Stefan Nimmesgern

Stefan Nimmesgern (born August 27, 1956 in Saarlouis ) is a German photographer with studios in Munich, Berlin and Brooklyn, New York.

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life and work

Stefan Nimmesgern was born as the son of Elisabeth Becker and the civil engineer Harald Nimmesgern from the French Alsace under the name Stefan Rudolf Becker. After graduating from high school, Nimmesgern turned to photography. In 1981 he began training as an advertising photographer , which he completed in 1983 with the state examination. In the same year, Nimmesgern founded his first studio for advertising photography under the name Stefan Becker in Saarbrücken. In 1995, Nimmesgern moved to San Francisco, California.

During a stay in Wiesbaden he met the actress Angelika Fanai , with whom he moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus in 1997. In 1998 he married Angelika Fanai and moved with her to a fishing village on Lake Starnberg in the south of Munich. In the same year he founded the PPS photo studio in the center of Munich together with the fashion photographer Markus Amon and the entrepreneur Martin Hippius. He took his father's surname. From 2001 he works as Stefan Nimmesgern.

Nimmesgern turned more and more to editorial photography and reports. For GEO (magazine) he went on a boat trip to Greenland with Hans Zippert . In 2002 Nimmesgern got to know the extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner on an expedition to Franz-Josef-Land , near the North Pole . The recordings of this trip were published in an article by the journalist Freddy Langer in the FAZ . In the following years Nimmesgern undertook numerous photo trips to South America, Africa, as well as to the Middle and Far East. In 2005, he and his wife accompanied the South Tyrolean Reinhold Messner on a trip to Nanga Parbat as an expedition photographer . In the course of this trip, the remains of the body of Günther Messner , Reinhold Messner's brother who died in an accident in 1970 during the Herrligkoffer expedition, were found at the foot of the Diamir wall of Nanga Parbat. This find, which can be considered a mountaineering event of the century because it proves the statements of Reinhold Messner, who was wrongly criticized at the time, as truthful, was documented in pictures by Stefan Nimmesgern. The report was published worldwide; so the recordings appeared in National Geographic , GEO magazine and OUTSIDE.

Today Stefan Nimmesgern works in his studios, but also often on location. He is known for his portraits, which u. a. can be seen in ZEIT magazine. In recent years he has photographed personalities such as Barbara Rudnik , Alexander Huber , Niki Lauda and Mario Vargas Llosa . For 2006, together with the DAV Summit Club and Reinhold Messner, he produced a photo calendar about the Nanga Parbat expedition in Pakistan. In 2008 he showed his perspective on the still Che Guevara - shaped Cuba in unusual pictures in the Gasteig in Munich. In 2011, Nimmesgern and his wife went on a trekking expedition to the remote Dolpo area in Nepal .

Exhibitions and books

• 2002: Brazil book "Moments" and picture calendar "Brazil" for AMECC
• 2003: Exhibition “Expedition Franz-Josef-Land / Lava on Etna”, New York, Soho, Salon Modern
• 2004: Exhibition "Faces of Brasil", Ambach am Starnberger See, Schlosshotel Oberambach
• 2005: Exhibition “Nanga Parbat; of mountains and people ”, Kempten, Big Box
• 2006: Exhibition “Nanga Parbat; of mountains and people ”, Leverkusen, gallery in the forum
• 2006: Exhibition "Tourist Animals", Berlin, Gallery "Damensalon"
• 2008: Exhibition Che Guevara Encounter on Cuba , Munich, Gasteig
• 2009: Book project with Reinhold Messner, "Diamir, King of the Mountains"
• 2009: Book title for “Greenland, a travel diary” by Freddy Langer
• 2010: Book project with Louis Lewitan "The art of staying calm"; b / w portraits
• 2011: Book project in progress with the Bauhaus Museum Weimar; Photos of Marcel Breuer Villa in Wiesbaden

Web links

• faz.net , accessed January 2, 2012.
• bergnews.com
• geo.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ geo.de , accessed on January 7, 2012.
2. ↑ The Search for Günther Messner  ( 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. , accessed January 5, 2012.  
3. ↑ focus.de: Fundgrube Nanga Parbat , accessed on January 5, 2012.
4. ↑ archiv.sueddeutsche.de  ( 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.  
5. ↑ randomhouse.de
6. ↑ archiv.sueddeutsche.de  ( 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.  
7. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "Che Guevara - the immortal myth", photo exhibition by Stefan Nimmesgern (PDF; 1.7 MB) )