Otmar Herges

Otmar Herges (* 1944 in Saarbrücken ) is a German cameraman , master shoemaker , painter and author.

Life

Otmar Herges trained as an orthopedic shoemaker in the Herges shoe factory, his father's business, and worked for several years as a journeyman in his father's company. During this time he took the night school , the High School and studied from 1967 camera at the Vienna Film Academy . He graduated with a diploma and then worked as a camera assistant for ZDF in Hamburg. At the same time he published some short crime stories in magazines. When the jobs for freelance cameramen in Hamburg became rarer, he returned to Saarbrücken. He passed the master's examination as a shoemaker and took over his father's business in 1980. There he and his son Johannes introduced special custom-made products that sold well.

At first, as a hobby, he took up watercolor painting in the early 1980s , surprisingly won a prize from the city of Sarreguemines and had exhibitions in the Püttlinger Schlösschen and the Neuheisel gallery . He also made a name for himself as a photo artist and ran a gallery with his wife Karin for several years.

Herges Schuhmanufaktur has been run by Johannes Herges in the third generation since 2008. Otmar Herges withdrew from the business and in 2014 published the short crime collection Shit happens - Crime Stories in the Austrian Novum Verlag .

Works

• Shit happens . Neckenmarkt: Novum Pro 2014. ISBN 3-99038-212-8

literature

• Peter Schmidt: Creative from head to toe . In: Forum - The weekly magazine . No. 27 . FORUM Agency for Publishing, Saarbrücken June 27, 2014, p. 106-107 ( magazin-forum.de ).

Web links

• Otmar Herges at Novum-Verlag