Die Eröffnung findet am Freitag, den 6. Mai 2011, um 19 Uhr im Postfuhramt in der Oranienburger Straße 35/36 in Berlin-Mitte.
All dates subject to the further fate of C / O Berlin Postfuhramt.
surrender, zero hour, Berlin in ruins. The zoo felled and the bombed out Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Nicolai quarter a ruined landscape, the Hauptbahnhof full of refugees - and has slowly moving into the everyday life of the Germans after the Second World War.
The new beginning is marked by unemployment and social misery, and black-market trade, occupation and the vanquished. Fritz Eschen explores the life and survival in the ruins of Berlin since 1945 and can be any sector of public life. It documents rubble clearance and reconstruction, war and the end of work, but also the flourishing cultural life, artists, strollers, lovers and children playing again and again as the real masters of the city.
His photographs are important historical documents free of pathos and dogmatism and even unique in its unspectacular behavior.
Fritz Eschen is first and foremost as a chronicler of everyday life - sober, almost detached and distanced from the social environment. With sensitivity, knowledge and accuracy, he shows both hope and misery, resignation and departure of a company that sought to re-locate. Staying in his photographs, especially moments, moods and Situations to life, which fade over time in the memory more and more.
The politics of the day, but the new defining political or historical factors - the division into four sectors, the blockade of West Berlin as a reaction to the currency reform, the airlift and the creation of two German states and the consequent hardening of the Cold War - are at best a external frame of reference of his photographs.
C / O Berlin presents in cooperation with the German photo library, Dresden, about 120 photographs from the complete works of Fritz Eschen. An exhibition catalog will be Lehmstedt Verlag.
is the first time at an exhibition C / O Berlin, along with culture touch together an app that shows the current state of the places on the historical images, and included additional historical information. Fritz Eschen was C / O Berlin is continuing its series of contemporary history photographs, in which has already been the life work of Roger Melis shown.
Fritz Eschen, born 1900 in Berlin, is one of the most important German documentary and portrait photographers. In 1919 he completed an apprenticeship and gained his first professional experience. Although he was self-taught photographic, decided in 1928 to work as a freelance photojournalist for agencies such as Associated Press, and Defot Neofot-Fotag. survived
Despite his Jewish background he, unlike some of his family members, the period of National Socialism, as he was saved by his second marriage to Gertrude Thumm from deportation. In 1933 he was expelled from the Reich Association of the German press. Despite this prohibition was Fritz Eschen occasional orders from U.S. agencies and the German State Railways. From 1945 he was again working as a freelance photojournalist and photographed for virtually all of Berlin's newspapers and magazines.
Link: The exhibition is also a book: "Berlin under the temporary roof: Photographs 1945-1955 [Hardcover]" book from Amazon.de from 1952 to 1954 he was picture editor of the Neue Zeitung. After this period he published mainly books, some of which included commissioned works, some freelance work.
was another focus of his interest in the lively cultural scene in Berlin, which was formed again after 1945 and their numerous representatives he portrayed. Fritz Eschen died in September 1964 on a trip report in Melk, Austria. His legacy of 90,000 photographs, mostly in medium format, is being supervised by the German archival photo library.
Fritz Eschen. Berlin under the temporary roof
Photographs 1945-1955
Exhibition 7th May to 19 June 2011
Opening 6 May 2011
Öffnungszeiten täglich . 11 bis 20 Uhr
Eintritt 10 Euro . ermäßigt 5 Euro
Katalog Herausgegeben von Mathias Bertram und Jens Bove
176 Seiten . 154 ganzseitige Abbildungen
24,90 Euro
Veranstalter C/O Berlin
International Forum For Visual Dialogues
Ort C/O Berlin im Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36 10117 Berlin
www.co-berlin.com
Förderer Hauptstadtkulturfonds . Weberbank
Unterstützer Hotel Bogota . Dinamix
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