Robert Lebeck – Hierzulande (In this Country)

Berlin-born Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) was one of the great German photojournalists. Here in Germany brings together a selection of his reportages from Germany from 1955 to 1983.

The compilation is a photographic gem: the rebellion of a young generation in postwar Germany; East Berliners before the Wall was built shopping on Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln; Kampen on the island of Sylt, which in the 1950s developed from a fishing village into a stomping ground for the rich and beautiful; the release of the last German prisoners of war in 1955 at the Herleshausen border station; impressions of political life in the Bonn Republic; portraits of celebrities.

Robert Lebeck got close to people: he photographed when people kissed, drank and danced, but also when they cried and suffered. Anchored in our cultural memory, his photographs of full life have lost none of their relevance.

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Berlin-born Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) was one of the great German photojournalists. Hierzulande (In this Country) brings together a selection of his reportages from Germany from 1955 to 1983.

The compilation is a photographic gem: the rebellion of a young generation in post-war Germany; East Berliners shopping on Karl-Marx-Strasse in Neukölln before the Wall was built; Kampen on the island of Sylt, which in the 1950s developed from a fishing village into a stomping ground for the rich and beautiful; the release of the last German prisoners of war in 1955 at the Herleshausen border station; impressions of political life in the Bonn Republic; portraits of celebrities.

Robert Lebeck got close to people: he photographed when people kissed, drank and danced, but also when they cried and suffered. Anchored in our cultural memory, his photographs of full life have lost none of their relevance.