Ulrich Brinkhoff
Ulrich Brinkhoff (* 1940 in Holzminden ) is a German photographer and writer .
life and work
Ulrich Brinkhoff bought his first good camera in 1952 with the prize money of the photo competition “Big photo competition with the box”. Before that he took photos with an old “ Agfa box” of his mother. After graduating from high school , he began an apprenticeship at the German salaried health insurance company . In 1960 he finished his training as an insurance salesman . From 1961 to 1972 he worked in the diplomatic service for the German Foreign Office in Sierra Leone , South Korea , South Vietnam and Bolivia .
In 1968 in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War he saved the life of the German ambassador Ulrich Scheske and received the Federal Medal of Merit from Federal President Heinrich Lübke .
After his return to Germany in 1972, he worked in the pharmaceutical and furniture industries in southern Lower Saxony until 1988. After moving to Münsterland, he has been a photo artist and freelance journalist since 1989, and a writer since 2013. He describes his way of working as a photo artist as “seeing through the lens” and making collages. He deliberately refrains from manipulating with the medium of film or the PC . Since 2012 no more photos have been taken by film; Since then, Brinkhoff has been working with standard Nikon digital cameras in pocket format. However, he remains true to his principle of “no digital processing”. He wrote the following sentence: "A special photo is not created by an expensive camera, but by a good eye."
Since 2007 Ulrich Brinkhoff has devoted himself increasingly to the genre of street art and street theater . In addition to the well-known festivals in Europe (e.g. Chalon dans la Rue , TAC Valladolid, Cergy soit Paris or Bildstören Detmold), he also documents global venues such as the Gwacheon Festival , the Hi-Seoul Festival and the Goyang Lake Art Festival in Korea, as well as traditional festivals in Hong Kong, e.g. B. the Mid-Autumn Festival , better known under the former name Moon Festival .
His first book, Dreams in the Morning Calm, Korea 1964/65 , was published in 2013 , a mixture of diary and love story. It contains numerous photos of South Korea from that time, as well as current ones from 2011. In 2014, the sequel Nightmares on the Saigon River, South Vietnam 1965–1968 was published with a focus on the Vietnam War . In 2016 Carnival appeared on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia and South America 1969–1971 . This concluded the trilogy of 10 years of service in the Federal Foreign Office . It describes life as a member of German embassies on three continents, but also the private environment of an embassy employee and his Korean-born wife, who died shortly afterwards in a traffic accident in Germany at the age of 28. This book is again richly illustrated with my own photos from that time.
Ulrich Brinkhoff lives and works in Greven . He is married and has two grown sons. From 1989 to 1992 Brinkhoff was an elected member of Greven's city council. Many of his digital photographs he left as a premature legacy to the city archives Greven.
Exhibitions
Since 1991 various solo exhibitions have taken place in Münsterland as well as in Osnabrück , Worpswede , Emmerich, Stadtoldendorf, Holzminden , Duisburg and Fürstenberg / Weser. In group exhibitions his works were among others in 1999 in Linz (Austria) at “The best photos of the world”, 2005 at “1. World of Images Circuit ”and in 2005 and 2006 at the“ Trierenberg Super Circuit ”. In 1996 he received admission to the “Salon National d'Art Photographique” in Montargis (France) (with “L'ami est mort”) and multiple admission to “Art in our region” in the DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (formerly in the Tecklenburg town hall ). In the summer of 2015, 6 photos of him could be seen in the public space of Mons / Belgium, the European Capital of Culture, which he had photographed there a year earlier and which had been selected by a jury. In 2018, a jury selected him for “Here and Now”, an exhibition of contemporary art from the Münsterland in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm.
Awards
- 1968: Federal Merit Medal
- 1999: Gold medal at the "Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit" for the photo "Connection"
- 2005: Gold medal at the “1. World of Images Circuit "
- 2005: Gold medal at the “Trierenberg Super Circuit” (formerly Hasselblad A. S. C.) for the photo behind glass
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Roswitha Hoffmann-Wittenburg: Seeing through the lens. Fascinating exhibition by the award-winning photographer Ulrich Brinkhoff . In: New Westphalian . May 11, 2007.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 22, 2016 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.
- ↑ http://www.lz.de/lippe/kreis_lippe/3563416_Detmold-im-kreativen-Ausnahmestatus.html
- ↑ Brinkhoff's number one. Greener writes book about Korea , Westfälische Nachrichten, November 8, 2013, accessed on December 24, 2014
- ^ Stadtarchiv Greven, digital photos by Ulrich Brinkhoff - Signature: StaG Dep 65D ; Retrieved November 19, 2016
- ↑ Reports from the former Faculty of Civil Engineering HAWK Hildesheim. In: hawk-hhg.de. www.hawk-hhg.de, accessed on November 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinkhoff, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzminden |