The exhibition
Heldenplätze
Club views by Volker Schrank
There are literality thousands of sports clubs recorded in
the German statistics - indispensable places of the local community - from
Kolbermoor in upper Bavaria to Emmerich on the lower Rhine.
As different
as the sports association - the ball game club - the gymnastics club - may
be, their architecture and design exhibit common features which are to
be found wherever you go.
The photographer Volker Schrank presents the sports clubs where the heroes
of his youth started to play, the football champions of 1974, including
the clubs of Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer, Paul Breitner, Rainer Bonhof,
Uli Hoeneß, Bernd Hölzenbein, Jürgen Grabowski, Gerd Müller, Günter Netzer,
Wolfgang Overath und Berti Vogts.
The chosen perspective is demonstratively matter of fact, the rooms and
the playing fields deserted. The direct juxtaposition of Interior and Exterior
draws attention to the aesthetic ambivalence. However, the reduction of
the motifs to a setting acts as a catalyser for the emotions of the observer
who feels complied to continue the series from his own memories and experiences.
bildkultur presents the series Heldenplätze as an exhibition:
38 Fine-Art Digital Prints,
Giclée-print on deckle-edged
paper
Picture format 600 x 600 mm
© Volker Schrank / bildkultur 2006
The places
Sportclub München von 1906 e.V. Franz
Beckenbauer
Eintracht Emmerich 09/20 e.V. Rainer Bonhof
Sportverein – Deutsche Jugendkraft Kolbermoor e. V. Paul
Breitner
Sportvereinigung Porz-Gremberghoven e.V. Bernd Cullmann
Spielvereinigung Sterkrade 06/07 e.V. Dieter Herzog
Biebericher Fußballverein 1902 e.V. Jürgen
Grabowski
Ballspielverein 'Grün Weiß' Mönchengladbach 1926
e.V. Jupp Heynckes
Turn- und Sportverein 05 Dehrn e.V. Bernd Hölzenbein
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Schwarz-Rot Ulm e.V. Uli
Hoeneß
Sport-Club 1930 Bardenberg e.V. Jupp Kapellmann
Verein für Leibesübungen Schwerte 1919/21 e.V. Wolfgang
Kleff
Turn- und Sportverein Haar e.V. Sepp Maier
Turn- und Sportverein 1861 Nördlingen e.V. Gerd Müller
1. Fußballclub Mönchengladbach 1894 e.V. Günter
Netzer
Sportverein Gelsenkirchen – Hessler 06 e.V. Norbert
Nigbur
Siegburger Sportverein 04 e.V. Wolfgang Overath
Fußballclub Sportfreunde München e.V. Hans
Georg Schwarzenbeck
Verein für Rasenspiele Büttgen 1912 e.V. Berti
Vogts
Verein für Spiel und Sport Borussia Brand 08 e.V. Herbert
Wimmer
The artist
Volker Schrank
lives
and works in Stuttgart. In 1999, he won the Award of the Federation of
Independent Photo Designers. In 2000, he received a scholarship from the
Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg.
He became well-known for his collection Stars of Truth, which
portrayed Germany's major television newscasters in a new artistic way.
He unwaveringly devotes himself to the photographic exploration of myths.
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