Peter Reichelt

Peter Alexander Reichelt (born May 11, 1958 in Mannheim ) is a German author , publicist , filmmaker , exhibition maker and producer as well as artist agent and photographer.

Life

In 1973 Reichelt began training as a concert organizer at the "Hoffmeister Concert and Guest Performance Management" in Mannheim. There he was responsible for the implementation of around 100 appearances and tours for the guest performance management, including Herbert von Karajan , Maria Callas , Otto Waalkes , Roy Black , Marika Rökk , Caterina Valente , Gilbert Bécaud and Udo Jürgens' comeback tour in 1974. Jürgens He also supervised his appearance in front of Princess Gracia Patricia in the summer of 1975 in Monaco. In April 1976 Reichelt had first contact with Albert Speer in Heidelberg and researched for several years on behalf of Speer for the book "Der Sklavenstaat".

In 1978, Reichelt and Carsten Graab founded the first video retail chain in Europe, Videoland, with branches in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Mannheim. After graduation on the Kurpfalz-Gymnasium in Mannheim in 1979, studied Reichelt 1979-1986 among others at the University of Mannheim Jura . Parallel to his studies, he began to produce advertising and music video clips from 1980 with his previously founded film production company Videomount for Ted Herold .

In 1985 he founded the exhibition organization company Asia Team Communications in Hong Kong and Germany, organized the first Chinese media communications fair China Mediacom in Beijing and in 1987 the “Festival of Culture” in Managua Nicaragua . In 1986, together with the actor Dietmar Schönherr , he founded the aid organization Stiftung Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe in Mannheim, which is mainly active in Nicaragua. In 1987 he founded the Casa de los Tres Mundos cultural foundation in Granada, Nicaragua, with the Minister of Culture of Nicaragua Ernesto Cardenal and Dietmar Schönherr, and organized performances by Ute Lemper and Wolfgang Niedecken in Nicaragua.

He later developed television entertainment programs for ARD and ORF , did journalistic contributions and photo work for Stern , SPIEGEL , FAZ , DPA and Action Press . In 1986 a long-term collaboration with the Viennese artist Gottfried Helnwein followed , for whom he organized his multi-media project “Faces - Idols of the 20th Century” in 1989.

In 1990 and 1991, together with Dietmar Schönherr, Désirée Nosbusch , Manfred Deix , Robert Hochner , Kuno Knöbl and Gottfried Helnwein, he developed the ORF Saturday evening show “Kinderspiel”. In 1990 Reichelt began as a co-author and project planner with the ORF production of the documentary film portrait “Dietmar Schönherr - The Man from Tyrol”, which was broadcast on ORF in May 1991 on the occasion of Schönherr's 65th birthday. In 1991 Reichelt is the responsible producer of the ARD / HR talk shows "Zeil um Zehn" and "Holgers Waschsalon".

Reichelt has been working as an agent and personal advisor for Carl Barks , Leni Riefenstahl , Dietmar Schönherr , Miles Davis , Gottfried Helnwein and Linda McCartney since 1986 .

Reichelt and Brockmann exhibition production

Together with the photographer Ina Brockmann (* 1965 in Rüsselsheim), Reichelt founded the Reichelt und Brockmann exhibition production in Mannheim in 1992 . Around 3 million visitors came to their exhibitions at around 100 locations. This makes you one of the leading producers and brokers of photo art exhibitions.

Together with the New York photographer Bert Stern, they produced their first exhibition in 1992, the photo exhibition “Marilyn Monroe - The Last Sitting”, which was then shown in 70 museums around the world. In 1994 the exhibition "Linda McCartney - The 60s" took place in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel. With the US artist Kenny Scharf, the exhibition and production of one of his “Scharf Closets”, “Closet Number 11”, came about in Essen in 1993 in Germany. Together with Scharf, they produced a short portrait film about it. After the exhibition ended, the “Closet” disappeared from the gallery under unexplained circumstances.

