Reinhard Görner

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Reinhard Görner (* 1950 in Leipzig ) is a German architectural photographer . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Reinhard Görner grew up as the younger brother of Lutz Görner in the Allgäu . He took a photography course at school and toyed with the idea of ​​becoming an art photographer. After graduating from high school, he began to study theater studies, philosophy, sinology, American and German studies in Munich . There he belonged to the environment of the underground group Siloah . In 1970 he moved to West Berlin with his cousin to continue studying . Inspired by the New Age movement , he began there in the winter of 1971 to translate Carlos Castaneda's third book Reise nach Ixtlan into German. He then left the factory in October pressure in piracy produced as a book, months before the Fischer Verlag , who held the rights, came out with it. A total of around 10,000 pirated prints were created that were sold in canteens and in Berlin bookshops. Görner used the proceeds to buy photographic equipment.

In 1976 Görner set out to track down Don Juan Matus , Castaneda's main character, on the edge of the Sonoran Desert in a Yaqui village . After searching in vain for him, he traveled on to New York City to see the LSD researcher Richard Alpert , who, together with Timothy Leary, had launched the “ psychedelic revolution”, and received his permission to translate the book Be here now! into German. He also successfully placed this book and another by Castaneda in Berlin bookstores, until the rumor spread that spies had been used on the pirated printers, whereupon Görner stopped his illegal activity and preferred to drive himself, his wife and his child as taxi drivers and To feed newspaper deliverers.

In this situation he turned increasingly to photography and began to occupy himself primarily with architecture and portrait photography. He photographed the Erich-Göpfert-Stadthalle in Unna with a borrowed large format camera . His first commissioned work was in 1982 for the planned International Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1984/1987, taking pictures of Oranienstrasse . Many more pictures were taken that allowed him to distinguish himself as an internationally sought-after architectural photographer over the course of the next twenty years, including aerial photos he took from the helicopter of changes in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Pictures of the interior design of Berlin museums ( Gemäldegalerie Berlin , Bode-Museum , Alte Nationalgalerie , Neues Museum ) and of libraries in Europe and the United States, which he also distributes as large-format photographs through international agencies and galleries, attracted particular attention . Publications of his photos have appeared in many well-known domestic and foreign architecture magazines and in many books on architecture.

He has been working as an artistic photographer since 2005.

literature

  • Hans W. Korfmann: Kreuzberger: Reinhard Görner. Doors are my subject . In: Kreuzberger Chronik . Issue 201, August 2018 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Jenkins (eds.), Frederick Baker , Deborah E. Lipstadt , Norman Foster (contributions): The Reichstag Graffiti . Jovis, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-931321-05-5 , p. 127
  2. ↑ Philipp Kienzl: Nowhere else can you read as beautifully as in these libraries . Article in the portal ze.tt from November 4, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2020
  3. ^ Zoé Sagan: L'artiste Reinhard Görner photographie les plus belles bibliothèques du monde . Article in the apar.tv portal from February 2, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2020
  4. ^ Library Bookworm: Reinhard Görner . In: Knovvmads , February 1, 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Görner, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig