Martin Langer (photographer)

Martin Langer in Hamburg's pedestrian zone, 2018

Martin Langer (born March 9, 1956 in Göttingen ) is a German photographer .

Career

After completing school and military service, Langer first completed an apprenticeship as a radio and television technician before studying visual communication with a focus on photojournalism . During his time at university he was made aware of the subject area of ​​photo satire by the well-known Berlin artist and political graphic designer Ernst Volland and from then on he was encouraged and encouraged by his professors Heinemann and Boström . The result is Curious and Merciless. Photo satire today , a standard work on the subject.

Since 1984, Langer has also worked as a photographer on political and social issues for magazines, publishers and organizations such as Robin Wood and Greenpeace . In 1995 he received the Fuji Euro Press Photo Award for his photo documentation about the taking of the Brent Spar oil platform by the environmental organization Greenpeace.

Of his social-documentary reports, the black-and-white series about the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August 1992, photographed on behalf of Spiegel , received the most attention. The best-known picture of the report showed the unemployed Harald Ewert , dressed in the jersey of the German national soccer team with black, red and gold applications and an allegedly urine-stained sweatpants , who raised his right hand in the Hitler salute. Photography is a symbol of the "ugly German" and is one of the icons of post-war photography in Germany. It has been published hundreds of times and is in collections of u. a. the House of History in Bonn and the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

Langer is a member of FreeLens , an association of photo journalists. He received numerous prizes and awards for his satirical and funny pictures of everyday life.

Awards

• 1985: Special award at the 4th Triennial Friborg / Switzerland
• 1991: 1st prize of the public, Photo Festival Knokke-Heist / Belgium
• 1991: Kodak Young Talent Award
• 1995: Fuji Euro Press Photo Award
• 2002: 1st Prize Photo Symposium Documentary Photography Bad Herrenalb
• 2002: Prize of the Kulturwerk of the Verwertungs-Gesellschaft Bild-Kunst
• 2009: Prize of the Kulturwerk of the Verwertungs-Gesellschaft Bild-Kunst
• 2018: Prize of the Kulturwerk of the Verwertungs-Gesellschaft Bild-Kunst

Web links

• Official website
• The Ugly German - radio feature on Dradio Wissen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Online on Langphoto.de ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ What is Harald Ewert ashamed of? Der Tagesspiegel, January 6, 2002.

3. Hitler salute and wet pants, NDR documentary https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Hitlergruss-und-nasse-Hose,doku1332.html