Hermann Dieter Oemler

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Hermann Dieter Oemler (* 1939 in Wernigerode ; † December 30, 2011 ) was a German photographer and author whose work focused primarily on the history of his hometown Wernigerode.

Life

Dieter Oemler was already interested in local history and photography in his youth. The trained salesman has been building up a photo archive at Wernigerode Castle since 1972 and worked as a photographer in the Feudal Museum, which was located in the castle, until the early 1990s. He published three illustrated books about Wernigerode and devoted himself to researching social housing , architectural monuments, the history of monument preservation and the history of Wernigerode's Judaism . In addition, he wrote articles for various local history magazines, such as the “Neue Wernigeröder Zeitung”. His photos can be found in his own publications and others. a. in publications by Konrad Breitenborn , Uwe Lagatz , Manfred Oelsner and Georg von Gynz-Rekowski .

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oemler ran a publishing house in which, in addition to his own writings, from 1996 to 2003 the Unterm Brocken series published by the Wernigerode Heimat- und Geschichtsverein . Wernigeröder Heimatblätter appeared.

In 2012 an exhibition with photographs from Oemler from six decades took place in the Harz Museum Wernigerode .

From 1986 until shortly before his death, Oemler and his wife Evelyne mapped the mushrooms in the Wernigerode district .

Works

  • Half-timbered house in Wernigerode . Episode 1. Schmiedicke Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1984 (Leporello).
  • Half-timbered house in Wernigerode . Episode 2. Schmiedicke Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1986 (Leporello).
  • Social housing in Wernigerode from its beginnings to 1990 . Wernigerode 2003.
  • Wernigerode (The archive images series) . Sutton , Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-096-0 .
  • Wernigerode 1949 to 1989 (The series of pictures from the GDR) . Sutton, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-552-1 .
  • Half-timbered house in Wernigerode . Oemler, Wernigerode 1999, ISBN 3-9805751-1-X .
  • Wernigerode (leaps in time) . Sutton, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-849-2 .
  • Evelyne Oemler, Dieter Oemler, Thomas Schultz: The mycoflora of the Wernigerode-Himmelpforte area . In: Treatises and reports from the Museum Heineanum . tape 9 , 2012, p. 1-67 .

literature

  • Georg von Gynz-Rekowski : Brocken. History, home, humor. Gerig, Königstein / Taunus 1991, ISBN 3-928275-05-4 , pp. 7 .
  • Gottfried Werther: Photo artist and tireless chronicler. On the death of the photographer, mushroom expert and book author Hermann D. Oemler from Wernigerode. Volksstimme , January 7, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013 .
  • Gerd Ilte: “Why my death annoys me”. Hermann Dieter Oemler is no longer alive - a loss for Wernigerode . In: New Wernigeröder newspaper . No. 2 , 2012, p. 7 .
  • Gerd Ilte: Hermann Dieter Oemler - an obituary. In: Wernigeröder Official Journal No. 1/2012 of January 28, 2012, p. 8 ( digital library , accessed on January 10, 2018).

Web links

Commons : Hermann Dieter Oemler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Fischer: Oemler exhibition shows a cross-section from 60 years of photography. Volksstimme, January 7, 2012, accessed January 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Entry in the common union catalog. Retrieved February 5, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Oemler, Hermann Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oemler, Hermann D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2011