Ludwig Binder (photographer)

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Portrait photo of the photo journalist Ludwig Binder from around 1960, created by his wife Helga Binder. The photo belongs to the binder bundle of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany, EB no. 2012-11-0002.

Ludwig Binder (born November 22, 1928 in Nova Pazova , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , †  May 15, 1980 in West Berlin ) was a German photojournalist.

Life

Binder was born in the Danube Swabian community of Neu-Pasua near Belgrade as the son of a Protestant pastor. He attended high school in Sremski Karlovci (Karlowitz) and was already engaged in photography as a ten-year-old . He remained self-taught throughout his life .

Binder was called up in 1944 for " military training " and sent to a camp in the Reichenberg district (formerly Reichsgau Sudetenland ). Seriously ill, he was released in early 1945. After the Second World War he found his family in Greiz , Thuringia , where he graduated from high school in 1947 . Since the pastor's son was not allowed to study in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) , he enrolled in the legal seminar of the recently founded Free University of Berlin in 1948 and was de-registered in 1951. During his studies he was enthusiastic about jazz and was a member of a student band.

From the beginning of the 1960s Binder worked as a freelance photo journalist in West Berlin. He initially worked from his private apartment, founded an agency in 1967 and rented rooms on Wilhelmstrasse. The following year the company moved to Friedrichstrasse. He ran the studio together with his wife Helga and several employees. The later famous photographer Jim Rakete also worked there for a time in 1967/88.

From 1965 until his death, Binder worked as a freelancer, mainly for the tabloid Der Abend . Some of his pictures also appeared in the Berliner Zeitung , Springer-Verlag and the news magazine Der Spiegel .

Binder died at the age of 51 from a brain tumor . His grave is in the Steglitz cemetery . His wife Helga continued the studio together with two employees until 1995.

Work and whereabouts

In the 1960s, Binder dealt primarily with current political events in West Berlin. Particularly noteworthy are his recordings on the student movement in 1967/1968. Further series of images deal with the expansion of the Berlin Wall, the presence of the protective power USA in West Berlin and cultural life.

The core of the political archive - around 9,000 negatives and press prints - was acquired by the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany between 1999 and 2012 . From June 30, 2017 to March 11, 2018, the museum is showing an exhibition on the photographer's work entitled “Revolte! Photographs by Ludwig Binder 1967/68 ”. As part of the “Coding da Vinci” culture hackathon , parts of the image inventory were prepared and published under the title “Images of the Revolt”. The recordings are freely available under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE).

After 1968, Binder's work increasingly shifted to the music, culture and theater scene in West Berlin. He photographed concerts, exhibitions and stage plays, but was also active during the Berlin Press Ball , the Berlinale and the awarding of the Golden Camera . He portrayed directors, actors and music greats, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Heinz Erhardt , Miles Davis , Ella Fitzgerald , Benny Goodman and Chuck Berry .

Binder's extensive estate on the Berlin music scene has been in the holdings of the Bavarian Jazz Institute in Regensburg since 1999 . A large inventory, especially of theater photographs (negatives and prints), is part of the collections of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Binder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Eimermacher: Biography Ludwig Binder. , In: LeMO biographies, Lebendiges Museum Online. Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany , last visited on June 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ Handwritten curriculum vitae student file of the Free University of Berlin.
  3. ↑ The "photo journalist" Ludwig Binder first appeared in the branch and telephone books in 1962/63. See BFB Branch-Fernsprechbuch GmbH (Hrsg.): Branch-Fernsprechbuch zum official Fernsprechbuch 1 Berlin 1962/63; Berlin, 1962, p. 99. See Landespostdirektion Berlin (Hrsg.): Official telephone book 1 for the district of the Landespostdirektion Berlin 1962/63; Berlin, 1962, p. 66.
  4. ↑ BFB Branch-Fernsprechbuch GmbH (Ed.): Branch-telephone book to the official telephone book 1 Berlin 1967/68; Berlin, 1967, p. 104.
  5. ↑ BFB Branch-Fernsprechbuch GmbH (Ed.): Branch-telephone book to the official telephone book 1 Berlin 1968/69; Berlin, 1968, p. 115.
  6. ↑ a b 50 years of Jazzfest Berlin - photographs by Ludwig Binder 1968–1975. In: Berliner Festspiele (Ed.): Magazin Jazzfest Berlin 2014. Berlin, 2014, pp. 22–25. berlinerfestspiele.de , accessed May 9, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b enemy within. In: Der Spiegel . 33/1967, pp. 31–32, here p. 31.
  8. ↑ Stick free. In: Der Spiegel. 25/1967, pp. 41-46, here pp. 41-43.
  9. ↑ A selection of his photographs of the student revolt can be found under Images of the revolt .
  10. ↑ Tom Koltermann: Images of the Revolt - Studies are Opium. Status: December 19, 2016 (visual-history.de , accessed: May 16, 2017).
  11. ↑ Pictures of the revolt (accessed May 17, 2017).
  12. ↑ akg images: inventory search "Ludwig Binder" [online resource]; URL: http://www.akg-images.de/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2UMESQMOS0YZN (accessed May 8, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Nova Pazova
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1980
Place of death West Berlin