Wolfgang Quickels

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Wolfgang Quickels (born June 26, 1952 in Wanne-Eickel ; † October 8, 2014 in Herne ) was a German photographer and journalist who documented the Ruhr area , its structural change and city views in photos and books.

Life

Quickels grew up in the Eickel garden city . After studying art and economics at the University of Dortmund , he started working as a freelancer in the Ostvest editorial team of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in 1977 . In 1980, after completing an internship at WAZ Essen, he started working as a photo editor for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. In 1985 he moved to the WAZ local editorial office in Herten, and in 2007 to the WAZ local editorial office in Herne-Wanne-Eickel. Since 1980 he and his future wife Carola, a photographer, were a couple. In 1989 they moved with their two sons into an old miner's house in Holsterhausen .

From 2010 he worked as a freelance photographer, in the same year founded the halloherne company company with his wife and long-term colleague Günter Mydlak, and despite many years of mesothelioma , he published the local online newspaper halloherne with an editorial team , which has been published by Carola since 2014 Quickels is led. Quickels died in 2014. His grave is in the municipal cemetery in Holsterhauser on Horststrasse.

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Quickels lived in Herne all his life, was always connected to his region and chose his topics from this: "The never-ending structural change, the disappearance of mining, the labor disputes, the preservation of industrial culture and the change in the Ruhr industrial landscape". From 1987 to 1997 he photographed the labor struggle of the miners for the preservation of the Ewald colliery in Herten, from actions, protests and company meetings of the miners to the storming of the A1 . He documented the shutdown of the Emscher-Lippe 1/2 coking plant in Datteln and the almost complete demolition of the Flottmann factory in Herne. “As a classic newspaper photographer, his style was more black and white and journalistic than colorful and flashy”. "Early on he felt the emotional value that the dying industrial landscape had for the people of this region". He photographed these “not as accessories for imposing industrial buildings, but as an active object”.

In 1987 he received the 1st prize of the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtverband in the photo competition with the topic: "Already lived today?" and in 2000 the 2nd prize in the photo competition of the Emscher Lippe Agency with the topic: "What color is the electricity?"

In 2006 he was included in the Ruhrgebiet pixel project with the series “First the colliery, then the city”. The photo series includes 30 black and white photos in 30 x 45 format. The photo series “Hafthaus Herne”, “In the valley of the Ruhr”, “Brockenhaus Herne” and the series “New for old - The history of the Hoheward settlement” were also included in the pixel project Ruhr area.

"Wolfgang Quickels chose his motifs and photo series with journalistic commitment and a high aesthetic imagination". He “... was one of the photographers whose photos established an aesthetic of industrial culture color photography that is still common today . Reduced to architectural lines and details and with a keen sense for the ambient light, the relics of the large-scale mining and industrial buildings that appear in a new light were staged ”.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1995: Hertenbilder , Kreissparkasse Herten
  • 2001: Industrial culture in the Ruhr area , Herten future center
  • 2002: Ruhrstadt industrial culture, Herne tax office
  • 2012: Large photo exhibition , together with Christian Kuck and Brigitte Krämer, Schwarzkaue Zeche Ewald
  • 2019: Wolfgang Quickels: Photography - Retrospective , Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel
Group exhibitions
  • 1988: Mining crisis , Kreissparkasse Herten, together with Kurt Schrage
  • 1991: First international photo days in Herten, local press photos in Herten town hall
  • 2002: Photos from the Coming Home production of the Ruhr Theater Festival by Wolfgang Quickels together with industrial photos of the Ewald mine by Dietmar Klingenburg in the glass house and the management of the Ewald colliery
  • 2002: The screens . International art photo project by Peter Grzan , photographed by Brigitte Krämer, Wolfhard Schulz, Wolfgang Quickels, Lo Blickensdorf, Hans Blossey , Maschinenhalle Scherlebeck
  • 2006: Art Bunker Tumulka Munich
  • 2006: Pixel project Ruhr area , Science Park Gelsenkirchen with the photo series First the colliery dies, then the city
  • 2007: Pixel project Ruhr area , Science Park Gelsenkirchen with the photo series Im Tal der Ruhr
  • 2008: Pixel project Ruhr area , Science Park Gelsenkirchen with the photo series Hafthaus Herne
  • 2010: Pixel project in the Ruhr area , Gelsenkirchen Science Park with the Brockenhaus Herne photo series