In 1993 Reichelt and Brockmann became the agents of Disney artist Carl Barks, whom they met in Grants Pass, Oregon. They accompanied the 95-year-old Barks during his 1994 European tour to Copenhagen, Paris and Stuttgart. Together with Carl Barks and in 1995 a Disney exhibition entitled “Ente Gut, Alles Gut - Barks, Taliaferro and Gottfredson - Disney's great illustrators” was realized in Germany. Reichelt and Brockmann have published art and socially critical books in their publisher of the same name, including Helnwein and Scientology, the book was the cover story in STERN on June 12, 1997 and in 1994 the book about the life of Carl Barks - The Biography and Casa de los Tres Mundos / The "House of Three Worlds": A cultural innovation by Dietmar Schönherr and Ernesto Cardenal - Granada / Nicaragua.

Since 1994 they have been the exhibition agents for the photographer Linda McCartney in Europe. Since her death, you have been working with Paul McCartney on presenting the photographic work in museums. In 1994 the Kunsthalle zu Kiel presented the world premiere of the museum photo exhibition "Linda McCartney - The 60s".

Peter Reichelt and Ina Brockmann were Leni Riefenstahl's exhibition agents. In 2004, one year after her death, the exhibition “Riefenstahl” produced and curated by Reichelt and Brockmann in the Ernst-Barlach-Museum Wedel near Hamburg attempted to dispel the “Leni Riefenstahl myth”. It is the first exhibition not controlled and authorized by Leni Riefenstahl. Since then, the Olympic photographs known as "Riefenstahl works" have been assigned to the photographers who took the pictures. Riefenstahl exhibitions were previously held in Kuopio (Finland, 1996), Milan (1996) and Rome (1997) with the consent and cooperation of the artist. Both accompanied Riefenstahl on their trips to Finland and Italy. These were the first museum exhibitions on the artistic work of Leni Riefenstahl in Europe.

In June 2001, the life of the actor Klaus Kinski was honored for the first time in the exhibition "I am the way I am" in the Theatermuseum Munich and has since been in Germany and Austria, including the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum in Mannheim, in the Stadtmuseum Berlin, to be seen in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, the Städtische Galerie Klagenfurt and the Ludwig Museum Koblenz .

In July 2006, together with the industrial heir Gunter Sachs, the idea of a comprehensive Sachs retrospective on the occasion of his 75th birthday was born. Reichelt and Brockmann then arranged the Sachs exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. From March to June 2008, the museum made a special exhibition area of 2200 square meters available.

In addition, Peter Reichelt curated and produced museum exhibitions and exhibitions together with Ina Brockmann. a. about Walt Disney, Carl Barks, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Liz Taylor, Leni Riefenstahl, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Alexander, Sophie Marceau, Gottfried Helnwein, Grace Kelly, Frank Hurley, Ernest Shackleton, Miles Davis and Marlene Dietrich. On May 11, 2011, the world's first museum photo exhibition about Michael Jackson, curated and produced by Peter Reichelt, opened at the Museum Schmuckwelten Pforzheim.

Litigation with the Kinski heirs

In order to advertise an exhibition about the life of Klaus Kinski , Reichelt and Brockmann had reserved the domain “kinski-klaus.de”. The heirs saw this as a prohibited interference with their right to utilize the monetary components of the deceased's personal rights. On October 5, 2006, a dispute between Reichelt and Brockmann and the heirs of Klaus Kinski over a domain with the same name was ended before the Federal Court of Justice . The BGH justified the connection of the domain and dismissed the action for "release" from kinski-klaus.de by Kinski's divorced wife Minhoi and his son Nikolai Kinski , as the heirs' right to monetary realization of the rights no later than ten years after Death of celebrity end. The judges drew a comparison with the right to one's own picture according to § 22 KunstUrhG , according to which photos of deceased ten years after their death may be published without the consent of relatives. In addition, the BGH made it clear that in the fight for domains of deceased celebrities, freedom of expression and the freedom of art must always be taken into account. The right of the heirs should not lead to “controlling or even directing the public debate about the person's life and work”.

Documentaries

Reichelt and Brockmann worked for ARD , 3sat , ABC “20/20” with Barbara Walters “Inside the Church of Scientology” and ORF as a documentary filmmaker. The 1999/2000 ARD documentary about the Scientology penal camps "Disappeared in Happy Valley" found 10 million viewers. While filming in front of the secret world headquarters of Scientologists "Gold" and the Scientology prison camp "Happy Valley" near Hemet, California, the filmmakers were obstructed and shadowed. After the film was broadcast on ARD, Scientology started a smear campaign. At the place of residence of the authors in Mannheim, Scientology had a magazine called "Freiheit" distributed in 50,000 copies in spring 2000 in order to damage its reputation.

