Herlinde Koelbl (born October 31, 1939) is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. The German Living Room was her first big hit with the general public in 1980.
Artist: http://herlindekoelbl.de/index.php
Publisher: Bucher Verlag (1980)
At that time, the self-taught woman from Munich was declared crazy. She was looking for a publisher for her idea of photographing the private rooms of normal people. Too banal, it was said. Why should people care about something they had at home? Koelbl had not yet made a name for himself, and nobody knew the people in the pictures either.
But she remained stubborn – one of her most prominent qualities – and when her illustrated book Das Deutsche Wohnzimmer was published in 1980, it fitted seamlessly into the long series of attempts from August Sander to Stefan Moses, the Germans, this self-puzzling people to understand.
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