Peter Leibing

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Peter Leibing (* 1941 in Hamburg , † 2. November 2008 in Oerel ) was a German photographer . His picture of the border guard Conrad Schumann jumping over the barbed wire is one of the best-known images of the Cold War as a media icon .

Life

In August 1961, the then 19-year-old Peter Leibing was sent to the sector border in Berlin by the Contipress picture agency to take pictures of the zone border. On August 15, he observed the GDR border guard Conrad Schumann when he decided to jump over the barbed wire barn into the French sector . Leibing pressed the shutter release of his Exakta camera (with a 200 mm telephoto lens) exactly in a tenth of a second when it was exactly above the barbed wire: no longer in the east, but not yet in the west. Accurately estimate the perfect moment had Leibing when jumping in Klein Flottbek learned that he had often photographed before.

As a police photographer and press photographer , he worked for the Hamburger Echo , the Hamburger Morgenpost and the Hamburger Abendblatt until his retirement.

Awards

The photo with the title Jump into Freedom by Conrad Schumann was awarded the “Best Photograph award” in 1961 by the Overseas Press Club .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The photographer Peter Leibing is dead: The photo that made history . Hamburger Abendblatt , November 4, 2008, accessed on October 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Alex Selwyn-Holmes: Posts Tagged 'Peter Leibing': Conrad Schumann defects . Iconic Photos on Wordpress , May 11, 2009, accessed October 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Irene Jung: 50 years of building the Berlin Wall: Peter Leibing - A Hamburg native writes photo history . Hamburger Abendblatt, August 18, 2011, accessed on October 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Jeanette Konrad: the photo: Conrad Schumann. Arte broadcast carom , episode 344, November 7, 2014, archived from the original on November 28, 2014 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  5. ^ Moritz Schwarz: The photographer Peter Leibing about the spectacular escape of the GDR border guard Conrad Schumann and the photo of his life . Young Freedom , August 10, 2001.
  6. ^ OPC Awards, 1961 Award Winners . Overseas Press Club, 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Leibing, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2008
Place of death Oerel