Hilmar Pabel

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hilmar Pabel (born September 17, 1910 in Rawitsch , Province of Posen ; † November 6, 2000 in Alpen near Wesel ) was a German journalist , photographer and initiator of the Red Cross child search campaign after the Second World War . Despite his involvement in the war propaganda of National Socialism , he can be considered one of the most important German representatives of humanistic and educational press photography.

Life

The son of a merchant began taking photos in 1924 at the age of fourteen. In 1929 he learned photography at the Agfa Photo School in Berlin. From 1930 to 1935 he studied German , philosophy and newspaper studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin with Emil Dovifat . He then worked as a freelancer for various newspapers, such as the Illustrirte Zeitung .

During the Second World War he worked as a war correspondent and photographer for a propaganda company . Among other things, he photographed in the ghetto of Lublin . These recordings were also published - with anti-Semitic captions. At the end of the war he was a prisoner of war for a short time.

In 1945 he worked for the Bavarian Red Cross and was one of the initiators of its child search campaign. In this context, he himself photographed more than 2000 children in order to find their parents or relatives. In 1947 he created his series of pictures Heimkehrer , for which he accompanied a war returnees with the camera. Later Pabel worked for the illustrated magazine Quick , for which he traveled to the GDR , Nepal , Indonesia , Japan , China , Taiwan , numerous African countries, the USSR and the USA . But Paris Match and Life printed his photo reports. In 1961 he received the culture award of the German Society for Photography . 1961–1970 he worked as a photographer for Stern . He created haunting series of images for the magazine during the Vietnam War ( The Little Orchid , 1964 and Thuan May Live Again , 1968) and during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia . After 1970 he worked again as a freelance photographer.

In 1963 he married the author and journalist Romy Schurhammer . The riding instructor, children's and horse book author Andrea Pabel is one of his two daughters.

Pabel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon and later with 1st class, which he returned in 1987. The reason was a fine imposed on his daughter fined, because of their participation in a sit-in of the access of American Pershing II depots on the Mutlanger Heath was pronounced in the wake of the peace movement.

Photo books

  • Years of our life. German images of fate . Stuttgart 1954
  • Face of the east . Hamburg 1960
  • Images of humanity . 12 classic reports . Munich, Lucerne 1983: Bucher. ISBN 978-3-7658-0411-3
  • Hilmar & Romy Pabel: In Marco Polo's footsteps: Silk Road expedition . Munich 1986
  • Hilmar & Romy Pabel: Adventure Canada . Munich 1987
  • Stephan A. Vogelskamp / Roland Günther (text) & Hilmar Pabel (photos): The sweet life . Essen 2005

literature

  • Hans Dieter Heilmann: Ghetto photographer of humanity. On the scandal surrounding the ghetto report by the famous photo reporter Hilmar Pabel. A conversation with HD Heilmann (Interview: Mathias Bröckers). In: the daily newspaper , born in 12, May 31, 1989, pp 1, 11-12 (title: The opportunist than image perpetrators '. Hilmar Pabel, photographer of humanity', made in the 3rd Reich with racist Hetzfotos career with. Facsimiles and old quotations).
  • Bruno Arnold: A lifetime in search of humanity . In: Photo Technik International 2000
  • Ruth May: Stalinstadt 1955. The "New Man", viewed from the West. A quick report . In: Utopie Kreativ 118 (2000), pp. 747-760.
  • Munzinger, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/2001 from March 19, 2001.
  • Marcel Beyer : Leica, in: ders .: The blind weeping century. Berlin 2017. pp. 9-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Hilmar Pabel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ DIED: Hilmar Pabel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 2000 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Pabel, Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawitsch , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2000
Place of death Alps near Wesel