Werner Starke (mountaineer)

Werner Starke (* 1936 ) is a German geographer, mountaineer and photographer.

Live and act

Werner Starke worked as a scientist at the German Photo Library in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library . In the 1970s he toured the Soviet Union several times . In 1975 he took part in an expedition to Peak Communism in the Pamir Mountains , which at 7,495 m were the highest mountain accessible to GDR citizens at the time, and according to his own statements also reached the summit. In later publications it is rumored that Werner Starke himself should not have reached the summit.

Werner Starke was director of the Deutsche Fotothek from February 1989 to April 1999, succeeding Walter May .

He designed the Saxon Wine Trail .

Publications

Ivo Petřik: Pictures from the Himalayas. With text contributions and picture comments by Werner Starke. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-325-00258-7 .

Saxon Wine Trail. Pirna, Graupa, Dresden, Radebeul, Coswig, Niederau, Meissen, Zadel, Diesbar-Seusslitz. Meißner Tageblatt, Meißen 2008, ISBN 978-3-929705-13-3 .

The Elbe wine villages. Saxon Elbe Wine Villages Tourist Association, Diesbar-Seusslitz 2004, DNB 102405201X .

Ossi on the road. Notschriften, Radebeul 2017, ISBN 978-3-945481-60-8 .

literature

Unrecognized by Freundesland. In: Superillu . No. 17/2013 ( online ( memento of March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) PDF; 1.3 MB).

Web links

Werner Starke on bildindex.de

Individual evidence

↑ Werner Starke on baerenzwinger.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Michaela Widder: The life-saving lie. In: Saxon newspaper . July 16, 2019, p. 3 ( beginning of article on genios.de).
↑ Sven Geisler: The lie must be eliminated from the world. In: Saxon newspaper. October 2, 2019, p. 10.
^ History of the Deutsche Fotothek on slub-dresden.de
↑ 75 years of the collections of the Deutsche Fotothek. In: Courier. 13th year, issue 4, 1999, ISSN 0863-0682 , p. 10.
↑ Dresden area on dresden-und-sachsen.de

personal data
SURNAME	Strong, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geographer, mountaineer and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1936

[1] Werner Starke on baerenzwinger.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Michaela Widder: The life-saving lie. In: Saxon newspaper . July 16, 2019, p. 3 ( beginning of article on genios.de).

[3] Sven Geisler: The lie must be eliminated from the world. In: Saxon newspaper. October 2, 2019, p. 10.

[4] History of the Deutsche Fotothek on slub-dresden.de

[5] 75 years of the collections of the Deutsche Fotothek. In: Courier. 13th year, issue 4, 1999, ISSN 0863-0682 , p. 10.

[6] Dresden area on dresden-und-sachsen.de