Harald Hauswald

Harald Hauswald, 2015

Harald Hauswald (born May 3, 1954 in Radebeul ) is a German photographer who became known for his everyday and Berlin photographs. He is co-founder of the Ostkreuz picture agency .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a photographer (1970–1972) and work in Radebeul, Harald Hauswald moved to Berlin in 1977 , where he initially pursued various activities, such as a stoker , restorer , photo laboratory assistant and then in his learned profession as a photographer in the Stephanus Foundation in Berlin-Weissensee . In 1989 he was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK).

Mainly through the book Berlin-Ost: The other side of a city , which he made together with Lutz Rathenow , Hauswald is considered an important critical chronicler of the end times of the GDR. He was observed by the GDR State Security (MfS) under the name of a cyclist because of his too realistic photos .

He has been working as a freelancer since 1990. His photo reports were featured in GEO , Stern and ZEITmagazin, among others. On September 23, 1996, Hauswald received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 2006, the Unity Prize (Citizens Prize for German Unity) from the Federal Agency for Civic Education followed .

In 2007 he was able to win over numerous well-known authors such as Freya Klier , Thomas Brussig and Alexander Osang for his book Alexanderplatz: Photographic and literary memories to write down their very personal experiences and impressions of the square.

In 2009 he presented some of his works in the group exhibition Ostzeit: Stories from a Past Land in the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

In 2013 his photo book Far East: The Last Years of the GDR appeared. Photographs 1986–1990 .

In 2017 the volume "Ost-Berlin" appeared in a new edition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the first publication. In a foreword, the historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk et al. a. how the MfS reacted to the publication.

Works

Books with Lutz Rathenow :

• Berlin-East: The other side of a city . Piper Verlag, Munich 1987; Harenberg Verlag, Dortmund 1989; BasisDruck, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-86163-006-0 .
• East Berlin: Life Before the Fall of the Wall . Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89773-522-9 .
• Turned: Before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall . Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89773-532-6 .
• Anniversary edition: East Berlin. The vanished city. With an introduction by Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk . Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3897738218 .

More photo books:

• The GDR turns 50: texts and photographs . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-351-02479-7 .
• The third half: hooligans in East Berlin . Verlag Thomas Tilsner, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-940213-01-2 .
• Changing sides: photographs 1979–1999 . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-351-02489-4 .
• Alexanderplatz: Photographic and literary memories . Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89773-568-2 .
• Ultras Kutten Hooligans: Football fans in East Berlin (with Frank Willmann). Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89773-588-0 .
• Far East: The Last Years of the GDR. Photographs 1986–1990 . Lehmstadt Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-942473-50-7 .
• Before times: everyday life in the east. Photographs 1976–1990 , edited by Mathias Bertram , Lehmstedt Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942473-66-8 .
• Goodbye East Berlin. Photographs 1986–1990 . Lehmstedt, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-957970-26-8 .

Filmography

• 2008 photo film cyclist . Documentation about the spying on Hauswald by the Ministry for State Security (MfS), directed by Marc Thümmler ; Available online through the arte media library until February 6, 2020.

literature

• Short biography for:  Hauswald, Harald . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Ingeborg Ruthe: A scarred face, the easternmost, most honest of the city . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 16, 2007
• Anke Westphal: Harald Hauswald and the "Cyclist" case . In: Berliner Zeitung , 12./13. April 2008

Web links

• Harald Hauswald's website
• Literature by and about Harald Hauswald in the catalog of the German National Library
• The film "Cyclists" at the Federal Agency for Political Education
• Harald Hauswald's archive: The GDR in 250,000 individual recordings , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, broadcast “Kompressor” from March 26, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ harald-hauswald.de
2. ↑ dradio.de
3. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/presse/198252/laudatio-von-thomas-krueger-zur-preisverleihung-zum-wettbewerb-25-jahre-mauerfall-geschichte-erinnern-gegenwart-gestalten-in-der-vertretung -of-the-state-of-brandenburg-at-the-federal-on-9-december-2014-in-berlin
4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
5. ↑ Rediscovered GDR photos: The last fight on the beer bottle . In: Spiegel Online ; review