Sepp Reinhard

Sepp Reinhard , (actually Josef , known as Katastrophen-Sepp , born December 29, 1931 in Sachseln ) is a Swiss photographer .

biography

Sepp Reinhard is the son of the photographer Joseph Reinhard (1901–1975) and the father of the photographer Daniel Reinhard (* 1960). His father initially had a hairdresser in Flüeli-Ranft , where he developed the tourists' films. He taught himself to take photos and thus became a landscape photographer and postcard publisher. In 1932 he opened a stationery and photo shop in Sachseln.

Sepp Reinhard continued his father's craft. He photographed automobile racing from 1946 to 1979 . He got his start in Formula 1 photography with the Swiss Grand Prix in Bern in 1950 . In addition to car photography, he was active as a press photographer in the canton of Obwalden for decades . Since he was one of the first to be on site in many accidents, he was nicknamed Disaster Sepp . In order to be informed in good time, he had written out a five-liter as a reward for reporting .

His son Daniel Reinhard became an industrial and advertising photographer and made a name for himself in particular as a Formula 1 photographer. In 1979 he took over this task from his father and has since photographed 470 Formula 1 races (as of 2011).

In the storm of August 15, 1997, the Reinhard's house in Sachseln was also affected. A third of the photo archive was destroyed. On his 80th birthday, the canton of Obwalden honored Sepp Reinhard with the fact that his works were exhibited as large-format posters in eight locations in the canton. In 2019 Fotohaus Reinhard was honored with the Obwalden Culture Prize.

Sepp Reinhard lives with his wife Rösi in Sachseln.

Exhibitions

• 2001: Museum Bruder Klaus : "The Obwalden Reinhard Photographer Dynasty"
• 2004: Biel Photo Days
• 2011: Photo exhibition “125 Auto Motive” at Fachsenfeld Castle
• October 2012 - May 2013: Exhibition together with Traute Multhaupt (Textile Pictures) in the Via-Cordis house, Flüeli-Ranft

book

• Elisabeth Zurgilgen (text), Joseph, Sepp and Daniel Reinhard (photos): Disaster Sepp: the Obwalden photographer dynasty Reinhard. Verlag Brunner, Kriens 2001, ISBN 3-905198-60-6 .

Movie

• Angelo A. Lüdin, Barbara Zürcher: Trophies of the time. The Reinhard photographer dynasty from Sachseln. Documentary film, 2006.
  The film was broadcast on Swiss television in the Sternstunden series.

literature

• Sabi Zurgilgen : “Someone has to document the events” . In: Christof Hirtler (photographs); Heidy Gasser , Marbeth Reif, Sabi Zurgilgen, Peter Ming, Hanspeter Niederberger (texts): Images of people. Portraits of Obwalden residents. Landenberg Verlag, Sarnen 1992, pp. 12-21.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sepp Reinhard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Furious reporters with a joke. (PDF; 914 kB) , article by Claudio Zemp in the on- board magazine, 01/07.
• Video contribution of the show Schweiz aktuell on Swiss television from December 20, 2001 (6:11 min.) , On the occasion of the publication of the book Katastrophen-Sepp
• Niklaus Lenherr in conversation with the photographer Josef Reinhard , video on YouTube , 61 minutes, video in the series of the art project schau! window Sachseln

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Video contribution of the show Schweiz aktuell from 2001 (see web links), at 5:40 min.
2. ↑ As a teenager I wanted to be a racing driver - Daniel Reinhard, Formula 1 star photographer, in conversation.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the ONZ Obwalden and Nidwalden newspaper from January 18, 2011  
3. ↑ Frenzied reporters with a joke , see web links
4. ↑ 80 years of disaster Sepp - Obwalden congratulates with a poster campaign.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article in the ONZ Obwalden and Nidwalden newspaper from December 29, 2011.  
5. ↑ Josef Reinhard turns 80. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Online photo series of the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from December 29, 2011. 
6. ↑ Josef Reinhard II ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Photos and short biography on 125-auto-motive.com 
7. ↑ Trophies of Time. Information about the film on the artfilm.ch website
8. ^ SRF TV program: Sternstunde Kunst: Trophies of Time. The Reinhard photographer dynasty from Sachseln - a photo and local history spanning three generations. Program review on the Swiss television website, accessed on April 10, 2013.