The photographer with the flat cap

… and its cameras. A treatise by Manfred Nippe. The “Rolleiflex 2.8 F” in the Berlin Sports Museum is an icon of photography. In the 1930s, the two-eye camera from Braunschweig revolutionised the world of photography; no professional photographer, photo reporter or sports photographer could do without it. Helmut Newton took his master shots with […]
The Picasso with the Camera – Memories of the Sports Photographer Heinrich von der Becke

An exhibition at the Olympiapark Berlin. By Manfred Nippe. With a small exhibition in the atrium of the former “House of German Sport” on the grounds of the Berlin Olympic Park, the Berlin Sports Museum commemorates the work of the sports photographer Heinrich von der Becke, who died in 1997. The “photographer with the cap” […]
Exhibition “Heinrich von der Becke” in the Olympic Park Berlin 2008

Opening speech on November 8, 2008 in the atrium of the former “House of German Sports Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear Mr. von der Becke, dear Martina, dear Gerd, I see many old familiar photos with which I grew up in 50 years of sports administration and honorary office and which remind me of Heinrich […]