Heinz Schmidt-Bachem

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Heinz Schmidt-Bachem (born in 1940 in Schwedt an der Oder ; died on May 8, 2011 in Düren ) was a German stationery and bookseller , educator for the blind and paper historian. In over 30 years of collecting, he created his Portable Art Museum , the world's largest collection of paper and plastic bags. The museum has been closed since the death of Heinz Schmidt-Bachem in May 2011.

Life

Heinz Schmidt-Bachem completed an apprenticeship as a stationery dealer and as a bookseller. He had been severely visually impaired since the late 1960s . In Mannheim he studied social pedagogy with a diploma in 1975 and in Hamburg history for the teaching profession for the blind pedagogy. He then worked in adult education for the blind in Düren until 2000 . In the same year he did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in the department of economics and social science with the study of bags and plastic bags on the history of the paper and packaging industry. Schmidt-Bachem died in 2011 shortly before the delivery of his main work Made of Paper .

Collecting

Since the mid-1970s, Heinz Schmidt-Bachem has been collecting more than 150,000 industrial paper and foil processing products for over 30 years, mainly bags made of paper and plastic . He built the largest plastic bag archive in the country in a nuclear bunker in Düren and founded the Portable Art Museum in 1995 . Schmidt-Bachem presented its exhibits at various exhibitions. Most recently he dealt with the history and artistic design of advertising stamps .

Work (selection)

  • Of bags and plastic bags: Studies on the history of the paper, cardboard and plastics processing industry in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries with special consideration of the paper and film processing industry for the production of bags, bags, carrier bags , Diss. Univ. Hamburg 2000
  • Bags, pouches, carrier bags. On the history of the paper, cardboard and plastics processing industry in Germany , Waxmann, Münster et al. 2001, ISBN 978-3-8309-1037-4 and ISBN 3-8309-1037-1 ; limited preview in Google Book search
  • From paper: a cultural and economic history of the paper processing industry in Germany , De Gruyter, Berlin; Boston, Mass. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023607-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Lorenz: Heinz Schmidt-Bachems Lifetime Achievement: From Paper (and Plastics) , Review and Obituary in: Konrad Vanja, Detlef Lorenz, Alberto Milano, Sigrid Nagy (Eds.): Working Group Image Printing Paper. Conference proceedings Épinal 2011 , work group image printing paper volume 16, Waxmann, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2711-2 , p. 202 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ Aesthetic facets of paper as a material , Aachener Nachrichten , July 4th 2011
  3. ↑ Marcus Jauer: From the beautiful plastic world: The last bag , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 9, 2013
  4. ↑ Everything in Bags: The Story of an Everyday Object , 3sat , January 2011
  5. ^ PAM - Portable Art Museum , RheinischeMuseen.de
  6. ↑ Andreas Bongartz: Fascinated by small treasures , Aachener Nachrichten , February 5, 2008
  7. ↑ Advertising stamps. Small brands - big names: poster art in miniature ( memento of the original from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University and City Library Cologne , October 1, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ub.uni-koeln.de
  8. ↑ Swen Steinberg: H. Schmidt-Bachem: Aus Papier , review in H-Soz-Kult , December 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Bachem, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwedt / Oder
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2011
Place of death Düren