Klaus Leidorf

Klaus Leidorf (self-portrait)

High-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt near Feucht in 2001, taken by Klaus Leidorf

Green Belt , Thuringia and Bavaria, near Föritz-Mupperg, recorded by Klaus Leidorf

Klaus Leidorf (born June 5, 1956 in Bonn ) is a German aerial photograph archaeologist .

Life

From 1976 to 1983 he studied Protestant theology, religious history and prehistory and early history in Bonn and Marburg . From 1983 to 1985 he was a research assistant at the University of Marburg and from 1985 to 1989 a research assistant at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . As an aerial photograph archaeologist, he was able to ideally combine his interest in photography, which he already had at a young age, and his fascination with flying. In 1988 he acquired his flight license at the expense of the Society for Archeology in Bavaria and was trained by the aerial archaeological pioneer Otto Braasch in Landshut . In addition to aerial archaeological activities for the preservation of archaeological monuments in Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony and Lower Saxony, he also held teaching positions at the Universities of Marburg, Würzburg and the Ruhr University in Bochum .

In addition to courses on aerial archeology at the University of Würzburg in the 1997/98 winter semester and at the Philipps University in Marburg in the 1994/95 winter semester, he also led training projects in 1996 for Eastern European students in Hungary and in 2005 and 2007 for European students in Italy.

From 1983 to 1995 he played a key role in the development of the academic publishing house Marie Leidorf for publications in the field of archeology and is the founder and co-editor of the International Archeology series. Since 1989 he has been a freelance aerial photograph archaeologist with a focus on Bavaria.

In addition to the discovery of countless archaeological monuments, he is increasingly interested in documentation of aerial photographs. Since the fall of the Wall, he has exemplarily recorded the "Green Belt" on around 1400 km of the former inner-German border in the years 1996, 2003 and 2008 in countless recordings. A special “Green Belt Germany” stamp worth 155 cents was issued on March 2, 2020. The by Prof. Annette Le Fort u. The stamp designed by Prof. André Heers shows an aerial photo of Klaus Leidorf.

In addition to documentary recordings, countless artistic recordings were made from a perspective that most people do not see. From the air one has different views and insights, which give a new dimension to the well-known and the everyday through a clever choice of the image detail. They show structures of impressive and unusual aesthetics in the man-made landscape that cannot be seen from the ground. His photos are published in calendars and books.

Exhibitions

• 1994 VerLust in Landshut in the town hall cellar (participation)
• 1995 An island for time , Munich Airport (participation)
• 2001 Terra incognita , Landshut in the Rathauskeller (participation)
• 2002 ÜberSicht , Landau / Isar im Kastenhof (solo exhibition)
• 2007 Hotel Daheim , Starnberg (participation)
• 2009 in the artemix gallery, Landshut (solo exhibition)
• 2010 High above Munich in the EigenArt gallery , Munich Adult Education Center (solo exhibition)
• 2011 lifted off firmly - an archaeological expedition , Landshut in the municipal museum
• 2017 aerial photography. I see something that you don't see , Landshut, in the rooms of the Kunstverein (solo exhibition)
• 2018 VISUAL flight. Aerial photos by Klaus Leidorf , Deutsche Museum, Flugwerft Schleißheim (solo exhibition)
• 2019 bird's eye view . Aerial photos by Klaus Leidorf , Ismaning Castle Museum (solo exhibition)
• 2019 Urbanity - New Perspectives . Villa Heydeck, TU Ingolstadt (solo exhibition)
• 2019 Germany becomes one - The dismantling of the inner-German border . Museum in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin (participation)

Works

• with Peter Ettel : Castles in Bavaria. 7000 years of castle history in the air , Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8062-1364-X
• Rediscover Munich , Kiebitz Buch Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3980780007
• Overview: aerial photos by Klaus Leidorf , Marie Leidorf, Rahen 2002, ISBN 978-3-924734-77-0
• with Richard WB McCormack (texts): Hoch über München , Kulturverlag Starnberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941167-19-3
• High above Bavaria: Unique discoveries from a bird's eye view , Volk, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86222-047-2
• High above Bavaria 2: New amazing discoveries from a bird's eye view , Volk, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-062-5
• with Baoquan Song , Eckhard Heller: aerial archeology. Archaeological search for traces from the air , WBG Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3887-7
• with Baoquan Song : Fascination of aerial archeology: The world from a bird's eye view , WBG Theiss, Darmstadt 2020, ISBN 978-3-8062-4093-1

Wall calendar

• Starnberger See 2009 , Kulturverlag Starnberg, ISBN 978-3-941167-14-8
• High above Bavaria - monthly calendar 2013 , Volk, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-082-3

literature

• Markus Tremmel : Klaus Leidorf - the flying archaeologist. In: Bavarian Archeology. 3/2009, p. 23 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Leidorf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Aerial Photography
• Aerial Photography & Documentation
• Klaus Leidorf aerial photo documentation
• Aerial photo documentation

Press reports about Klaus Leidorf

• Archeology in Leidorf - insights in flight
• Take off and be amazed - the green belt from above
• Sky's the Limit - Klaus Leidorf offers a bird's eye view from his Cessna 172
• Klaus Leidorf takes aerial photos of new housing estates ...
• Click! Photographed by Klaus Leidorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leidorf.de
2. ↑ Süddeutsche.de
3. ↑ Bund-Naturschutz.de ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Federal Ministry of Finance, Stamps March 2020
5. ↑ Süddeutsche.de
6. ↑ Kunstverein Landshut.de
7. ↑ Deutsches Museum -Flugwerft Schleißheim ( Memento of the original dated August 31, 2018 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. 
8. ↑ Schloßmuseum Ismaning
9. ^ Villa Heydeck TU Ingolstadt
10. ↑ Kulturbrauerei Berlin