Karl Ludwig Haenchen

Karl Ludwig Haenchen (born September 11, 1911 in Berlin ; † March 5, 2003 in Dolcedo-Castellazzo , Province of Imperia , Italy) was a German photographer , television producer, and hit writer and composer.

Haenchen first studied history and sport for the teaching profession, but then turned to photography, in which he was self-taught . Around 1930 he opened a photo studio in Berlin, where he was considered the most important fashion photographer in the 1930s and 1940s. At times he ran three studios there at the same time. From 1932, his photos appeared in fashion magazines such as Elegante Welt (from 1935), Die Dame (1936–1942), die neue linie (1936–1939), Hella (1936–1942) and NS-Frauen-Warte (1936–1944) . An early color photograph appeared as the cover of Die Dame in 1942 . In Haenchen's work, the models often appear from below, in keeping with the style of the time.

After the end of the war, Haenchen initially mainly took portraits, and later again fashion and press photos for film and women (from 1948), Inspiration , Die Zeitschrift für die Dame (from 1950) and the illustrated Stern (1950–1955). He also worked as a star photographer for the film company Sascha / Tobis . In 1954 he moved to Hamburg . In 1966 he was a television producer, and he also wrote and composed a number of hits. From 1970 he stopped working as a photographer.

Karl-Ludwig Haenchen was a nephew of the theologian Ernst Haenchen . Since 1948 he was with Ilse Haenchen, geb. Oeberg (1918 - 2019) married and had 2 sons.

Compositions

• Don't turn around 1961 (with Bobby Schmidt )
• Paris is worth a trip 1961 (with Jupp Schmitz )
• The Wheel of Fortune 1962 (from the film The Sweet Life of Count Bobby , Text: Kurt Feltz )

literature

• FC Gundlach , Uli Richter : Berlin en vogue. Berlin fashion in photography. Wasmuth-Verlag, Tübingen & Berlin 1993.
• Johannes Christoph Moderegger: Fashion Photography in Germany 1929-1955. Fashion photography in the focus of the Third Reich. BoD, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0731-9 .
• Ulrich Pohlmann, Simone Förster (ed.): The elegance of the dictatorship. Fashion photographs in German magazines 1936–1943. Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in the Münchner Stadtmuseum November 9, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Wolf & Sohn, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-934609-03-1 , p. 68.
• Haenchen, Karl Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 271.

Web links

• Karl Ludwig Haenchen , Photographers Wiki