Publications (selection)

  • Herten . Illustrated book with texts by Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels; Droste, Herten 1992, ISBN 3-980 1008-3-9
  • Schlosspark Herten - A little piece of paradise . Illustrated book with texts by Gregor Spohr, Friedrich Duhme, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels; Droste, Herten 1997, ISBN 978-3893559091
  • Romantic Ruhr area - industrial culture between half-timbered buildings and winding towers . Illustrated book with texts by Wolfgang Schulze, Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels, Hans Blossey; Pompverlag, Bottrop 1997, ISBN 978-3893551453
  • Romantic Ruhr area - churches and monasteries in the Ruhr area . Illustrated book with texts by Wolfgang Schulze, Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels, Hans Blossey; Pompverlag, Bottrop 1999, ISBN 978-3893551934
  • Herten. CityImageTape . Illustrated book with texts by Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels, Hans Blossey; RDN-Verlag, Recklinghausen 2005, ISBN 978-3981012019
  • First the colliery dies, then the city . Peter Liedtke , Wolfgang Quickels, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006
  • It was, it will. The Ewald colliery from 1871 to 2010 in history / s and pictures . Texts by Sybille Raudies, Eberhard Scholz, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels; RDN-Verlag, Recklinghausen 2007, ISBN 978-3981012033
  • 100 objects Herne: an art and cultural history through the city . Texts by Alexander von Knorre, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels; JournalistenBüro Herne 2009, ISBN 978-3981326604
  • Baroque & Mountains: The Herten Castle Park and the Hoheward Landscape Park . Texts by Stefan Prott, Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels, Hans Blossey; Prott et al. Spohr 2010, ISBN 978-3981396300
  • In love with the vest: The Recklinghausen district . Texts by Stefan Prott, Gregor Spohr, pictures by Wolfgang Quickels, Hans Blossey; Prott et al. Spohr 2012, ISBN 978-3981396331
  • On Crange! - The book about the fair . Wolfgang Berke , Wolfgang Quickels, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-1125-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Liedtke : And again fate struck - for the death of Wolfgang Quickels . In: ruhr.speak from October 11, 2014. Accessed November 5, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d Ralf Piorr : The man with the camera . In: inHerne , No. 4/2019, pp. 26 to 28. Retrieved on November 5, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Günter Mydlák: We mourn Wolfgang Quickels . In: halloherne from October 8, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2019
  4. ↑ Horst Martens: Balance after five years: halloherne - with a focus on news . In: inHerne on February 26, 2016. Accessed on November 6, 2019
  5. ↑ waz.trauer.de: Obituary notice . Retrieved November 5, 2019
  6. ↑ a b c City of Herne: Exhibitions in the Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz: Wolfgang Quickels - Photography.Retrospective (November 15, 2019 to January 21, 2020) . Retrieved January 20, 2020
  7. ↑ Pixel project Ruhr area: first the colliery dies, then the city - background . Retrieved November 6, 2019
  8. ↑ City of Herten: Photo series by Wolfgang Quickels for the pixel project in the Ruhr area on March 17, 2006. Accessed on November 6, 2019
  9. ↑ Pixel project Ruhr area: Photo series in the pixel project Ruhr area. Retrieved November 6, 2019
  10. ↑ Flyer for the exhibition Kunst-Querschlag in the Ewald colliery / Künstlerzeche Our Fritz : Wolfgang Quickels: Photography - Retrospective . Retrieved November 6, 2019
  11. ↑ Coolibri: Wolfgang Quickels: Photography - Retrospective . Retrieved November 6, 2019
  12. ^ Website Peter Grzan: screens . Retrieved November 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Quickels, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2014
Place of death Herne