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Leif Geiges (born September 9, 1915 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † April 5, 1990 in Staufen im Breisgau ) was a German photographer and reporter .

Life

Leif Geiges came from the Freiburg artist family Geiges as the son of Fritz Geiges and Ruth Geiges (née Kinberg). His grandfather was the mosaic and glass artist Fritz Geiges . The mathematician Hansjörg Geiges is his youngest son. The journalist Adrian Geiges is also a son of Geiges.

Act

Geiges attended the art academy in Berlin and studied a. a. Advertising psychology . From the 1930s he worked a. a. as a photographer and reporter for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung , for which he also traveled abroad (e.g. to Great Britain ). During the Second World War he was a "photo reporter" in a propaganda company of the Wehrmacht . During this time he was responsible for reports from the “liberated” Alsace , for example , but also for reports from other areas occupied by Germany. In 1939 he documented with the camera the resettlement of Baltic Germans from Riga to the German Reich, which had been declared as a "home fetch" . In the following war years he was one of the most important employees of the already mentioned, widely read Berliner Illustrirten Zeitung , which had been "Aryanized" after the Ullstein publishing family had been expelled and made into an organ of Nazi propaganda. One of his photographs, signed A Christmas Carol for Dad. Admission from a Berlin military hospital formed the front page of the Christmas Eve issue on December 24, 1942 - at the time of the final fall of the 6th German Army in the Battle of Stalingrad .

After the war, Geiges photographed for over thirty illustrated books, most of which dealt with his closer home. He had particular success in 1971 with the Freiburg band Geliebte alte Stadt .

From 1950 to 1971 Geiges was closely connected to the Freiburg Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (IGPP), which deals with the research of parapsychological phenomena, and documented all aspects of the institute's work with photographs. From around the mid-1950s he worked with his partners, the Black Forest director and cameraman Fritz Aly and the photographer Arnold Ernst Fanck . The estate of Leif Geiges has been in the House of History Baden-Württemberg since 1991 .

A path was named after him in Staufen.

Trivia

Leif Geiges photographed and tested the foldable Zaschka skis in the Black Forest , which the Freiburg inventor Engelbert Zaschka developed.

Books (selection)

  • Herbert Oertel (Ed.): Macedonia. Life and shape of a landscape. With many photos by Leif Geiges. Wiking-Verlag, Berlin 1940.
  • Freiburg in Breisgau. Text and compilation of the pictures by Eberhard Meckel . Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 1949.
  • Beloved old town. Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1971.
  • Walter Vetter (Ed.): Freiburg in ruins. Vol. 1: Illustrations by Leif Geiges. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1982.
  • Leif Geiges (photos), Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth , Elisabeth Schmid , Paul Gustav Schneider , Otto Wittmann : Der Hochrhein , Theiss, 1984. ISBN 3-8062-0239-7 .
  • The region: Landscape on the Upper Rhine. A cultural history in pictures. With an introduction by Hoimar von Ditfurth . Text by Hanns U. Christen . DuMont, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7701-2029-9 .
  • Claus Hofmann (ed.): T. Schneider & Sons 1847–1921: From village carpenter to court photographer. A chapter in early photographic history. Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989.

literature

  • A. Fischer: The "photographic reconstruction" of Spuk by Hans Bender and Leif Geiges. In: Moments - Contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 2 (2005), pp. 19-21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Leif Geiges ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 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. (PDF) The Citizens' Journal , January 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberwiehre-waldsee.de
  2. ↑ International Book Of Honor , American Biographical Institute, 1987, 419 pages, p. 132; Biography of Leif Geiges
  3. ↑ Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. Volume 51. No. 51 from December 24, 1942.
  4. ^ Occultes Freiburg - Christina Nickweiler: The photographer Leif Geiges (1915–1990) and the spook , accessed on September 26, 2019
  5. ^ Written information from the private archive of Arnold Ernst Fanck's son Matthias Fanck , email from April 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ Not according to my plans . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1950 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Violin, Leif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and reporter
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1990
Place of death Staufen im Breisgau