Astrid Kirchherr

Astrid Kirchherr ( born May 20, 1938 in Hamburg ) is a German photographer and artist. Your photos of the Beatles can be found in the books and publications worldwide.

Life

Astrid Kirchherr graduated in 1960 graduated from the School of Fashion, Textile, Graphic Design and Advertising (now Department Design HAW Hamburg) and became in 1959 assistant by Reinhart Wolf. In October 1960, she was taken away by her then boyfriend Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer in the Kaiser cellar in Hamburg, where they the Beatles - then with Pete Best on drums - met. From Kirchherr come the first professional photos of the Beatles, she made in early November 1960 by them.

You fell in love with Stuart Sutcliffe, which they first mushroom head hairstyle: cut (English mop -top) along the lines Vollmer. Although John Lennon laughed until about the hairstyle, settled with Paul McCartney but in October 1961 by Jürgen Vollmer also cut his hair accordingly.

Sutcliffe died in 1962 in Kirch Herr's arms from a brain hemorrhage.

Later Kirchherr worked as a freelance photographer and was hired by Stern to photograph the Beatles in 1964 during the filming to Yeah Yeah Yeah. In 1967 she married the drummer Gibson Kemp and withdrew from public life. A photo on the cover of George Harrison's album Wonderwall Music was one of her last published. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a homemaker and in various professions.

The end of 2011 she offered her complete photo archive plus publishing rights on the auction house Guernsey 's for sale. The images were withdrawn but before the start of the auction and sold privately for an undisclosed sum.

Today, Astrid Kirchherr lives in Hamburg. She was married twice and has no children.

In popular culture

In the movie Backbeat in 1994, which is about the early days of the Beatles, their person plays a significant role. The role of Herr's church took over the actress Sheryl Lee.