Herbert Maschke (photographer)

Herbert Maschke (born June 7, 1915 in Jarotschin ; † June 13, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German photographer and ran a postcard publisher.

Life

He was born as the third son of the architect Wilhelm Maschke and his wife Clara, b. Thiemen born. From 1921 to 1933 he attended school in Breslau and received his first photographic training at Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn as an editor in training and photo reporter . In 1936 he did his labor service in the Bildstelle des Gaus Schlesien , in 1937 he joined the German Wehrmacht's intelligence service in Breslau. In 1941 he became a radio operations teacher at the Army and Air Force Intelligence School in Halle (Saale) and worked as a still photographer for film.

For political reasons he left the GDR in 1952 and moved to West Berlin . There he initially worked as a photo journalist and freelance photographer. In 1957 he founded a postcard publisher, which he successfully ran for almost 20 years. With the camera, he was always on the lookout for attractive subjects. In this way, impressive long-term studies of urban change were created, starting with black-and-white photos of war-torn Berlin through to reconstruction. It documented the tremendous construction activity on Kurfürstendamm as well as the inner-city border. Impressive aerial photographs of Berlin testify to Maschke's broad photographic spectrum.

literature

• Economic miracle West Berlin. Photographs by Herbert Maschke. Nicolai Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89479-765-2