DFA Podcast #22.2 | Willy Zielke - Photography and Nazi Psychiatry

DFA#22.2 Willy Zielke - Photography and Nazi Psychiatry

Willy Zielke (1902 - 1989) is an important photographer and film avant-gardist of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1929, he became a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner, now the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie.

The second part of the podcast on Willy Zielke first deals with his groundbreaking photographs and his participation in FiFo, the legendary Werkbund exhibition Film and Photography in Stuttgart in 1929.

Corinna Weidner then talks to Dieter Hinrichs about Zielke's fate in the mills of Nazi psychiatry, how his art helped him survive and how Leni Riefenstahl exploited Zielke's genius for her fame even after his death.

The photographer Dieter Hinrichs initiated the rediscovery of Willy Zielke in Germany 40 years ago. The latter posthumously bequeathed him his previously unpublished memoirs. Hinrichs has made passages from it available for this podcast, entitled ANGST.

http://www.dieter-hinrichs.com

60 min