Benno Wundshammer (pseudonym: Heinrich Benedikt; born April 11, 1913 in Cologne; † October 1986 in Rottach-Egern) was a German journalist and press photographer. Wundshammer completed an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher and gravure photographer in Cologne from 1933 to 1936. He worked as a journalist (at Weltbild), as a sports reporter, war reporter and journalist (e.g. Pinguin, Ruf, Bild, Revue). From 1937 he worked as a reporter for the Reich Sports Association in Berlin. As a member of an Air Force propaganda company, he was one of the most important and well-known photo reporters and reporters in the service of the National Socialist regime during the Second World War, alongside Hilmar Pabel, Hanns Hubmann and Alfred Tritschler. From 1942 to 1945 he was part of the editorial team of the NS Foreign propaganda illustrated Signal. After the war he was able to continue his career as a reporter for the magazine Quick and editor-in-chief of the celebrity magazine Revue (until 1952). With his photos of post-war celebrities such as Konrad Adenauer, Franz Josef Strauss, Romy Schneider and Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach, he made a significant contribution to shaping German press photography. He also worked as a fashion photographer and dealt early with the possibilities of color photography. A large part of his photographic estate is in the possession of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Picture Archive in Berlin. The exhibition “Propaganda Photographer in World War II: Benno Wundshammer” (November 2014 - February 2015) in the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst showed his life's work in the context of contemporary history. The exhibition catalog with examples of Wundhammer's photo reports since the early 1930s analyzes the working methods of a German war correspondent.
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