Roswitha Hecke

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Roswitha Hecke (* 1944 in Hamburg ) is a German photographer .

Life

After completing her apprenticeship as a photographer, Roswitha Hecke met the director Peter Zadek and spent years photographing his productions as well as those by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and, in Paris, films by Éric Rohmer . She lived for a few years with the writer Wolf Wondratschek , with whom she traveled through America in the 1970s and together published the book “Menschen-Orte-Fäuste”. Hecke took portraits of numerous artists, including Omar Sharif , Heinz Bennent , Ingrid Caven and Andrés Segovia .

Her book "Liebes Leben" about the Zurich prostitute Irene was awarded the "Kodak Prize" for the best photo book in 1979 by Rogner & Bernhard and in 1982 in the Rowohlt paperback edition by the Buchkunst Foundation as one of the "most beautiful books of the year ".

Hecke traveled extensively to all continents, she lived in Morocco for three years and in 2002 she moved to St. Petersburg, where she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts (master class photography). Hecke has two sons and now lives in Hamburg.

Photo art

With her candid pictures, Roswitha Hecke tries to explore strange, often simple milieus and worlds. She observes closely, without prejudice and with empathy. Some photography cycles deal with people on the fringes of society: transvestites, homeless people and prostitutes, to whom she lets their dignity in the pictures. Another topic is her examination of the "fascination of men" and the forms of expression of machismo . She published her pictures in numerous magazines, for example in Vogue , Twen , Stern , Playboy , Theater heute , Die Zeit and Spiegel . The director of the “ Berliner Festspiele ” Joachim Sartorius judged her work : “She never makes her“ models ”ridiculous, but she doesn't glorify them either. Her eye never stops asking. So her pictures are sincere, sometimes humorous and always distinctive. "

Exhibitions

  • 1978: Galerie Levy, Hamburg ("Dear Life")
  • 1980: Photo forum in the factory, Hamburg
  • 1990: Prince Gallery, Kyoto
  • 1997: Libro Azul, Ibiza
  • 1999: Levy Gallery, Madrid
  • 2000: Kunsthaus Hannover
  • 2002: Contemporary Art Gallery, Basel
  • 2002: Speicherstadtmuseum Hamburg (outdoor installation “Secret Views”)
  • 2005: Aplanat Gallery for Photography, Hamburg
  • 2006: Galerie Molitoris, Hamburg
  • 2007: Academy of the Arts , Berlin
  • 2007: Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2009: Galerie Burgerstocker, Zurich

Books

  • Love life. Pictures with Irene . Illustrated book. Rogner & Bernhard, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-8077-0100-1 .
  • Blott til lyst. pictures with Irene . Sandberg, Oslo 1982, ISBN 82-7316-144-7 .
  • Man for man . Illustrated book. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-498-02883-9 .
  • Japanese edition of Dear Life . JICC Shuppankyoku. Tokyo 1993, ISBN 4-7966-0582-7 .
  • Pigalle . With a text by Joachim Sartorius. German and English. König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-162-9 .
  • Secret Views. Photographs from 1964 to the present day . Exhibition catalog and book. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8296-0325-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Nothing is more amazing than life . In: Secret Views. Photographs from 1964 to the present day . Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8296-0325-6 .
  2. ↑ "I touch and am touched" , Spiegel Online , November 24, 2007.

literature

  • Almut F. Kaspar: Roswitha Hecke. Secret looks . In: Stern from October 5, 2007.
  • Joachim Sartorius: Nothing is more amazing than life. Notes on the photographic work of Roswitha Hecke . In: Secret views. Photographs from 1964 to the present day . Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-8296-0325-6 .
  • Jens Hinrichsen: A quiet look . In: Der Tagesspiegel from November 6, 2007.
  • Andrea Tholl: I touch and I am touched . Interview with Roswitha Hecke. Spiegel online, November 24, 2007.
  • Press kit of the Martin-Gropius-Bau for the 2007 exhibition in Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Hecke, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg