Kurt Schaarschuch

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Kurt Schaarschuch (born May 21, 1905 in Pieschen ; † September 23, 1955 ) was a German photographer . He was best known for documenting the destruction of Dresden in World War II .

Life and works

Kurt Schaarschuch was mainly active in Dresden. His publication Bild Dokument Dresden 1933–1945 was first published in 1945 and numerous copies were sold by the end of 1946. A new edition failed, however, and Schaarschuch's memory book was replaced in 1950 by Richard Peters Dresden - a camera complains, as it were. Wolfgang Hesse emphasized the fundamental differences between the two works: “While Kurt Schaarschuch [...] complains about the loss of the old city in conventional juxtapositions of before and now, Richard Peter [...] stages this downfall as the basis of the new. Although he was excluded from the SED in 1949, Peter conceived his book as an argument for the politics of the Cold War - entirely on the party line . The two books also stand against each other photographically: Schaarschuch in the conventions of homeland security imagery of the interwar period, Peter in those of worker and press photography of the late 1920s and early 1930s ”. Sylvia Ziegner also emphasized the propaganda orientation of Peter's illustrated book in her dissertation on the rubble photographs.

In Schaarschuch's book, views of Dresden before and after the destruction were juxtaposed on double pages without comment. It was the first publication of this kind about Dresden. Ludolf Kuchenbuch stated in 2009: "When Glasenapp compares the illustrated books by Hermann Claasen , Richard Peters and Kurt Schaarschuch on the rubble landscapes [...], fine nuances manifest themselves [...]: With the exception of Kurt Schaarschuch's" Bilddokument Dresden [ ...] ", which established an explicit causality between the destruction of cities and National Socialism, dominated a decided decoupling of the rubble desert from the Nazi past."

About the creation of the pictures for the memorial tape Schaarschuch, his daughter later told that he had to hide his camera constantly "from the Russian occupiers".

Schaarschuch fled to the West in 1952, whereupon his pictures in Dresden were given the blocking notice “Republic refugee” and remained undeveloped for decades.

Schaarschuch was the father of the photographer Helga Teichmann . His estate is in the Dresden City Museum .

Publications

  • Meuselwitz in Thuringia , Meuselwitz 1940
  • Photo document Dresden 1933–1945 , Dresden 1945
  • Young and old in the zoo , with Hans Petzsch , Dresden 1951

literature

  • Friedrich Reichert: Photo Schaarschuch Dresden. Photo report 1927 to 1955, DZA Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Altenburg 1996, ISBN 3-9804823-6-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Hesse, The luckless angel , May 15, 2005 at www.bdwi.de
  2. ↑ Risen from the ruins ... on photo.dresden.de
  3. ^ Sylvia Ziegner, The Dresden illustrated book - a camera accuses Richard Peter senior. Part of the culture of remembrance in Dresden , Diss. Marburg 2010, p. 7 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Gabriela B. Christmann: Dresden's shine, the pride of Dresden. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-09814-0 , p. 121 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  5. ^ Ludolf Kuchenbuch: Topic: Economic anthropology. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20344-3 , p. 289 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. ↑ a b Helga Schubert, Geraer Intermezzo has museum value today , June 10, 2005 in Neues Gera ( online )
  7. ↑ Author's text on www.exlibris.ch
  8. ^ Andreas Krase, Technical Collections Dresden at www.smb.museum
personal data
SURNAME Schaarschuch, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieschen
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1955