Jens Rötzsch

Jens Rötzsch (* 1959 in Leipzig ) is a German photographer .

Life

The photographer Jens Rötzsch, who lives in Berlin, studied photography at the University for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig. After additional studies in Leipzig and Budapest, with study stays in Paris and London, he lives and works as a freelance photographer in Berlin. His series of reports "Protocol routes" documented the fall of the SED dictatorship in the GDR and showed the new beginning after the fall of the Berlin Wall and peaceful revolution . In 1990 he was a founding member of the Ostkreuz picture agency . Jens Rötzsch publishes his pictures in Zeit Magazin , GEO and Stern and various international magazines. Worldpress Prize Winner 2002 in the Sports Stories category (third prize). From 2004 to 2011 he traveled and photographed Mongolia , the last nomad state in the world, on nine expeditions . In addition to landscape photographs, the work shows the life of the nomads in the country and the rapid development in the capital Ulan Bator .

1977-1980	Military service
1981-1986	Studied photography at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art with Peter Pachnicke, J. Jansong, WG Schröter
1986-1989	Additional studies
1987-1989	Assistant at the University of Applied Arts and Design Budapest
from 1989	freelance in Berlin
1990	Co-founder of the photographer agency Ostkreuz
1992-1999	Lecturer at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
2004-2005	Professorship at the Muthesius Art Academy in Kiel

Exhibitions

• 1985: Kreiskulturhaus Treptow, Berlin (East)
• 1986: Young Artists Club, Budapest
• 1988: Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig. "Protocol routes" joint project with Peter Oehlmann
• 1988: Töldva Gallery, Budapest / Hungary. "Budapest"
• 1988: Museum Ludwig, Cologne. "Prize for Young European Photographers" (as award winner)
• 1989: Galerie am Steinweg, Suhl. "Protocol routes" joint project with Peter Oehlmann
• 1989: Camera-Work-Gallery, London. "Protocol routes", joint project with Peter Oehlmann
• 1990: Exhibition House, Brighton. together with George Coles and Mark Power
• 1992: Galerie Zeger, Rotterdam / Netherlands
• 1999: New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin , "Periphery as Place - The Hellersdorf Project"
• 2002: Amsterdam, Netherlands. “ World Press Photo ” (as award winner) exhibition start
• 2003: Museum Folkwang, Essen. "Wahnzimmer-Germany" Art of the 80s
• 2003: New National Gallery, Berlin / Art and Exhibition Hall of the FRG in Bonn. “Art in the GDR” retrospective
• 2005: La Citadelle de Saint-Florent, Corsica / FR. “10 ans de commandes photographiques au Center Méditerranéen de la Photographie” 1994–2004
• 2007: ifa Gallery Berlin / Stuttgart. "Quilted - Fashion Made in Mongolia"
• 2008: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg. "Elbstücke - Photographs by Heike Ollertz, Jo Röttger, Frank Krems, Jens Rötzsch"
• 2009: Museum Jurmala, Riga / Jurmala Latvia. "Images d'un territoire" (Corsica)
• 2009/10: Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova - Museoon torstaina Turku / Finland. "GDR - Tulokulmia Itä-Saksaan"
• 2009/10: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt. "The other Leipzig School - Photography in the GDR"
• 2009/10: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. "EAST - On record, photographs 1989"
• 2010: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. "Leipzig. Photography since 1839"
• 2012: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. "Closed Society - Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949-1989" "
• 2012: Forum Factory, Berlin. "Home of the large settlement - 50 years of Gropiusstadt "

literature

• "Intermediate Times - Pictures by East German Photographers 1987-1991" , FC Gundlach , Richter Verlag Düsseldorf, 1991
• "Jens Rötzsch - Time Lanes - Color Photographs 1987-1992" , exhibition catalog of the Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung Cottbus, 1993
• “Departure to Germany - OSTKREUZ Sixteen Photo Essays” , Nicolai Verlag Berlin, 1993
• "Contemporary European Architects 2" Benedikt Taschen Cologne, 1993
• " Images - As in a mirror" Museé d'Elysée Lausanne / Edition Braus 1994
• "European Photography Award 1985-1994 '" , Cantz Verlag, 1994
• "Berlin Between Times" Nicolai Verlag Berlin, 1996
• "The German Eye 33 Photographers and Their Reportages" -33 Views of Our Century Schirmer / Mosel Munich, 1996
• "Signatures of the Visible" A Century of Photography in Germany Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 1998
• "Periphery as a place - The Hellersdorf Project " Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, 1999
• "East of Eden - From the GDR to Germany 1974-1999" Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1999
• "Germany - The 16 federal states - newly discovered" a STERN production (Saxony-Anhalt), Bertelsmann Verlag 2000
• "Practicing the outside track - The other culture in Leipzig 1971-1990" , author collective, Thom Verlag 1996/2001
• “Lexicon of Photographers - 1900 to Today” Hans-Michael Koetzle, Knaur 2002
• " Till Lindemann - Messer" poems by Till Lindemann and photos by Jens Rötzsch and Gert Hof, Eichborn / Frankfurt a. M. 2002 (4th edition 2007)
• "Worldpressphoto 2002" collective of authors, GFW Verlag 2002
• " Knock Signs - Art and Culture of the 80s in Germany" Book accompanying the double exhibition cracks in the wall and mad rooms in the Museum Folkwang Essen and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Verlag Faber & Faber Leipzig 2002
• "Obssesion" Gert Hof Eichborn Verlag 2003
• "Art in the GDR" Eugen Blume u. R. March u. a. Catalog for the exhibition in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, G + H Verlag Berlin / Bonn 2003
• “ Images d'un teritoire” (Corsica) authors and photographers collective, Albinana / CMP 2005
• "Leasing The Sky - The Greatest Light Monuments on Earth" Gert Hof Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2006
• "Quilted - Fashion Made in Mongolia" IFA Gallery / Jens Rötzsch, IFA Institute for Foreign Relations 2007
• "EAST - To Protocol / For the Record Photographs 1989" , Steidel Verlag 2009
• " The other Leipzig School - Photography in the GDR" , Kerber PhotoART- Kunsthalle Erfurt 2009
• "Leipzig. Photography since 1839" , Passage-Verlag Leipzig 2011
• "Mongolia" travel guide, Dumont Verlag 2011
• "Heimat Großsiedlung - 50 years Gropiusstadt " , Nicolai Verlag Berlin 2012
• "Closed Society - Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989" , Kerber Verlag 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Jens Rötzsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.jensroetzsch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Jens Rötzsch at Junghans-Art
2. ↑ The last decade . 1993, p. 86, ISBN 3-930054-03-5