Rolf Kreuder

Rolf Kreuder (born April 7, 1923 in Würzburg ; † August 2, 1995 in Fulda ) was a German photographer who lived in Tann (Rhön) .

Life

The son of a pharmacist completed elementary school in Tann (Rhön), Latin school in Geisa and commercial school in Fulda before he began an apprenticeship as a photographer in Eisenach . Further training at the Bauhaus in Weimar . During the Second World War, Kreuder was used as a photo reporter on the Eastern Front. He experienced the Kesselschlacht in Stalingrad and the conquest of Berlin by the Red Army . Kreuder returned to Tann (Rhön) on August 2, 1945 after being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. Then studied at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich with a degree in the master class for photography and film, master's examination.

Kreuder made a name for himself primarily as a church photographer and co-author of numerous illustrated books. Since 1949 portrait studio in Tann (Rhön). In the 1950s he worked with the illustration photographer Hans Retzlaff , who also lives in Tann (Rhön) and who contributed nine photographs to the illustrated book "Der Untermensch" published by the Reichsführer SS in 1942 . In 1961, he traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel on behalf of Lufthansa to photograph people, cultures and holy places. Kreuder, who has been a freelance photo journalist since 1961, distanced himself from the Nazi regime , kept his distance from Retzlaff and dealt intensively with the Middle East, especially Israel , in his later years . In 1991 the Bonifatiushaus in Fulda showed an exhibition by Kreuder ("Israel - Land of Contrasts"). Its urn contained soil and an olive branch from the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem .

The extensive estate of Rolf Kreuder is in the Episcopal Vicariate General in Fulda .

Awards

• Photokina Prize Winners, 1951, 1952 and 1954
• World Press Photo Foundation, 1st prize in the category "Most Artistic Press Photo", 1965
• German journalist award for his report on the school for the blind in Marburg , 1968

Web links

• [1] on the World Press Photo Foundation website.