Sabine Würich

Sabine Würich (* 1962 in Bogotá , Colombia ) is a German photographer and lives in Berlin .

Career

Würich initially dealt with theater photography, then studied photo design at the FH Dortmund (1991–1994) and since then has worked as an artistic photographer.

In her current book and exhibition project "Operation Heimkehr" (Operation Heimkehr), the photo artist asked herself in 2010, after examining images of visually impaired soldiers from the Second World War ("War Landscapes"), how Bundeswehr soldiers fare after their missions abroad, and how German society deals with the bypasses today's returnees. At the time, German politics was struggling to describe the Afghanistan mission as a “war”. In addition, there was a public debate as to whether the soldiers were being paid too little attention. Sabine Würich decided to portray soldiers. For the interviews and texts, she got the journalist Ulrike Scheffer, who was on the road with the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan and Kosovo for the Berliner Tagesspiegel and who also deals in her articles with the question of how foreign missions are changing Germany. Because since the Afghanistan mission, Germany has fallen again and citizens who see themselves as veterans. The Germans also have to come to terms with the fact that there are men and women among them who have been severely traumatized by experiences of violence in democratically legitimized military operations.

In “Operation Homecoming”, Bundeswehr soldiers report from a total of 17 missions how the time in the crisis areas shaped them.

Another focus of Würich's work is dealing with the history of National Socialism in the Cologne area and the fate of the forced laborers who were deported there . Another project that has been pursued for over twenty years is the documentation of the structural redesign in East Germany as a reflection of social processes.

Exhibitions (extract from the last 10 years)

• Operation Homecoming, German Bundestag, Berlin 2014
• war landscapes, Anti-War Museum, Berlin 2011/12
• Far East III, Schoeler-Schlößchen, Berlin 2011
• Personal views, participation in the interdisciplinary web project 2010
• Amnésia II, Museé de L'Hospice-Comtesse (Palais des Beuax Arts de Lille) 2010
• The Far East I, image projections and texts, Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin 2009
• Argus fotokunst gallery, Berlin 2009
• Amnesia, Nazi Documentation Center of the City of Cologne 2009
• The ship drove slowly through the night, like a coherent thought through the unconscious, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, ​​Cologne 2007
• The Memory of Places III, St. Theodor, Cologne 2006 *
• The memory of places II, XX. World Youth Day 2005
• The Memory of Places I, NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne, Cologne 2004

Collections

• Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Publications

• Operation Heimkehr, Bundeswehr soldiers about their lives after their foreign deployment , 2014 (Links Verlag) ISBN 9783861537595
• The Far East , 2009 (Kerber Verlag) ISBN 978-3866782655
• We were never allowed to enter the cathedral, portraits of former forced laborers , 2008 (Emons) ISBN 9783897055780
• The memory of the places, crime scenes of National Socialist crimes in Cologne , 2004 (Emons) ISBN 3897053497

Web links

• Literature by and about Sabine Würich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Würich's internet presence
• Biography Sabine Würich (gallery argus fotokunst)
• Works by Sabine Würich in the gallery argus fotokunst