Jim Rakete
| Jim Rakete | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 January 1951 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | photographer, filmmaker and writer. |
Günther "Jim" Rakete (German: [dʒɪm ʁakeːtə]; born 1 January 1951 in Berlin, Germany.) is a photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker, writer and producer based in Berlin.
Rakete shot numerous personalities from the German and international music and film scene and politics.
His managerial work behind the award-winning musical acts Nina Hagen Band, Interzone, Nena and Die Ärzte made Rakete a decisive figure in the burgeoning German New Wave.
Rakete had extended living and production periods between Los Angeles and Hamburg until his return to Berlin in 2001, where he continues to work in film, photography, writing, theater, music, and production.
Rakete spent his childhood in West Berlin. At four years old he was given his first camera, an Agfa box camera, similar to a Brownie, which accompanied him for years. Rakete continued photographing throughout his school years; fascinated by the mechanisms of photography, he spent a good part of his youth working in the darkroom. At age seventeen, he began to work as a photojournalist for local dailies, agencies and magazines, while still delivering newspapers to raise the money to buy his first drum kit. His early band efforts lead him towards his personal pathway into the music world.
As the student movement extended to Germany in the late 60s, Rakete brought his eye and camera to document the people, settings and discussions emerging at the time; he was a photojournalist by day and musicians’ photographer by night. By his early twenties he was working for German newspapers while keeping on shooting album band covers. Between 1975 and 1976 Rakete developed several magazines for Bauer Verlag Munich while commuting between Munich and Berlin.
In 1977, Rakete rented a 300 square meter loft in the heart of Berlin's borough of Kreuzberg.Fabrik Rakete, a creative laboratory for music, photography and art, was born. In the two shooting spaces that were built, Rakete's work became crucial for the advancement of the burgeoning German New Wave.
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