Wolf Strache

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Wolf Strache , actually Wolfgang Strache (born October 5, 1910 in Greifswald , † August 11, 2001 in Stuttgart ) was a German photographer , photojournalist and publisher .

Life

time of the nationalsocialism

Wolf Strache: Reichsautobahn with gas station , 1938/1939
Berlin Kurfürstendamm after a bomb attack, November 23, 1943
Wolf Strache
photography

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Strache studied at the University of Munich economics and a doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. He joined the NSDAP in 1933 with membership number 1,665,722. From 1934 on, he worked as a photo journalist, mainly on armaments-related topics, and published in his own publishing house from 1936 onwards.

For the magazine Der Stern , published in 1938/39 , he provided photo reports , such as the theater report “Only for Adults” in the magazine's opening issue in September 1938. During World War II , Strache served as a photo reporter for the propaganda company for special use by the Air Force High Command . In addition, he published books that dealt with the Reichsautobahn project and staged asphalt roads with large-format images as symbols of progressive modernism.

Strache's best-known photo was taken after the bombing raid on Berlin on November 22, 1943. It shows a woman pushing a pram through a landscape of ruins with a gas mask on her face; an illustration that was stylized as an "icon of the bombing war" after the war.

After 1945

After 1945, Strache continued his dual activity as a photographer and publisher, primarily with travel books and textbooks for photographers. In 1948 he declared that his photos of armaments technology and motorway projects before 1945 had presented the only modern thing in the Nazi state and that this was the war technology.

From 1951 Strache produced in his own publishing house Die Schöne Bücher , to which the supplementary publisher name Drei Brunnen Verlag Stuttgart was added in 1953 , a series of books entitled “The Beautiful Books” on landscapes, art and nature, a total of approx. 90 volumes. From 1955 to 1979 the yearbook “Das deutsche Lichtbild - Annual Show of German Photography”, also edited by Strache, was published.

In 1979 Strache was awarded the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography .

Publications (selection)

  • Most-favored nation clause and regional agreements in the Southeast European countries. Dissertation Munich 1935.
  • The Weserbuch - with 147 Leica photos. Publishing house Bong, Berlin / Leipzig 1935.
  • (Author): The Reichssportfeld. Gerhard Krause, Reichssportverlag, Berlin 1936. ´´
  • The Moselle Book - with 136 Leica photos. Preface by Jakob Kneip . Publishing house Bong, Berlin / Leipzig, 1936.
  • Little love for Columbus - a car diary. Publishing house Bong, Leipzig 1936.
  • On all highways. A picture book of new travel. Wittich, Darmstadt 1939.
  • Thundering engines. Picture book. The Tazzelwurm Verlag, Stuttgart 1942.
  • Aesthetics of the picture design. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
  • What was left for us. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1948.
  • Japan far country. Hatje, Stuttgart 1957.
  • (Co-author): 100 years of Porsche as reflected in contemporary history. Edited by Dr.-Ing.-hc-F.-Porsche-AG. Conception u. Contemporary history: Wolf Strache. Engine history. Part: Halwart Schrader. English text version: The Slonigers. Stuttgart 1975.
  • Photographic stations. Pictures from the years 1934–1980. Drei-Brunnen-Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-8717-4033-0 .
  • Fifty years ago - pictures from Germany 1932-1935. Verlag Hans Schöner, Königsbach-Stein 1986, ISBN 3-923765-14-2 .
  • I came from the bombed cities. Reports from Germany 1945. Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-0771-9 .
  • Reunion with the Weser. Pictures by Wolf Strache and Alfred Rosteck, texts by Ruth Merten. Verlag Schünemann, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-7961-1785-6 , Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln, ISBN 3-87585-112-9 .
  • Stuttgart with my eyes. Preface by Manfred Rommel . 5th edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1173-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolf Strache  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Sachsse: The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, p. 430.
  2. ↑ Tim Tolsdorff: From the shooting star to the fixed star. Two German magazines and their common history before and after 1945 . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2014, p. 237.
  3. ↑ Guido Knopp : The Second World War. Pictures we won't forget . Edel Books, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8419-0262-7 , p. 194 and P. 197.
  4. ↑ Rolf Sachsse: The education to look away. Photography in the Nazi state . Philo Fine Arts, Dresden 2003, p. 71.
  5. ↑ Die Wildente , the newsletter of the former members of the propaganda companies, praised Strache's editorship in 1955 in the category Fotokameraden : “It goes without saying, and doesn't really need to be mentioned, that among the authors of the pictures as well as among the designers of the forewords it is completely automatic a large number of former Bild war reporters are represented. - Dr. Wolfgang Strache, the editor, belonged to the Air Force KBK. Our old comrades from the photo reporter division are among the most important representatives of the photo generation who are now passionately continuing and developing the legacy of the old pioneers of the daguerreotype. ”( Die Wildente , PK Mitteilungsblatt, 10th episode, August 1955, p. 40)
  6. ↑ Drei Brunnen Verlag: History of the publishing house
  7. ↑ Wolf Strache . Short biography at Berlinische Galerie .
personal data
SURNAME Strache, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strache, Wolfgang (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, photo journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2001
Place of death Stuttgart