Joachim Giesel

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Joachim Giesel in autumn 2016

Joachim Giesel (born August 27, 1940 in Breslau ) is a German photographer .

Life

Joachim Giesel was born in Wroclaw in 1940 during the Second World War .

After his family had fled from Silesia , Giesel made his home in Hanover in 1951, where he trained as a photographer and passed his master's examination in 1966. In 1972 he founded the gallery spectrum with Peter Gauditz and Heinrich Riebesehl , which was integrated into the newly opened Sprengel Museum in 1979 and there formed the basis of the photography and media collection.

In 1980 Giesel graduated from the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences as a photo designer . From 1979 to 1999 Giesel worked as a theater photographer for the Hanover State Theater. He had lectureships at the Bielefeld and Dortmund universities of applied sciences , as well as at the Wuppertal University . Giesel has a studio in Hanover's zoo district . In 1985 Giesel received the Lower Saxony State Prize for the creative craft .

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The couple Lily Knake and Joachim Giesel in 2017 at the Hannover Historical Museum
Joachim Giesel during his tour of his exhibition Photographing Today - The Magic of Pictures in the Begin Tower in Hanover

Giesel's focus is on portrait photography. The photo books Photo Portraits from Hannover (1990) and 100 Hanover heads (2006) show portraits of famous personalities related to Hannover as Rudolf Augstein or Mousse T. The photo series Mad About Ilten (2003) portrays patients in psychiatry, in main work photographed Giesel unemployed. Between 1965 and 1989 Giesel regularly photographed motifs in the border area . Some of these photos were published in the magazine Stern in 1983 under the title Short before the pain limit . In September 2012, Norddeutscher Rundfunk showed a documentary in which Giesel and his friend, the star author Dieter Bub , drove across the former border and compared the now historical photos with the present.

Media coverage (selection)

  • NN : Restrained, but precise / Joachim Giesel has turned 75 - and looks back on 60 years as a photographer , in: Hallo Wochen , issue Hannover Nord from 29 August 2015, p. 5

Fonts

literature

  • oV : Joachim Giesel , in: 100 hannoversche Köpfe , ed. by Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photographs by Joachim Giesel, Niemeyer, Hameln 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , p. 207

Web links

Commons : Joachim Giesel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ top v .: Joachim Giesel , in: 100 hannoversche Köpf , ed. by Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photographs by Joachim Giesel, Niemeyer, Hameln 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , p. 207
  2. ↑ On the history of the gallery spectrum and the collection for photography and media on the Sprengel Museum website , accessed on May 19, 2019
  3. ↑ resume Giesels on the website a gallery
  4. ^ Address on Giesel's website
  5. ↑ Sabine Wilp (text): The winners since 1958 , in this: Lower Saxony State Prize for the Design Craft 2016 (PDF document), ed. in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport, Hanover: Handwerksform Hanover, 2016 [without page numbers]
  6. ↑ Description of the program on the website of the German Society for Photography eV
personal data
SURNAME Giesel, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw