Hassan Mahramzadeh

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Hassan Mahramzadeh with camera in the Georgengarten in Hanover;
Self-portrait , 2014

Hassan Mahramzadeh (* 1941 in Tehran ) is an Iranian-German computer scientists , graduate engineer and documentary - Photographer and lecturer on digital photography at the University of Hannover .

Life

Hassan Mahramzadeh was born in the Persian capital Tehran during the Second World War in 1941 . After graduating from high school, he and a friend were approved to study in the United States. On the way there they first traveled through Europe and in 1963 also visited Cologne . This city and the Federal Republic as a whole impressed Mahramzadeh so much that he wanted to study in Germany instead of the USA. After clarification by the Iranian Consulate in Cologne he provided the required study in Germany evidence "[...] good German language skills" through which it a place at through the mediation of the consulate within just 6 weeks Berlin at the city's Technical University received .

Before starting his studies, Hassan Mahramzadeh met Alois Böll , the brother of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, while working in Cologne . Böll helped Mahramzadeh to refine the German language and made him familiar with the German way of life. Then Mahramzadeh was able to study computer science with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service "[...] exclusively with top grades" and the title Dipl.-Ing. to lock.

In 1972 Mahramzadeh started in Hanover at the university there as a research assistant at the Regional Computing Center for Lower Saxony (RRZN) in the field of "Scientific Visualization ".

Now Hassan Mahramzadeh began the optimistic mood of the 1970s in Hanover through the street art experiment initiated by City Director Martin Neuffer and city image maintainer Mike Gehrke , the nationwide first old town festival and the establishment of the old town flea market on the Hohe Ufer with photographs and photo documentation . Since then he has documented, for example, the first Maschsee Festival , all international fireworks competitions , all awards of the Leibniz Ring , the first art festival in Herrenhausen and for more than three decades the small festival in the Great Garden . For Niki de Saint Phalle , who could not be there for health reasons, he recorded the expansion of her grotto in the Great Garden with photos that the artist had hung in her hospital room in San Diego .

Hassan Mahramzadeh (fourth from left) in 2016 during the family celebration for the 775th anniversary celebration in Hanover in the Maschpark

Shortly before the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Brockhaus- Verlag published a first illustrated book of Leipzig's twin city Hanover, with photos exclusively by Mahramzadeh. Since then, Mahramzadeh has published six illustrated books about the Lower Saxony state capital, some in English, as well as postcards and calendars , which are often collected or used as gifts for guests by Hanover’s mayor on trips abroad.

Almost all of the photographs with which the city of Hanover applied for the world exhibition at the Expo office in Paris came from Mahramzadeh. He documented the Expo 2000 with around 11,000 photos, which are now stored in the archive of the Exposeeum and which formed the basis for numerous posters . They have been shown at exhibitions at Siemens and in Hiroshima .

From 1990 and for around a quarter of a century, Mahramzadeh was a member of the jury at the International Fireworks Competition in Herrenhausen.

As a lecturer at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Mahramzadeh offered students and members of the university a photography workshop for high dynamic range images (HDR) in the training room of the RRZN in 2010 .

On December 2, 2015, Hassan Mahramzadeh was honored for his work in the orangery of the Herrenhausen Gardens by the Friends of Hanover with the award of the Hanover City Culture Prize.

Publications (selection)

  • Sybille Nobel-Sagolla, Dieter Sagolla: Hanover (= Brockhaus-Souvenir ), illustrated book, photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, 1st edition, Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-325-00326-5
  • Anne Winkel-Kirch: Hanover live. An illustrated book , photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, design: Klaus Zimmer, Adolf Sponholtz, Hannover, Hameln 1991, ISBN 3-87766-068-1
    • Anne Winkel-Kirch: Hanover. A pictorial essay , photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hanover; Hameln, 1991, ISBN 3-87766-069-X
  • Sybille Nobel-Sagolla, Dieter Sagolla: Hanover (= Falken-Sachbuch ) (= Brockhaus Souvenir ), Photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, Falken Verlag, Niedernhausen / Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-8068-3514-4
  • Giselher Schaar : Hanover - City of EXPO 2000 , photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1997, ISBN 3-87706-828-6 ; contents
  • Karen Roske et al .: The old town. The city of Hanover and Nobilis present ... , photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, ed. from the state capital Hanover, press office, department for communication, Grütter, Hanover 1999
  • Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens e. V. Edition 2010 , photos: Hassan Mahramzadeh, Ed .: Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens eV, 1st edition, Madsack Supplement, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-940308-37-5

Web links

Commons : Hassan Mahramzadeh  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Erwin Schütterle: Laudation ... for Dipl.Ing. Hassan Mahramzadeh, City Culture Prize Winner 2015 / awarded on December 2nd, 2015 in the Herrenhausen Orangery ( Memento of the original from March 29th, 2016 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. , Laudation from December 2, 2015 (PDF document) on the freundeskreis-hannover.de website , last accessed on November 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freundeskreis-hannover.de
  2. ↑ a b Conrad von Meding: "He is a picture of Hanover" / City Culture Prize goes to Hassan Mahramzadeh / So many guests have never accepted the invitation to the City Culture Prize: More than 500 visitors celebrated the honor for on Wednesday evening in the Herrenhausen Orangery Photographer Hassan Mahramzadeh. , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 2, 2015, updated on December 5, 2015, last accessed on November 15, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Christian Kaufer: I have a dream about a folder on the website wochenblaetter.de from October 3, 2015, last accessed on November 16, 2016
  4. ↑ Christoph Dannowski: Herrenhausen / Switzerland wins fireworks competition on the Neue Presse website on September 21, 2014, last accessed on November 16, 2016
  5. ^ Hassan Mahramzadeh: Workshop HDR photography (High Dynamic Range) on the page mahramzadeh.de , last accessed on November 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mahramzadeh, Hassan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German documentary photographer, lecturer and author of illustrated books
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran