Hubs flute

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Grave of Hubs Flöter in the forest cemetery in Munich-Solln

Hubs Flöter (actually Hubertus Augustinus Flöter ; born November 3, 1910 in Cologne , † May 19, 1976 in Munich ) was a German fashion photographer and photojournalist .

Live and act

Education and time of National Socialism

Flöter gained his first experience in the studio of his uncle, the photographer Eugen Coubillier . From 1928 he studied at the teaching and research institute for photography, chemical graphics, collotype printing and engraving in Munich , where he graduated in 1932 in Willy Zielke's master class . Afterwards he was assistant to Hugo Schmölz in Cologne and from 1935 worked in the Atelier Binder in Berlin . In 1938 he took over this studio in a leading position. With this takeover, he benefited from the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime, because the studio had recently been closed by the regime's trade inspectorate because the owners and the chief photographer Liesel von Stengel were Jews. In addition, from the first issue in 1938, he supplied the film and glamor magazine Der Stern , which appeared in a print run of around 700,000 copies and which operated ostensibly non-political Nazi propaganda, with images. In 1940 he married Ilse Reyer , who continued the studio when Flöter was drafted. During the war years, his wife published numerous fashion photos under the name Hubs and Ilse Flöter , especially in the magazine Die Mode .

Flöter had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 (membership no. 2.102.057), during the Second World War he was head of the UFA picture office in Berlin from 1940 to 1941 , and from 1941 to 1945 he was a photographer for a propaganda company .

Working after the war

After the war he worked with his wife as a press and fashion photographer. In 1949 his wife disappeared on a trip to Austria and has been missing ever since. In 1951 she was pronounced dead.

From 1946 to 1949 the photo report Trümmer-Photos with photos of Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich, Freiburg and other destroyed German cities was published in the magazine Schwäbische Illustrierte .

From 1948 he started working for the magazine Film und Frau . In the following years, Flöter developed into one of the leading fashion photographers in Germany, who depicted the fashion trends from Dior's New Look to the Youthquake of the 1960s in his precise, mostly very static-looking photographs and thus became one of the chroniclers of the German economic miracle. In addition to film and women , Flöter also worked for the women's illustrated Constanze and the fashion houses Horn and Gehringer & Glupp in Berlin, Hauser in Memmingen , Bogner and Schulze-Varell in Munich , Legroux Soeurs in Paris and Höchsmann in Vienna .

In addition to fashion photography, Flöter also took portraits. In June 1948 he succeeded in creating a famous series of portraits of Karl Valentin a few weeks before his death. A list of politicians portrayed by Flöter from 1971 contains over 300 entries. He also created a large number of motorsport recordings on behalf of BMW .

Filmography (selection)

Publications

  • Hubs Flöter, Bernd Füchtenschneider (Red.): Order photography of the 50s. Exhibition catalog CCD Galerie, Düsseldorf, June 8 - July 20, 1984. Düsseldorf 1984.
  • Adelheid Rasche (ed.) / Hubs Flöter (illustrations): Ambassadors of fashion. Star mannequins and photo models of the fifties in international fashion photography . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-89602-377-2 .
  • Wilfried Scharnagl. With photos from Hubs Flöter: Twice Bavaria. Contrasts of an unusual country . Ehrenwirth, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-431-01698-7 .

literature

  • Birgit Boecher: Fashion Photography in Germany. Hubs flute. 1945-1960. Phil. Master's thesis Munich, July 25, 1994.
  • Volker Frank: Flöter, Hubs . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 41, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22781-7 , p. 280.
  • Barbara Golz: Chronology of the life and work of Hubs Flöter. In: Cologne Museum Bulletin. Reports and research from the museums of the city of Cologne. Special issue 1/2 1995, pp. 56-61.
  • FC Gundlach: From the new look to the petticoat. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1984
  • Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Münchner Stadtmuseum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 67.
  • Rolf Sachsse : The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-364-00390-4 (short biography p. 382).
  • Erich Scheibmayr: Last home. Personalities in Munich cemeteries 1784–1984. Scheibmayr, Munich 1989
  • Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86962-097-8 (also dissertation at TU Dortmund 2013).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Sachsse : The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, p. 382.
  2. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86962-097-8 , p. 307.
  3. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, p. 306.
  4. ↑ Rolf Sachsse: The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, p. 382.
  5. ↑ filmportal.de : https://www.filmportal.de/film/das-stahltier_4853dfa246074c888f50b9cf0c797dbd
personal data
SURNAME Flutes, hubs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flöter, Hubertus Augustinus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1976
Place of death Munich