On February 7, 2000, the ARD magazine Report Mainz showed the Reichelt and Brockmann article about the painter and Scientologist Gottfried Helnwein . The US cameraman Mark Bunker, who later received a Grammy and who was filming Kassel and Reichelt on behalf of the SWR TV reporter team, was armed with a hammer in front of Helnwein's house together with Kassel and Reichelt during the filming in Clearwater / Florida Scientologists attacked.

First photo exhibition with photographs by Peter Reichelt

Theater Museum Hannover - "Stars shooter" 2010

Exhibition productions

Bert Stern - Marilyn Monroe - The Last Sitting 1962
Linda McCartney - "Sixties" - Exhibition / The 60s
Linda McCartney - "Roadworks" and "Sun Prints"
Klaus Kinski - I am the way I am
Walt Disney's Great Men: Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro - Duck Good - All Good
Frank Sinatra “This is Sinatra!” By Bob Willoughby
Audrey Hepburn - by Bob Willoughby
Liz Taylor - by Bob Willoughby
Leni Riefenstahl - The exhibition
Gottfried Helnwein - The exhibition
Grace Kelly - The Exhibition / Philippe Halsman / Milton Greene
Frank Hurley - Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
Miles Davis - The Exhibition / The Paintings by Miles Davis / Photos by Peter Reichelt
Marlene Dietrich - The exhibition - with photographs by Milton H. Greene
Milton Greene - Marilyn Monroe
Michael Jackson - "Welcome to my World" - the exhibition - with photographs by Jonathan Exley a. a.
Sophie Marceau - The Exhibition
Romy Schneider - The Exhibition
Billy Wilder - The Exhibition
James Bond - "50 Years of James Bond" - The exhibition
Brigitte Bardot - The exhibition
Peter Alexander - The Exhibition

Works (selection)

1985 - "Make a wish" with Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach - from the beginning to the end. A documentation, ISBN 3-923801-02-5

1985 - Local politics in 2nd level. Local council, district council, district councilor, district council and district committee members, ISBN 3-923801-00-9

1986 - Albert Speer. The general building inspector of Berlin. The implementing agency - renting out, acquiring housing and treating Jews in Berlin - a chronicle, ISBN 3-923801-01-7

1987 - Dietmar Schönherr and the Casa de los Tres Mundos / The "House of Three Worlds". A cultural innovation - Granada / Nicaragua, ISBN 3-923801-03-3

1988 - Children in Fire - Nicaragua 1988 Dietmar Schönherr, ISBN 3-923801-17-3

1994 - Michael Barrier / Peter Reichelt (editing and translation into German): Carl Barks. The biography, ISBN 3-923801-99-8

1996 - Leni Riefenstahl, exhibition catalog for the first European museum exhibition tour, ISBN 3-923801-92-0

1997 - Helnwein and Scientology. Lie and betrayal. An organization and its secret service, ISBN 3-923801-93-9

2000 - Helnwein and Scientology. Lies and Treason. An Organization and its Secret Service - full English version,

2001 - Bert Stern - Marilyn Monroe 1962, ISBN 3-923801-92-0

2003 - Drawn Walt Disney? - Barks, Taliaferro, Gottfredson - Three Fathers for Donald and Mickey, ISBN 3-923801-93-9

2003 - Klaus Kinski - "I am the way I am", ISBN 3-423-30840-0

2012 - Leni Riefenstahl - “Reality doesn't interest me”, ISBN 3-923801-70-X

2012 - Dietmar Schönherr - “From the fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship to make a wish”, ISBN 3-923801-60-2

2012 - "1,2,3 ... Billy Wilder. Photographs “- A Life, ISBN 3-923801-62-9

2013 - “Drawn Walt Disney? - Donald, Micky and their fathers ”- The Biography, ISBN 3-923801-58-0

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ BGH, Az. I ZR 277/03
↑ Hammer Attack , Mark Bunker

personal data
SURNAME	Reichelt, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reichelt, Peter Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, publicist, filmmaker, exhibition maker and producer as well as artist agent and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim

[1] BGH, Az. I ZR 277/03

[2] Hammer Attack , Mark Bunker