Lothar C. Poll

Lothar C. Poll (born December 25, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer , publicist and publisher , art lover and culture patron.

life and work

Poll grew up in Werder (Havel) near Potsdam and in Aachen and graduated from high school there. He studied law and political science at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Bonn . 1961 first state examination in law in Cologne, the second (major) state examination in 1965 in Berlin. From 1964 to 1968 he was a cultural correspondent for various newspapers and radio stations. Poll has lived in Berlin since 1963 and has been married to Eva Poll ever since. The two have a daughter. Poll is a nephew of the painter Hermann Poll .

In 1965 Poll founded his own law firm in Berlin (focus on copyright, competition and press law), which has been run in a partnership since July 2009. In 1966 Poll completed an editorial traineeship at Tagesspiegel , from 1967 to 1983 he was the legal advisor of this newspaper. In 1977, Poll became a founding partner in the Tagesspiegel press foundation, and from 1984 to 1993 he was the publisher and editor of the Tagesspiegel and managing director of the publishing group.

From 1988 to 1994, Poll had a teaching position at the Journalism Institute and the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . Since 1995 he has been the managing director of InfoPress Information through Presse Verlagsgesellschaft in Berlin, a book publisher and agency. Poll is a member of the advisory board of the Berlin association KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI eV - association for contacts with countries of the former Soviet Union .

Arts and Culture

From 1966 to 1968, Poll was the managing director of the artists' cooperative Großgörschen 35 , whose activities were continued by the Poll gallery after its dissolution in 1968 . Between 1985 and 2005 he initiated several activities in the social and cultural area, such as the Franz Karl Maier Editorial Prize (1985) and the Wolfgang Staudte Prize (1990), the circle of friends of Habimah Berlin together with the then head of Berliner Festspiele Ulrich Eckhardt , from 1988 to 1994 he was chairman of the Friends of Villa Aurora in Los Angeles , from 1993 to 1998 chairman of the Friends and Supporters of the German Theater and the Kammerspiele, and 1996 to 2001 of the Friends of the Haus am Waldsee and 1996 to 2006 Second chairman of the support group for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and of the Board of Trustees of the public monument foundation In 1985 he brought about the establishment of the Poll Art Foundation , which advocates the promotion and research of figurative art in the 20th century and advocates that certain individual artistic positions of realism remain recognizable and accessible to the public, regardless of current fashions or developments in the market.

Publications (selection)

• Hermann Albert - Pictures and Drawings - Overview of works 1968–1978 , 2 vol., Berlin 1978, ISBN 978-3-931759-19-3
• Catalog raisonné Peter Sorge etchings, lithographs, hand drawings 1963–1979 , Berlin 1979, ISBN 978-3-931759-08-7
• Joachim Schmettau - One alphabet. Drawings 1967 to 1981 , Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3-931759-05-6
• Wolfgang Petrick - paintings and drawings 1979–1982 , texts by Gottfried Benn , Bertolt Brecht and Reinhard von der Marwitz, Berlin 1982
• Homage to Beckmann . Texts by Max Beckmann and Inken Nowald; Berlin 1984, ISBN 978-3-931759-10-0
• Positions of Realism - 1967–1972–1987 . Texts by Günter Grass , Uwe M. Schneede and Bernhard Schulz , Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-931759-15-5
• Scene Moscow. Four painters - four positions , Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-931759-12-4
• Gall is sweet, my love! - Press photography and critical realism , Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-936646-48-1
• Herbert Kaufmann - Principle Collage , Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-931759-01-8
• Securing evidence - between figuration and abstraction. Becky Sandstede, Hermann Kirchberger , Christel Poll , Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-931759-02-5
• Reading book by Heinz Ohff . Writing for the arts - art criticism, literature, features , Berlin 2007, new edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-931759-00-1
• Berlin Faces - Ursula Kelm, photographs 1987–2007 , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-931759-13-1
• Images of light and silence. Hermann Poll (1902–1990) . Work documentation, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931759-30-8
• In the light of the south - Christel Poll . With a foreword by Lothar C. Poll and texts by Gernot Thiele, Jupp Ernst , Gerhard Schön. InfoPress information by Presse Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-931759-36-0 .

swell

• "Who is who?", The German "Who is Who", founded by Walter Habel
• Rdh: Fast thinker. On the 75th birthday of the publicist Lothar C. Poll, in: Der Tagesspiegel , Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Web links

• Law firm Lothar C. Poll
• Article about Lothar C. Poll in the Tagesspiegel on December 25, 2012

Individual evidence

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