IMPORTANT GERMAN PHOTOBOOK TITLE from 1991 with the fantastic pictures from East Berlin between 1983 and 1986 by well-known East-German photographer Karin Wieckhorst. Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, Deutschland im Fotobuch, page 339. Signed (!) by one of the authors (Jayne-Ann Igel). I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. THIS IS THE VERY FIRST PHOTOBOOK AUCTION ON CATAWIKI - dedicated entirely to the world of the former "DDR"/"GDR" ("GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" or "EAST GERMANY") which existed from 1949 to 1990. Still largely undiscovered and unexplored, this field offers a wealth of fascinating discoveries for collectors. 5Uhr30.com presents exceptional works by renowned and emerging artists, survey works, compelling monographs, as well as extraordinarily rare small vintage catalogues, vintage children’s books and vintage factory photobooks; signed publications, posters, and much more. GREAT PHOTO PUBLICATION - with photos by Karin Wieckhorst and text by Jayne-Ann Igel ("Versteinerungen") and by Barbara Köhler ("Berlin Berlin"). Like always we guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance, and of course, combined shipping - worldwide. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T MISS THIS UNIQUE CHANCE! Brought to you exclusively by 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany. Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig. 1991. First edition, first printing. Softcover. 229 x 207 mm. 64 pages. 47 photos. Photos: Karin Wieckhorst. Text: Jayne-Ann Igel, Barbara Köhler, Volker Frank. Layout: Peter Thieme. Text in German. Condition: Inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside quite fresh and better than usual; little trace of use. Overall fine condition. Scarce photo publication from the legendary photo series by Connewitzer Verlagsbuchhandlung. "Karin Wieckhorst, born in 1942 in Holzhausen, is a German photographer. From 1957 to 1960 she completed an apprenticeship as a gravure retoucher at the Druckhaus Einheit Leipzig. From 1965 to 2007 she worked as a photographer and in the photo lab of the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. In 1966 she passed her skilled-worker examination as a photographer, and from 1969 to 1973 she studied photography by correspondence at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) in Leipzig under Horst Thorau. From 1984 to 1989 she was also involved in editing the independent samizdat art magazine Anschlag. Wieckhorst became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in 1985 and of the Leipzig Association of Visual Artists in 2007. Since 2007 she has worked as a freelance photographer. From 2006 to 2014 she served on the jury of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. She became well known for the series “Encounters in Studios”, which portrayed nonconformist catalysts of the GDR art scene within the productive context of their working spaces and artistic output. Her earlier projects include körperbehindert (“physically disabled,” 1980–1985), the comparative urban survey OSTBERLIN 1983–1986, Berliner Wiederholung (“Berlin Repetition,” 1998), as well as the cycle FREMDE. Asylum in Saxony (1992–1993). These also reflect an interest in social issues within her living environment. Later, on her travels to the Kola Peninsula, Iran and Mongolia, China, Nepal, and Niger, she documented her impressions and encounters. Among her most renowned works is the photo series documenting the demolition of Leipzig’s Paulinerkirche, which had been consecrated as a university church by Martin Luther in 1545. Although it had survived the Second World War almost unscathed, it was scheduled for demolition at the request of the SED leadership. Wieckhorst regarded her documentation of the demolition as an act of protest. She photographed the explosion from the second floor of the GRASSI Museum using her 6×6 camera with an extra-long focal length. First the ridge turret toppled, then the tower and the west side of the church; finally the rose window on the front façade fell. “I just cocked the shutter and pressed it,” she later said. Her black-and-white photographs are the only existing images that recorded the extent of the destruction in detailed, large-format shots. She hid the negatives from the Stasi, who were searching for them. In early 2020 she handed over more than 2,500 photographs to the Archiv Bürgerbewegung Leipzig. These images document the upheaval and transformation processes between 1990 and 1992. They show awakening and change, stagnation and transition, fading and blossoming landscapes, as well as portraits and everyday scenes. The photographs were digitized and archivally processed in 2020 as part of the Saxon state government’s funding guideline “Revolution and Democracy.” In 2022, the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library in Leipzig acquired a series of portraits of German and Austrian authors such as Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller, and Wolfgang Hilbig, taken in the 1980s." (Wikipedia)