Joe Heydecker

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Joe J. Heydecker as a soldier in Warsaw (1941)

Joe J. Heydecker (born February 13, 1916 in Nuremberg ; † March 17, 1997 in Vienna ; complete: Joe Julius Isaak Philipp Heydecker ) was a German photographer , journalist and author . From 1960 he was also active as a publisher and bookseller in Brazil . He secretly took photos in the Warsaw ghetto and was one of the few German reporters at the Nuremberg trials .

Life

His father Julius Heydecker and his mother Marianne Rath were actors and later business people with a bourgeois-liberal outlook. Heydecker attended elementary school, then agricultural school for two years. After a few weeks of trial in a secondary school, he returned to elementary school and completed compulsory schooling there. From 1931 he did an apprenticeship as a photographer with Stefan Rosenbauer in Frankfurt / Main. In 1933 his first book Coup - Roman einer Revuestars appeared under the name Joe Heydecker in Lipsia-Verlag, Leipzig. Heydecker left Germany in July 1933 and went to Lucerne , Switzerland, after his parents had gone abroad - although they were neither Jewish nor politically endangered. He worked as a journalist for the Luzerner Tagblatt, among others . In autumn 1933 Heydecker moved to his parents' house in Prague and worked in the family company.

In 1938 he worked in Albin Kobé's photo studio in Vienna . After the annexation of Austria , Joe Heydecker was mustered out by the German authorities and called up on the first day of the war in 1939. First he took part in the French campaign as a pioneer . In 1941 he married the journalist Marianne Steber in Munich. Heydecker became a non-commissioned officer that year . He was transferred to Warsaw as a photo technician for a propaganda company . There he secretly took photos in the Warsaw Ghetto . The resulting photos were developed in secret, but were not published until 1981. His photos are evidence of the Nazi atrocities and the inhumane living conditions in the ghetto. In 1944 he was assigned to Panzerjägerabteilung 337. He photographed the ruins of Warsaw, empty of all people.

After the Second World War, Heydecker was a correspondent for various German newspapers, including the Kurier (Berlin) and a reporter for the Abendzeitung (Munich). He also reported on the Nuremberg war crimes trials and on the radio of what he had seen in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1947 he founded the "World State League". In 1950 he divorced Marianne Heydecker.

In 1954 he married Charlotte Angermeir. Heydecker became text editor for the Münchner Illustrierte . In 1955 he went to Stuttgart , where he became deputy editor-in-chief of Deutsche Illustrierte . His daughter Tita was born in Stuttgart in 1956 and became a painter.

Brazil

In 1960 Joe Heydecker emigrated to Brazil, where he and his wife Charlotte founded “Photo Studio 61” in São Paulo . In the following years he photographed reports for Die Zeit , Quick and the Stern and traveled almost all of South America . In 1967 the second daughter Maju was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome . In 1969, Joe Heydecker and his wife founded the mail order bookstore and the “Atlantis Livros” publishing house. He then published a weekly Brazilian bibliography for foreign universities under the title Livros Novos for nine years . In 1982, he underwent heart valve surgery in Houston. His wife Charlotte separated from him and returned to Germany. In 1985 he sold the company "Atlantis Livros", which still exists in São Paulo today.

Vienna

In 1986 he settled in Vienna with his partner Mara Kraus . Most recently he worked on his autobiography . In 1997 Joe Heydecker died of heart failure . He is buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (section E19, number 977). His estate is in the German Federal Archives . His photographic estate with over 25,000 negatives has been in the picture archive of the Austrian National Library since 2001 .

Books

  • Coup: The novel of a revue star , Leipzig: Lipsia-Verlag 1933
  • Fatos da Parapsicologia: Introdução Às Ciências Ocultas . Freitas Bastos, São Paulo 1984.
  • The sisters of Venus . Heyne, Munich 1994 (unabridged paperback edition).
  • The Nuremberg Trial . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995 (the revised new edition was published there in 2003).
  • The great war 1914–1918 . Ullstein, Berlin 1997 (unabridged edition).
  • My war . Mara Kraus, Vienna 2007 (as an e-book there 2010).
  • The Hitler picture . Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2008.
  • Mara Kraus (ed.): A man with qualities. Joe J. Heydecker's autobiographical notes. Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99028-828-3 .

Illustrated books

  • Where is your brother Abel . Atlantis Livros, São Paulo 1981.
  • The Warsaw Ghetto . dtv, Munich 1983 (new edition 1999).
  • Un soldat allemand in le Ghetto de Warsovie 1941 . Denoel, Paris 1986.
  • Seen in war . City Museum Munich (catalog), Munich 1988.
  • The Warsaw Ghetto . IB Tauris, London 1990.
  • The silence of the stones. Warsaw in November 1944 . Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1994.
  • Il guetto di Varsavia . La Giuntina, Florence 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of works in the picture archive
personal data
SURNAME Heydecker, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydecker, Joe Julius Isaak Philipp (full name); Heydecker, J. Joe; Heydebreck, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1997
Place of death Vienna