Peter Brüchmann

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Peter Klaus Brüchmann (born April 5, 1932 in Berlin ; † October 17, 2016 there) was a German photographer . He portrayed stage, film and music stars from the 1950s to 1980s.

Life

Brüchmann grew up in Berlin. From 1949 to 1952 he did an apprenticeship with the fashion and portrait photographer Lotte Söhring. After a traineeship at the German Press Agency (dpa), he was employed there as a photographer from 1954. In 1956, Willy Fleckhaus brokered his first own picture contributions in the youth magazine Aufwärts of the Bund-Verlag . In 1958 he was briefly a photo reporter in the Berlin office of the women's magazine Constanze (magazine) , at the end of 1958 Brüchmann moved to Hamburg , where he continued to work for Constanze , as well as for Schöner Wohnen and Stern (magazine) . In 1963 he became an editorial photographer at Bild am Sonntag . In 1964 he moved to Munich , where he initially worked for the magazine Revue . From 1966 to 1967, Brüchmann was a photographer for Quick magazine . In 1961 he documented the Beatles' visit to the Top Ten Club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, a report that appeared in Quick in 1966 . Since 1968 he has been working as a freelance photographer for Quick, Freund, Playboy, Lui and above all for twen .

Brüchmann portrayed many stage, film, literature and music stars from the 1950s to 1980s, initially in black and white, later in color. In 1967 and 1968 numerous recordings were made at the Burda Verlag's Munich Film Ball; Well-known are the photographs taken there by Romy Schneider.

In the 1970s he lived in Singapore for a long time and took photos in Indonesia for the Apa-Guides travel guide (now Polyglott Travel Guide ) and the Indonesian airline Garuda .

The photo collection of the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin has 49 black and white and 38 color prints of his work from the 1950s to 1980s. Brüchmann lived in Berlin.

Exhibitions

  • 1995 twen - revision of a legend , Munich City Museum
  • 2008 Memories are often the most beautiful - photographic portraits by Romy Schneider , Opelvillen , Rüsselsheim (2009: Museum for Art and Commerce, Hamburg; 2010: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus)
  • 2013 work show in the MULTIPLE BOX gallery in Hamburg

literature

  • Heike Hartmann, Mariann Juha: People, Places, Times: Photography at the German Historical Museum , Edition Braus, Heidelberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89466-279-0 , p. 353
  • Dieter Vorsteher, Maike Steinkamp: The XX. Century; , (Ed. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin), Edition Braus in Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89904-152-1 , p. 260
  • Wolf Strache , Otto Steinert, Otto (Eds.), Das deutsche Lichtbild . Annual show 1969., DSB publishing house, Stuttgart
  • Michael Koetzle: Twen. Revision of a legend . City Museum Munich, 1995
  • Memory is often the most beautiful thing - photographic portraits by Romy Schneider . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2256-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Little Secrets of the Beatles , in Quick , No. 28, June 10, 1966
  2. ↑ issued in 2008 in the Opel villas in Rüsselsheim
personal data
SURNAME Brüchmann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brüchmann, Peter Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2016
Place of death Berlin