Lothar Rübelt

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Lothar Rübelt ( April 8, 1901 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary - August 4, 1990 in Reifnitz (municipality of Maria Wörth) ) was an Austrian sports and press photographer . In addition, Rübelt repeatedly worked as a still photographer. So u. a. in the famous ski film The White Rush (1930) and in the first Tyrolean post-war film Winter Melodie (1946).

life and work

A photo of the motorcyclist from 1929

Lothar Heinrich Maria Rübelt was the illegitimate son of Maria Rübelt (1873-1959), born in Reichshoffen , and the bank clerk and important art collector Dr. Heinrich Maurer von Cronegg (1863–1936). Rübelt was legitimized as a son by his father in 1933 and made a universal heir in 1935. The successful athlete, a short-distance runner member of the Austrian Olympic team in 1920, turned to photojournalism like his younger brother Ekkehard (t) (1902–1926). In 1926 (travel and shooting time July 18, 1926 to September 10, 1926) the two of them produced a successful Dolomite film Above the clouds on a motorcycle , premiered on January 31, 1927 in the Flottenkino in Vienna. Ekkehard (t), a successful athlete in the Vienna AC , suffered a motorcycle accident through no fault of his own on November 4, 1926 (in Kahlenberger Strasse ) and succumbed to his injuries a week later. After his brother's death, Lothar gave up his studies at the Vienna University of Technology and filming and continued to run the Photo-Rübelt agency on his own.

In 1936, the Nazi sympathizer photographed for the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung , the Summer Olympic Games . In 1938–39 he documented the Anschluss , the Sudeten crisis and the attack on Poland . The (opportunistic?) Entry into the NSDAP was denied to him because he could not clarify 1/16 of his families of origin.

After the end of the war, he turned back to sports reporting and reported on the Olympic Games from 1952 to 1964. He took photos for tourism advertising and gave photo lectures in Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland between 1952 and 1960. Rübelt received the Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts , Applied Art, for 1985.

reception

The contemporary historian Gerhard Jagschitz published a volume with photographs of the interwar period in Austria at the end of the 1970s. The art historian Walter Koschatzky (1921–2003) and the exhibition organizer Christian Michelides presented Rübelt's work in a special exhibition at the Albertina at the turn of 1985/86 . It was the first photography exhibition in this traditional graphic collection. A catalog was also published, The Secret of the Moment (see literature).

literature

  • Gerhard Jagschitz (text), Lothar Rübelt, Christian Brandstätter (design): Austria between the wars. Contemporary documents of a photography pioneer of the 20s and 30s. Molden, Vienna (among others) 1979, ISBN 3-217-00367-5 .
  • Christian Brandstätter (ed.), Bernd Lohse (foreword): Sport: the most important thing in the world. Documents from a pioneer of sports photography 1919–1939 . Molden, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-217-00990-8 .
  • Lothar Rübelt. The secret of the moment. 36 selected photographs and a text by Lothar Rübelt. One book in a series about people and years. M. Verlags- und VeranstaltungsgmbH, Vienna 1985, OBV .
  • Klaus Albrecht Schröder : Lothar Rübelt. Moments for photography . Falter, Vienna 1986, OBV .
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle:  Rübelt, Lothar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 204 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Christian Würth: From the right moment. About Lothar Rübelt. A contribution to the history of sports photography in Austria . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2005, OBV .
  • Timm Starl: Lexicon on Photography in Austria 1839 to 1945 . Albumverlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85164-150-2 , p. 411.
  • Hans Safrian , Hans Witek: And nobody was there. Documents of everyday anti-Semitism in Vienna 1938 . (Extended new edition). Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-630-8 .
  • Michaela Pfundner: Snatching its secret from the moment. The sports photo reporter Lothar Rübelt (1901–1990) . In: Matthias Marschik (Hrsg.), Rudolf Müllner (Hrsg.): “Are you happy that you stayed at home”. Mediatization of sport in Austria . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89533-716-1 , pp. 317–327.
  • Anton Holzer: Photography in Austria. History, developments, protagonists 1890–1955 . Metro, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99300-136-0 , p. 215.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the film. In:  The Interesting Sheet , No. 5/1927 (XLVI. Volume), February 3, 1927, p. 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dib
  2. ↑ Ekkehard Rübelt (...). In:  Illustrierte Sportblatt , No. 46/1926 (XXII. Year), November 13, 1926, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ios
  3. ↑ Motorcycling. (...) A highway scandal. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 319–320 / 1926 (LX. Year), November 20, 1926, p. 10, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst;
    Athletics. Serious accident by Ekkehard Rübelt. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 306–307 / 1926 (LX. Year), November 6, 1926, p. 8, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst
  4. ^ Walter Koschatzky: Fascination Art: Memories of an Art Historian. Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 2001, ISBN 3-205-99396-9 , p. 327.
personal data
SURNAME Rübelt, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sports and press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1990
Place of death Reifnitz (municipality of Maria Wörth)