Robert Sennecke
Robert Wilhelm Sennecke (born February 12, 1885 in Pyritz , † June 8, 1940 in Lübben ) was a German press photographer and marathon runner .
Olympic marathon runner
Little is known about Sennecke's sporting career. Busy though, is that he was a member of the SC Comet Berlin at the 1906 Summer Olympics for the German Reich during marathon took. However, he had to stop the run before reaching the goal.
Press photographer
Sennecke was already active as a journalistic photographer before the First World War and served as a war correspondent after 1914 . He was active among other things with the German military advisors in the Ottoman Empire , where he was nominally a member of the Turkish army and also wore their uniform.
After the end of the war, Sennecke became one of the most famous press photographers of the time. With the recordings of his own picture agency Internationaler Illustrations-Verlag , which has become one of the most renowned companies in the industry, he supplied both the German press and foreign news agencies with the latest photo material of current events and people. Sennecke employed several well-known press photographers; his own specialty was sports photography , to which he paid particular attention.
In 1928, Sennecke's health deteriorated rapidly. He was forced to hand over the management of his company to the former executive BUFA employee Johann Warning . In 1931 he fell mentally deranged and became a nursing case. His daughter Edith's attempt to continue the agency was unsuccessful, so that on August 14, 1936, while Sennecke was living in the Görden sanatorium in Brandenburg , bankruptcy proceedings had to be opened. His extensive photo archive went into private hands, although the whereabouts of it have not been fully clarified; a number of the original negatives are now in the possession of the Carl and Liselott Diem archive at the Cologne Sports University .
literature
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Diethart Kerbs , Walter Uka, Brigitte Walz-Richter on behalf of the Association of German Art Educators (ed.): The synchronization of images. On the history of press photography 1930–36. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88725-033-8 , p. 35f., P. 65
- therein: Arthur von Brietzke, Diethart Kerbs: They all had to look in front of the lens . Interview. S. 18–31, about Sennecke: S. 18f., S. 26f.
- Diethart Kerbs: Revolution and Photography, Berlin 1918/19. Nishen-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88940-028-0 , short biography on p. 146; Photos on pages 151, 152, 203, 226, 244, 249–255, 260, 288
Web links
- Robert Sennecke in the Olympedia.org database (English)
- Wolf-Rainer Sennecke: Robert Sennecke , short biography for a portrait photo, at europeana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sennecke, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sennecke, Robert Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German press photographer and athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pyritz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1940 |
| Place of death | Luebben |