Photo archive of Dieter Bauer

Born in Schweinfurt in 1954.

1971 to 1973 training as a typographer in Nuremberg, during the same period autodidactic photography and first publications of pictures. 1973 to 1976 photographer at the "Nürnberger Zeitung". 1977 to 1979 photographer at the "Abendzeitung" in Nuremberg. 1980 to 1983 photo reporter for BILD and "BILD am Sonntag" at the editorial office concerned with the parliament in Bonn. 1983 to 1997 photo reporter at the stern, following recommendation by Thomas Höpker. 1998 to 2010 photo reporter at FOCUS.

Including partly exclusive image material of the protagonists – beyond the official reporting taking place –, the pictures document the Bonn and Berlin Republics with all their players and stakeholders and the domestic and foreign political events of the time. Dieter Bauer accompanied the Federal Chancellors Schmidt, Kohl, Schröder and Angela Merkel, as well as numerous well-known politicians on journeys abroad. He also reported from areas of crisis and war worldwide.

The archive comprises around 500,000 pictures (negatives, slides, prints, born-digital photos) from the years 1980 to 2010. It was acquired from Dieter Bauer against the background of the takeover of the stern Photo Archive by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Its cataloguing and digitization are in their early stages.

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