Josef Heinrich Darchinger

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Josef ( Jupp ) Heinrich Darchinger (born August 6, 1925 in Bonn ; † July 28, 2013 there ) was a German photojournalist .

Life

After elementary school Darchinger completed an agricultural apprenticeship . In 1942, after his 17th birthday, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service . A year later, during World War II, he was called up as a soldier for the Wehrmacht . In 1945 he was seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the French, from which he fled in 1947. He retrained as a photo laboratory technician and acquired self-taught knowledge as a photographer .

In 1948 he married his colleague Ruth in Bonn. In 1949 Darchinger bought his first camera, a Leica IIIc with three lenses. Three years later he began his career as a freelance photojournalist , initially for publications of the SPD and the trade unions. He joined the SPD in the same year. After a photo documentation of the funeral of her party chairman Kurt Schumacher , he worked with her for many years in photographic matters. In the mid-1960s, Darchinger became a photo correspondent for the weekly magazine Spiegel and the newspaper Die Zeit in the federal capital Bonn. As a result, he was part of the group of photographers traveling with the federal government on trips abroad. With the move of parliament and parts of the government to Berlin in the 1990s, Darchinger gradually withdrew from documenting political events.

Darchinger, who lived in his hometown Bonn, published several photo books about Bonn politicians and managers. A large part of his extensive private photo archive is now part of the Archive of Social Democracy (AdsD) of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . The inventory acquired at the end of October 2007 includes 1.6 million negatives , 60,000 positives and 30,000 slides . The archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom holds over a thousand photos of Darchinger's liberal politicians .

The Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn honored Darchinger in 1997 with an exhibition of 300 of his recordings. In an obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Darchinger's work was set in the tradition of the photojournalist Erich Salomon . Darchinger had mastered “the arranged portrait and the apparently random snapshot” as well as “capturing the unplanned gesture”. He was a "chronicler of the Bonn Republic ".

His sons Frank and Marc Darchinger are also photographers.

Works (selection)

  • Wirtschaftswunder , photo book with photos from the years 1952 to 1967, Taschen Verlag, June 2008, ISBN 978-3-8365-0019-7 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jupp Darchinger is dead. In: Spiegel Online , August 2, 2013.
  2. The thinking Sehmann . In: Forward. Issue 08/2005, page 14.
  3. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: The photo archive Jupp Darchinger in the AdsD
  4. Homepage of the Archives of Liberalism ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freiheit.org
  5. Klaus Wirtgen : The Eye of Bonn. In: Der Spiegel , 46/1997, accessed on July 28, 2010.
  6. ^ Lothar Müller: Chronicler of the Bonn Republic. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . No. 179, August 5, 2013, p. 11.
  7. Katja Iken: Colorful economic miracle. In: one day , May 27, 2008.