Roger Fritz (1936 - 2021), The Beatles (tobogganing), Obertauern 1965/2018. Black/white photo print, sheet format: 15 x 22.4 cm. Edition 50, signed, dated, titled. Good condition, adhesive strip for passepartout available. biography As a photographer, he is an "objective" seismograph of social life in the second half of the 20th century. For Stern, Quick, Jours de France, Münchner Illustrierte, Vogue and Bunte, he celebrates the "celebrities" from film, music, fine art, literature and politics in an independent visual language. As an actor, filmmaker and/or producer (of around 40 films), part of this society himself, he meets the stars on film sets and hotspots with his camera at eye level. As their colleague and friend, he also gives us personal insights into their private lives. The trained baker and businessman received his first photography awards at the age of 18 (Photokina 1954 and 1956). From 1956 to 1959 he was a UFA junior student for acting and directing. At the age of 23 he co-founded the magazine "Twen" (1959). In the 1960s he assisted Gian-Carlo Menotti at the Due Mondi opera festival and Luchino Visconti in “Boccaccio 70”. In 1967 he won the Federal Film Prize for his feature film “Girls, Girls”. He acted in three Rainer Werner Fassbinder films. He ran a bar in Munich in the 1980s and 90s. Later, Roger Fritz made features on city and country life – from Las Vegas to Bavaria. In 2007 he received the Lead Award for a St. Pauli magazine report and in 2011 the German Independence Honorary Award.