Hans Rama
Hans Rama (born November 29, 1906 in Passenheim , † November 3, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German photographer in the middle of the 20th century .
life and work
Rama initially worked as an accountant at a bank in Allenstein and did not begin his professional training as a photographer until after his release in September 1932. In 1936 he volunteered with Franz Fiedler in Dresden, set up his own photo studio on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in 1937 and passed the master's examination 1938.
Rama's mostly somewhat dark portraits are considered to be style-defining for his time. Numerous celebrities from the 1950s and 1960s, especially artists, had themselves portrayed by Hans Rama and were regularly exhibited in frameless prints in the 50 × 60 cm format in the showcases of the photo studio on Kurfürstendamm. B. Gottfried Benn , Tilla Durieux , Maria Schell , Walter Höllerer , Hans Werner Henze , Tatjana Gsovsky , Catherine Gayer , the painter Otto Eglau and the fashion journalist Baron Hermann Eelking .
In addition to portrait photography, Rama became particularly well known through dance photography (especially with studio shots) and is considered the most important competitor of the most famous ballet photographer of his time, Siegfried Enkelmann , in post-war Germany . Rama photographed the most prominent German ballet soloists of the 1950s and, for example, his photos of Klaus Kinski's participation in the ballet Der Idiot (based on Dostoyevsky , 1952) are still popular today. Rama's photo studio quickly became a meeting point for artists, especially for the ballet world.
After Hans Rama's death, his wife and colleague Maria Rama (1911–1997) continued the photo studio. Above all, she documented for decades the life of Günter Grass’s family friends , one of her cameras, an “Agfa-Box”, in literary terms in the second volume of his memoir Die Box. Darkroom Stories (2008) incorporated.
Photo archive
The holdings of the photo archive of Hans and Maria Rama were purchased from several public collections, namely from the Berlinische Galerie , the German Dance Archive Cologne , the archive of the Academy of Arts Berlin (Grass) and the German Theater Museum in Munich .
Web links
- Photos and text about Hans Rama as a portrait photographer at the German Dance Archive Cologne.
- Günter Grass Archive / Maria Rama Collection in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rama, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Passenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1967 |
| Place of death | Berlin |