Milda Drüke
Milda Drüke (* 1949 in Höxter ) is a German writer and photographer . She is one of the representatives of the literary ethnological travel story.
Life
Growing up in Westphalia , after completing a commercial apprenticeship, she accepted the offer of a GI family living in Frankfurt am Main and followed them to the USA . It was Drüke's task to consolidate the children's knowledge of German. With the family of three (the father fought in Vietnam ) she toured North America in a VW bus. She lived in New York City , Ann Arbor and Woodstock and experienced the height of the hippie flower power movement .
In the early 1970s she became an English language translator, but she did not practice the profession. As a documentary in a picture agency, she dealt with photography for the first time . She switched to an advertising photographer and took over his studio management. In 1982 she founded Photo Management. Commissions from advertising agencies and photographers took her as a production manager to suitable locations for the photography of advertising photos around the world. She traveled to the capitals of Europe and the USA in order to shoot castings in advance, searched for locations and in this way came to take pictures herself. She later invested in a ship and a circumnavigation that began in 1986 and was completed in 1990. The magazine " Segeln " published the first photo reports.
The ELLE magazine asked for a report on the return to Germany. The journalist and book author Gundolf S. Freyermuth edited and encouraged Drüke to continue writing. She did an internship with marie claire and started writing.
Works
- The gift of the sea nomads (Among the aquatic people in Southeast Asia), 2002
- Ratu Pedanda (Journey into the Light - with a high priest in Bali), 2004
- Solomon Blue (Among the islanders of Papua New Guinea), 2007
- RED (People of Kathmandu), 2010
Web links
- Literature by and about Milda Drüke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Milda Drüke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.milda-drueke.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Press, Milda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Höxter |