Klaus Stemmler

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Klaus Stemmler (* in Pforzheim ) is a German graphic artist , photographer and publisher.

Life

Stemmler studied at the art college in Karlsruhe and went to Berlin in the mid-1960s. His lecturer Heinz Hajek-Halke finished teaching at the University of the Arts that year, after which Stemmler became a student of Helmut Lortz , with whom Stemmler kept in contact until his death. During his studies, Klaus Stemmler made graphics for exhibitions in the Reichstag and for The Porcupines .

During his time in Pforzheim, Klaus Stemmler published magazines. At the beginning of 1972 the first edition of TIP appeared in Berlin as a city newspaper in Germany. Every year the circulation doubled and from a length of 6 pages in the first edition the length increased to 300 pages every fortnight. At the same time, he and Gunter W. Rometsch founded the film art cinema “Emergency Exit”. Klaus Stemmler managed the publishing house until the mid-1990s, creating the television format tipTV with producer Dirk Beinhold , first on FAB and later on ORB . In the mid-1990s, the publishing house was taken over by Gruner + Jahr .

After social projects for student apartments in Neukölln, he founded the Klaus Stemmler Foundation in 2010, with which he would like to promote talent in photography and graphics and of which he is chairman.

Individual evidence

  1. Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. Homepage of the foundation