Robert Grahn

Night aerial photo, B 44 at the ramp to the Kurt-Schumacher-Bridge on the banks of the Rhine in Ludwigshafen

Infrared aerial photo, infrared photo of residential areas at Brauhausstrasse Halle Saale

Oblique aerial view, Green Point Stadium Cape Town

Robert Grahn (* 1964 in Potsdam ) is a German aerial photographer .

Life

Robert Grahn grew up in the GDR . As a teenager he completed glider training at the Society for Sport and Technology at the Kreuzbruch airfield north of Berlin. Later on he did a professional training as an aircraft mechanic with the GDR airline Interflug in Berlin-Schönefeld. After his military service in the National People's Army of the GDR, he worked as a volunteer with the Märkische Volksstimme and as a photo reporter with the military image service MBD of the GDR military publisher . In 1988 the first own aerial photo productions took place - until the fall as a photo reporter for the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland .

After the fall of the Wall he undertook his own aerial photo flights nationwide under the name Luftbild & Pressefoto for daily newspapers and publishers. After working as a photo reporter for Berlin daily newspapers, Grahn has been the operator of two commercial press photo agencies since 1997: the agency euroluftbild.de , which specializes in aerial photo formats, and the contemporary history agency ddrbildarchiv.de , which also markets images from the visual arts.

Since 2013 there have been increasing reports of systematic warnings from euroluftbild.de/Robert Grahn, represented by law firms, claiming the improper use of copyrighted images to which euroluftbild.de claims to have the exclusive rights. The lawyers asked the recipients of the warnings to submit a declaration of cease and desist with criminal penalties and to pay substantial damages and legal fees of up to several thousand euros.

Publications

• Robert Grahn (Ed.): Night over Berlin - The shining capital from above. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86368-122-7 .
• Change in flight: Berlin's changes after the fall of the wall. Berlin Story Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86368-041-1 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Grahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The aerial photos by Robert Grahn. Deutsche Welle Euromaxx, March 19, 2014
• At a glance: Berlin from above. Deutsche Welle Euromaxx, January 9, 2016
• These Berlin night shots are simply breathtaking. Berliner Morgenpost, January 7, 2018
• Potsdam is so beautiful from the air. Märkische Allgemeine, September 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florian Sievers: warning euroluftbild.de - euroluftbild.de takes back claims from warning. Sievers & Kollegen - Law firm for media law, January 14, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Warning: warnings due to aerial photos MDCC Arena Magdeburg. American Football Verband Deutschland eV, September 23, 2015, accessed on August 17, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Katharina von Leitner-Scharfenberg: The law firm Denecke, Pries und Partner, based in Berlin, sends warnings for unauthorized use of photos, preferably to bloggers, private and commercial website operators i. A. v. WENN GmbH, Flaconi GmbH, Stock4B GmbH, euroluftbild.de. anwalt24.de, February 23, 2014, accessed on August 17, 2017 . 
4. ^ Jacob Metzler: Denecke, von Haxthausen, Priess & Partner - warning for violation of rights of use according to the copyright law on behalf of euroluftbild.de. rechtsanwalt-metzler.de, August 19, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Andreas Forsthoff: Warning for violation of usage rights by Robert Grahn (company euroluftbild.de) by the law firm Denecke Priess & Partner Rechtsanwälte. Lawyer Andreas Forsthoff, June 5, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2017 .