Joseph Schorer
Joseph Schorer (born in Mindelheim in 1894 ; died in Hamburg in 1946 ) was a German photographer.
Life
Joseph Schorer attended the Mindelheim vocational training school from 1907 to 1910 and was an apprentice to the photographer Anton Krumm from 1908 to 1911. He then worked in Berlin and from 1913 in Hamburg. In the First World War he was a soldier and used on the Western Front. From 1922 he lived in Hamburg again. Schorer worked as a freelance press photographer for the newspapers Hamburger Tageblatt , Hamburger Anzeiger , Hamburger Fremdblatt and also for newspapers in Berlin.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he lost orders because he refused to join the NSDAP . After the end of the Second World War, he opened a photo shop in Hamburg. He was charged with trading in Wehrmacht cameras and was sentenced to prison by a British military tribunal. Schorer died shortly after his release from prison.
As a press photographer, Schorer photographed current affairs in Hamburg from the 1920s to the 1940s. He also created pictures of cultural events, of the 1936 Olympic Games and portraits of contemporary personalities.
Photographs
- Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (ed.): When Hamburg lived under the Nazis. 152 rediscovered photos by a contemporary witness . Hamburg / Zurich 1986 ISBN 3-89136-087-8
- Jan Zimmermann (Ed.): Hamburg - War and Post-War: Photographs 1939–1949 . Hamburg: Junius, 2017 ISBN 978-3-88506-802-0
Web links
- Jonathan Mahler: Joseph Schorer , at the German Historical Museum
- Joseph Schorer , at Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schorer, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mindelheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |