Michael Friedel

Michael Friedel (born June 5, 1935 in Berlin ) is a German photographer .

life and work

As a 17-year-old, during his apprenticeship as a photo laboratory assistant and the subsequent commercial apprenticeship at AGFA in Munich, Friedel worked on his first free photo reports about Sophia Loren , Elvis Presley and Rome- Trastevere , for which he received the Photokina Prize in 1954 and 1956 was awarded and made him known. The next few decades took him, mainly for STERN , to the crisis areas in the Middle East , South America and the Soviet Union . He portrayed diplomats, celebrities, stars and youth in East and West. His photo reports at the beginning of the 1970s put the Maldives , Seychelles , Mauritius , Dominican Republic and Yucatán on the tourist map of the world. In 1971 Michael Friedel visited the first Goethe Institute in London and since then has photographed around 40 institutes in five continents. For a GEO book project he lived among indigenous peoples on five continents for two years, he traveled to Polynesia and the Xingu Indian reservations in Brazil . In 60 years Michael Friedel has visited over 100 countries. The topics were the last indigenous peoples, the survival of these unique cultures, the long-term goals of tourism, especially the island worlds, the islands between paradise and hell. Friedel lives in a farmhouse south of Munich. Here he also manages his archive, from whose copyright royalties he lives today.

Main topics

Primitive peoples, development aid, islands of the world, tourism, dream destinations, homo-tourism, ethnobotany, diving, underwater tourism, aquaculture, dolphins, youth in Eastern Europe, German social and cultural policy, Goethe-Instituts, celebrities from the 1960s and 1970s, volcanoes

Awards - prizes

• Photokina Prize, Cologne 1954 and 1956
• Mexico - Lente de Plata 1999
• Maldives - Presidental Tourism Award 1982; 1992 and 2003

Illustrated books

• South Sea Islands: Pacific - Indian Ocean. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7991-6299-2 .
• Caribbean Islands: Columbus, Cuba, Carneval. Meyster, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7057-4205-1 .
• Lost people: encounters with peoples who will no longer exist tomorrow. GEO / Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 978-3-570-04742-2 .
  2nd edition 1991 with modified first title: Primitive peoples: ...
• Islands between paradise and hell: South Seas, Pacific, Indian Ocean. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-7991-6299-9 .
• Maldives. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-455-08295-1 .
• Rio de Janeiro. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-455-08306-4 .
• Cyclades. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-455-08299-9 .
• Capri. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 978-3-455-08405-4 .
• Reports from the Garden of Eden: From the origin of ecological knowledge. Ravensburger Verlag, Ravensburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-473-46163-9 .
• Maldives. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1992, ISBN 978-3-929489-51-4 .
• Seychelles. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1993, ISBN 978-3-929489-04-0 .
• Traveling with the camera: photo tips for globetrotters. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1993, ISBN 978-3-929489-08-8 .
• Bali. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1994, ISBN 978-3-929489-13-2 .
• Mauritius. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1995, ISBN 978-3-929489-09-5 .
• Dominican Republic. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1996, ISBN 978-3-929489-17-0 .
• Island happiness: longing for the lost paradise. Herder, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-451-26697-3 .
• Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 1999, ISBN 978-3-929489-24-8 .
• Pictures of silence: contemplative black and white impressions from the North Sea coast. Soltau-Kurier, Norden 2000, ISBN 978-3-928327-59-6 .
• Sail Away - Michael Friedel photographs the Star Clippers . Deutscher-Sport-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-937630-06-9 .
• Seychelles - the best from Michael Friedel. MM Photodrucke, Steingau 2007, ISBN 978-3-929489-46-0 .
• Michael Friedel - Photographs 1950–1990. MM Photodrucke, Dietramszell 2018, ISBN 978-3-929489-56-9 .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1967 Youth in East and West, Studio DuMont Cologne
• 1968 Museum Landesbildstelle Hamburg
• 1975 Islands of the World: 11 exhibitions for KODAK
• 1982, 1992, 2003 and 2012 Maldives, Male-City
• 1988 Goethe-Institut Munich, islands between paradise and hell
• 1979 Galerie 79, Munich, traveling exhibition Photosafari - Homo Touristicus, tourists with the camera chasing motifs. Exotics, sensations and breast safari
• 1987 Uni. Bayreuth
• 1989 Studio DuMont Cologne
• 1989 Uni. Dortmund
• 1990 Image Hong Kong
• 1991 Congress Hall Berlin
• 1991 Humboldt University. Berlin
• 1991 Perpignan Festival France
• 1992 ITB Berlin
• 1992 Uni. Salzburg
• 1992 Uni. Kaiserslautern
• 1992 Theaterhaus Stuttgart
• 1992 Tourism trade fair in Montreux, Switzerland
• 1993 Third World store in Hagen
• 1993 Holiday fair St. Gallen, Switzerland
• 1993 VHS Hattingen
• 1993 VHS Öhringen
• 1993 Association of Publishers and Bookstores Stuttgart
• 1994 Pro Asylum Hannover
• 1994 VHS Stuttgart
• 1994 Gem. Wardenburg
• 1995 Bread for the World in Leinfelden / Echterdingen
• 1995 VHS Esslingen
• 1995 State Trade Office Karlsruhe
• 2018/2019 Leica Gallery Frankfurt

Collective exhibitions

• 1963 World Exhibition of Photography
• 1968 World Exhibition of Photography
• 1973 World Exhibition of Photography
• 1977 World Exhibition of Photography
• 1977 Family of Children
• 1985 Photography in German magazines 1946–1984, Ute Eskildsen
• 1988 40 years of current affairs, 40 years of photojournalism - exhibition by STERN magazine
• 1998 50 years of STERN
• 2016/2017 Willy Fleckhaus - Design, Revolte, Rainbow: Museum for Applied Arts Cologne; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg.

Web links

• Website of the photographer's own publishing house
• Michael Friedel in an interview at Artusiast

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 60 years of the Goethe-Institut - Stories - Goethe-Institut. In: www.goethe.de. Retrieved November 25, 2016 . 
2. ↑ My bizarre research . In: geo . ( geo.de [accessed on November 26, 2016]).
3. ↑ Willy Fleckhaus · FINE GERMAN DESIGN . In: FINE GERMAN DESIGN . ( online [accessed November 26, 2016]). Willy Fleckhaus · FINE GERMAN DESIGN ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 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.