Jochen Mellin
Jochen Mellin (born October 26, 1940 in Burgdorf in what will later be the Hanover region ; † September 2, 2009 ibid) was a German photojournalist and author .
Life
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Place and date still to be identified, photo: Jochen Mellin, image archive of the Hanover region
Jochen Mellin was born in Burgdorf, Lower Saxony , during the Second World War in 1940. His father gave him a Rollei camera that had been manufactured before the war and which Mellin used to document local events early on.
After graduating from high school, he trained with a photographer based there in Celle , after which he developed a passion for journalism.
From October 1961, Mellin initially worked for the Burgdorfer Kreisblatt newspaper , but in the following year, 1961, he switched as a reporter for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) daily newspaper published in Hanover . He published his first major article there on July 16, 1962 with a report on the Festival of Lights in Bodenwerder , which he illustrated with impressive photographs of his own.
From 1977 until his retirement, Mellin belonged to the Lower Saxony department of the HAZ, sharing an office with his colleague Klaus von der Brelie for almost a quarter of a century . He published his own articles and countless photographs on a wide variety of occasions.
In addition, Mellin was unselfishly committed to the interests of his professional colleagues in the German Association of Journalists (DJV) for many years . In addition, he was a member of the association “Colleagues Aid for Lower Saxony Journalists”, of which he was elected chairman in 1992 - a task that he carried out until his death.
After retreating into his private life in 2005, Mellin focused more on the local history of his hometown, published his studies in 2008 in the series Zeitgeschichtliche Hefte der Stadt Burgdorf and in the year of death 2009 in Burgdorfer Döneken from old and new times .
In his speech on the occasion of the posthumous 2012 to 2013 exhibition “Jochen Mellin: Photographer - Journalist - Human” with works by the deceased photojournalist in the KulturWerkStadt of the town, von der Brelie raised among other things Mellin's “fine sense for the subtle nuances in the creation of language as well as a expresses precise powers of observation when taking a photo and writing a text ”.
Image archive
For more than half a century, Jochen Mellin captured the people and their lives in the Hanover region with photographs, especially in Burgdorf. After his death, around 134,000 small-format and medium-format negatives from his estate ended up in the Hannover Region archive .
The Hanover region had the images digitized and has been making them available to the public since June 27, 2017 in "screen quality " and - if possible also with keywords - via the Hanover region's online image portal (see section Web Links ). Most of the photos are of a Creative Commons - License provided and may therefore each reference to the source, the photographer, the title and the license continue to be used as social media. Most of the pictures by Jochen Mellin are missing important information about the place, occasion and date of the picture as well as the names and functions of the people depicted. Here the picture archive is hoping for the participation of residents and contemporary witnesses : For this reason, interested parties can view photos with unidentified content in the "Search pictures" section and send appropriate information to the archive staff via a text field. This is what the Hanover Region points out in its widespread Regional Journal 3/2017 - supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 30, 2017.
Publications (selection)
- Wilhelm Winkel : History of the city of Neustadt am Rübenberge , with the collaboration of Dietrich Bohnsack et al. , with pictures by Adolf Köster and Jochen Mellin, Ed .: Kreisgruppe Neustadt d. Heimatbund Lower Saxony and the city of Neustadt a. Rbge .: Sicius, [1966]
- Old ruin becomes young again. Reconstruction of the Dominican Church in Osnabrück. Hanover, 1966
- From the native tribe. New verse for the song of Lower Saxony , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , issue 253 of October 28, 1988, p. 23
literature
- Simon Benne: The Riddles of the Past / The Regionsarchiv puts its historical photos online - and hopes for information from contemporary witnesses on the motifs , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 28, 2017, p. 19
Web links
- Jochen Mellin , photographs to be identified in the image archive of the Hanover region
- Jens Kamm: “Jochen Mellin: Photographer - Journalist - Human” / New exhibition commemorates the Burgdorf journalist on the marktspiegel-verlag.de website on December 6, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Frauke Bittner: On the person: Jochen Mellin , press release No. 288b / 2017 of the Hanover region of June 27, 2017
- ↑ Jens Kamm: "Jochen Mellin: Photographer - Journalist - Human" / New exhibition commemorates the Burgdorf journalist on the marktspiegel-verlag.de page of December 6, 2012, last accessed on June 28, 2017
- ↑ Simon Benne: Jochen Mellins Fotoschatz , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 28, 2017, p. 19
- ↑ a b Burkhard Wolters: “A declaration of love to Burgdorf”: Exhibition in the KulturWerkStadt pays tribute to Jochen Mellin's reporter life on the Altkreis Nachrichten / Nachrichten für Burgdorf, Lehrte and Sehnde website on December 16, 2012, last accessed on June 29, 2017
- ↑ a b Frauke Bittner: Image archive of the Hanover region goes online / Historical photos by Jochen Mellin and Gerhard Dierssen document a piece of regional contemporary history / Image portal thrives on the participation of the population , press release of the Hanover region of June 27, 2017
- ↑ Regions-Journal 3/2017 - supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 30, 2017, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mellin, Jochen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photojournalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 2009 |
| Place of death | Burgdorf |