiser so valued by the industry”. According to this, he wrote of various preparations and products as “amazing healing powers” ​​in his texts, some of them on the first page of the Bild newspaper . As early as 1993, the German Press Council had criticized a Raabe article about a vitamin preparation in Bild der Frau . According to Spiegel magazine , the hallmark of these products was that they had a high price, low material value and a dubious effect. Furthermore, Raabe's annual fee was given as "easy at a few hundred thousand marks". A Bavarian pharmaceutical and diet entrepreneur also testified that Raabe had received a ten percent commission on sales from her for “courtesy items in the colorful, about 1.3 million marks”.

photography

990 Faces is the name of the conceptual long-term photographic project by Hans-Jürgen Raabe, the completion of which is to take a decade. Since 2010 he has been traveling to various countries and continents, including selected locations such as Myanmar, Lourdes or New York's 5th Avenue, documenta (13) and the Brandenburg Gate . Each of his 33 site-specific series combines 30 individual portraits as well as 10 still lifes. In 10 years, 990 faces are to be created on site, which will grow into a “portrait of humanity”.

Exhibitions

  • 2012/13: Galerie Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin, Myanmar, Lourdes, Oktoberfest
  • 2013: focus Galerie Burkhard Arnold, Cologne, Lourdes - Faces and Stills
  • 2013/14: Istanbul photographer Müzesi (Museum of Photography), Istanbul, Myanmar to the Eiffel Tower
  • 2014: focus Galerie Burkhard Arnold, Cologne, stills from the series Myanmar to Eiffel Tower
  • 2014: The PhotoBookMuseum, Carlswerk, Cologne-Mülheim, installation of the series Myanmar to Greenland
  • 2014: Galerie Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin, Marrakech to Greenland

Publications (selection)

  • Berlin graffiti . Nicolai Verlag, 1982
  • Schöneberg. A district of Berlin . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann Berlin, 1984
  • Köhnlechner's heart diet. Recipes for the whole year . Peter Erd Verlag, Munich, 1990
  • Köhnlechner's cancer diet. For body, mind and soul . Peter Erd Verlag, Munich, 1990
  • Secret healthy. New holistic strategies for better health . Peter Erd Verlag, Munich, 1991
  • Secret slim. Lose weight holistically. New methods. From Ayurveda to Zen . Publishing house Peter Erd, Munich, 1992
  • Secret young & beautiful - the first guide for women and men . Publishing house Peter Erd, Munich, 1992
  • Check-Up, the big BILD health test . Ullstein, 1993
  • Günter Strack, my separation diet . Ullstein Verlag, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiener Zeitung of May 7, 2013, page 39, Official Gazette ( Memento of the original of August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienerzeitung.at
  2. ↑ Surreptitious advertising: case for the police . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1994, pp. 33-35 ( online - 4 July 1994 ).
  3. ^ The bought journalist , in: Die Journalisten , Spiegel Special, January 1, 1995
  4. ↑ Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: The view of the traveler. (No longer available online.) In: Wiesbadener Kurier . January 7, 2014, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiesbadener-kurier.de
personal data
SURNAME Raabe, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, journalist, publicist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Northern Germany