Richard Gleim

Richard Gleim (* 1941 in Düsseldorf ; † July 16, 2019 ibid; pseudonym: ar / gee gleim ) was a German photographer . His stage name ar / gee gleim , which he adopted as a scene photographer in the Düsseldorf punk scene at the end of the 1970s , corresponds to the English pronunciation of his initials R. G.

biography

Richard Gleim worked as a trained gardener with an additional commercial apprenticeship. In the 1950s Gleim played the clarinet in various jazz bands and in the evenings went to the clubs of Düsseldorf's old town under the pseudonym "Fat Daddy" . In 1978 he began to work as a freelance photographer and took his first paid photos for Frau im Spiegel , before becoming a photographer of the emerging Düsseldorf punk scene through his acquaintance with the band Der Plan . The 1980 magazine Spex showed a large number of his photos.

Gleim's photo documentation Guter Abzug was presented at the 1982 documenta in Kassel. His photographs are considered contemporary documents and some of them were taken at the Ratinger Hof . They were part of the exhibition Back to Concrete in July 2002 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . Gleim ran an artist agency in Düsseldorf for years and wrote as an author in various online magazines and blogs . Gleim is represented with several stories in the anthology Düsseldorf Walking from 2014. Richard Gleim is also involved in the traveling exhibition of the Goethe-Institut Geniale Dilletanten with 25 exhibits.

Gleim's photographs from 1980 to 1983 were exhibited from September 30 to October 14, 2017 under the title ZK und die Toten Hosen at the “PostPost - Grand Central” in Düsseldorf. Richard Gleim died in July 2019 at the age of 78.

literature

ar / gee Gleim: Good deduction. No Time Music Entertainment EK, 1982.
Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
Sven-André Dreyer : Düsseldorf Walking. michason & may , Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-86286-041-8 .
Diedrich Diederichsen , Leonhard Emmerling, Ulrich Wilmes: Geniale Dilletanten. Hatje Cantz Verlag , ISBN 978-3-7757-4034-0 .
ar / gee Gleim: ZK - Die Toten Hosen the early years 1980–1983. FanPro Verlag , Erkrath, ISBN 978-3-946502-09-8 .
Sven-André Dreyer , Michael Wenzel, Thomas Stelzmann: No breathing space - music from Düsseldorf. Droste Verlag , Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-7700-2067-6 .
ar / gee Gleim: History is being made - German underground in the eighties. Heyne, 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-27211-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Richter: Punk photographer died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 19, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 .
↑ Jazz in Düsseldorf - The 50s ( Memento from January 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Interview with Richard Gleim in Ox-Fanzine, issue 48.
↑ Richard Gleim: I would have bought the GOOD PRINT box back then ... gnogongo.de, January 12, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2019 .
↑ Sema Kouschkerian: As in Dusseldorf punk came off. Solinger Tageblatt , September 23, 2014, accessed on July 19, 2019 .
↑ Article about kraut mask replica

personal data
SURNAME	Gleim, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ar / gee gleim (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	16th July 2019
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Peter Richter: Punk photographer died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 19, 2019, accessed on July 19, 2019 .

[2] Jazz in Düsseldorf - The 50s ( Memento from January 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Interview with Richard Gleim in Ox-Fanzine, issue 48.

[4] Richard Gleim: I would have bought the GOOD PRINT box back then ... gnogongo.de, January 12, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2019 .

[5] Sema Kouschkerian: As in Dusseldorf punk came off. Solinger Tageblatt , September 23, 2014, accessed on July 19, 2019 .

[6] Article about kraut mask replica