Sven Marquardt

Sven Marquardt at the Leipzig Book Fair 2015

Sven Marquardt (born 3. February 1962 in Berlin ) is a German photographer and bouncer of techno clubs Berghain .

Life

Wall painting on the house, Potsdamer Strasse 151, in Berlin-Schöneberg

Sven Marquardt grew up in East Berlin . His father was a motorway builder, his mother a medical-technical assistant. In 1982 he began his training as a photographer and cameraman at DEFA . After first publications in the newspapers Sonntag and Das Magazin , he was Rudolf Schäfer's assistant from 1985 to 1986 . He worked as a fashion photographer for the magazine Sibylle around Roger Melis and Arno Fischer until the end of the 1980s . In the documentary "A dream in strawberry foil" about the fashion world of the GDR he appears as a contemporary witness.

In 1987/1988 he took part in the Xth  Art Exhibition of the GDR and in 1988 became a member of the Association of Visual Artists . Marquardt, whose pictures “described the inside and outside of his existence in the big city” and staged “exalted dreams of lust and fear”, was a photographic documentarist of the GDR subculture .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Marquardt initially withdrew from photography: "I had the feeling that I couldn't say anything more," he said later in an interview with Die Zeit .

In the 1990s, Marquardt began to work as a doorman for his brother Oliver Marquardt ( DJ Jauche ) at parties in the Ostgut discotheque . When the Ostgut closed in 2003, he started working as a photographer again. With the move to Berghain and its rise to a well-known address, Sven Marquardt became a symbol of Berlin nightlife, as he still watches over the entrance of the guests almost every weekend at the entrance door of the club, but mostly supported by other bouncers.

He wrote his autobiography, published in 2014, together with Judka Strittmatter , a granddaughter of the GDR writer Erwin Strittmatter .

Exhibitions

• Seelenkamerad, 2004, Trolley Berlin.
• 13 Monde , Viaux Gallery, Berlin 2007.
• Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, 2009.
• Free within limits , Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, 2009.
• Transitional Society , Academy of the Arts , Berlin 2009.

Publications

• In the future: Photographs 1984–2009. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-89812-723-3 .
• Saviour. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-89812-768-4 .
• with Judka Strittmatter: The night is life: autobiography. Ullstein Extra, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86493-025-6 .

Movies

• Rosas Welt (short film The toughest doorman in Berlin ), 2012, directed by Rosa von Praunheim
• Berlin Bouncer , 2019, directed by David Dietl
• Beauty & Evanescence , 2019, directed by Annekatrin Hendel

literature

• Ullrich Wallenburg, Ulrike Stöhring (Hrsg.): The fascination of the face: aspects of portrait photography. Brandenburgische Kulturstiftung, Cottbus 1988, ISBN 3-928696-14-9 .
• Dorothea Melis (Ed.): SIBYLLE. Fashion photography from three decades of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-164-8 .
• Free within limits - fashion photography underground. Kerber, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-86678-316-4 .
• Tobias Rapp : The face of truth. In: Der Spiegel. No. 31, July 28, 2014, p. 116 f.
• Nicky Heise: Sven Marquardt. General Artist Lexicon (AKL) - The visual artists of all times and peoples, vol. 87, p. 283, De Gruyter, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0

swell

• The power of the night. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 12, 2009, accessed February 24, 2010 . 
• He's the toughest. In: The time . August 8, 2009, accessed February 24, 2010 . 
• Some faces get stuck. In: art. January 23, 2008, accessed February 24, 2010 . 

Web links

Commons : Sven Marquardt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sven Marquardt's website
• Sven Marquardt at Discogs (English)
• Sven Marquardt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sven Marquardt in the Deschler gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WOW Art - The Mysterious Sven Marquardt by Fernanda Viana Dias ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 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. at wowrevista.com, accessed March 14, 2015 
2. ↑ Sven Marquardt: My photos were always staged. In: Dorothea Melis (Ed.): Sibylle - Modefotografie from three decades of GDR. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 1998, pp. 284-297.
3. ↑ TAZ report , visited on February 24, 2010.
4. ↑ adk.de
5. ^ Association of Visual Artists of the GDR a. a. (Ed.): X. Art Exhibition of the GDR. Berlin (East) 1987, p. 535.
6. ↑ adk.de
7. ↑ Eckhart Gillen, Rainer Haarmann (Ed.): Art in the GDR. Cologne 1990, p. 208.
8. ↑ ^{a b} He is the toughest. In: The time . No. 33, August 6, 2009.
9. ↑ See also Daniela Dahn : Art and Coal. The "scene" at Prenzlauer Berg. Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 237.
10. ↑ Report at Photography now , visited on February 24, 2010.
11. ↑ Report at Art Magazin ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2009 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. , visited on February 24, 2004. 
12. ↑ Report at Sentiment Conserve ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , visited on February 24, 2010. 
13. ^ Report at Strobo , visited on February 24, 2010.
14. ↑ Akademie der Künste ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2009 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. , visited on February 24, 2010. 
15. ↑ https://www.berlinale.de/de/archiv/jahresarchive/2019/02_programm_2019/02_Filmdatenblatt_2019_201914666.html#tab=video