Verlängert bis 02 Februar 2025 !!! - Stars und Prominente - von Peter & Björn Bischoff

Extended until 02 February 2025 !!! - Stars and Celebrities - by Peter & Björn Bischoff

by Markus Lippeck

Extension of the exhibition until February 2, 2025

Radio interview with Peter Bischoff on Bremen 2 on Friday 10.01.2025 from 6 pm



Click HERE to go directly to the interview!

Exhibition “Stars and Celebrities” is extended – great public interest

The photo exhibition "Stars and Celebrities - by Peter & Björn Bischoff" , which has been on display at the SCHLUH.art gallery in Worpswede since September 1, 2024, has not only received an overwhelming response from the public, but has also become a cultural highlight in the region. Due to the high demand and continued visitor interest, the exhibition will now be extended until February 2, 2025 .

This extension gives even more art and photography enthusiasts the opportunity to immerse themselves in the impressive world of Peter and Björn Bischoff's work. The exhibition presents a unique collection of over 382 photographs that document decades of German media history and preserve the authentic charm of analogue photography.

Another highlight awaits all interested parties on January 10, 2025 : From 6:00 p.m., Peter Bischoff will give exciting insights into his decades of work with international stars and celebrities in an interview on the radio station BREMEN 2. Dr. Martin Busch will host the one-hour program. Look forward to inspiring stories and personal anecdotes that also give a glimpse behind the scenes of the photographs.

The SCHLUH.art gallery is looking forward to welcoming more visitors and warmly invites you to experience this extraordinary exhibition. At the same time, the non-profit association Schluh.art eV is calling on sponsors and supporters to continue to promote cultural work. Thanks to generous contributions, it is possible to realize such important exhibitions and keep the rich history of photography and journalism alive.

We would like to thank all visitors and supporters so far and look forward to the coming weeks, in which Galerie Schluh will continue to present itself as a place of artistic dialogue and inspiration.

Further and more detailed information about Peter and Björn Bischoff and the exhibition can be found HERE

The exhibition has the character of a documentation with over 56 panels which are described HERE and 382 photos. Accompanying the exhibition you can find the exact image descriptions HERE .

Please note: The usage rights for most of the photos shown here are held by Getty Images - licensing only available there.

The photo above shows Peter Bischoff with Udo Jürgens on a reporting trip to Jamaica in 1978


STARS AND CELEBRITIES
BY PETER + BJÖRN BISCHOFF:


Peter Bischoff during a report with Roger Moore ("James Bond") in 1979 in New Delhi / India
for the movie "The Sea Wolves Are Coming"

The photographer and journalist, who has lived in Worpswede since 1983, has photographed many stars in his hundreds of photo reports around the world since 1968, thereby writing a piece of journalistic history in German show business. Until 1998, his son Björn also traveled around the world for reports.


The team of the Pro7 series filming the first episode in Rio de Janairo/Brazil -
 in 3 years, 29,000 flight kilometers were covered in 29 countries
 
On his many trips to over 130 countries around the world, Peter Bischoff (born 1941) traveled around the globe almost 100 times to capture over three million photos of stars and celebrities. Back then, the films were still entirely analogue, often sent to Worpswede, developed and distributed to the press by express. Millions of copies of his photos were published in a wide variety of media. In addition to many self-organized and freely financed reports and home stories, he also accompanied well-known television series such as 50 episodes of the ZDF cult series "Traumschiff" or "Glückliche Reise" from PRO 7. This gave him close and trusting, sometimes even friendly contacts with many stars such as Heide Keller, Siegfried Rauch and Thomas Fritsch. His circle of friends also included Heino, Roy Black, Daliah Lavi, Harald Juhnke, Günter Pfitzmann, Rudi Carrell, Udo Jürgens, Siegfried & Roy and many others. His special way of working was to cultivate personal and trusting relationships with celebrities. Motto: Not everything you know needs to be published! On the sidelines of the filming of the many television series, Peter Bischoff experienced dozens of strange, unforgettable stories.


The ZDF Traumschiff team with Heide Keller, Siegfried Rauch and Horst Naumann during the filming of the 50th episode in 2004 in Vancouver/Canada




He was there when Tony Marshall became an honorary citizen of Bora Bora in the South Seas, when an actor fell off a horse in Arizona and down a slope, when other actors were arrested for “currency smuggling” in Australia, or when they were able to escape from a breaking ice floe in Greenland by helicopter at the last minute.



Exclusive photo of Björn Bischoff that went around the world:
Heino visits "Rolling Stones" boss Mick Jagger in his dressing room at a concert in Cologne - 1995


AGENTUR BISCHOFF:

The Bischoff agency has been run by Peter's son Björn (born in 1966) since 2014 ( www.bjoern-bischoff.de ). It was based in the premises of the SCHLUH gallery at Schluh 71 until the beginning of 2023. The extension to the building was built in the 1990s especially for the agency's needs to create space for the millions of negatives and slides. Around 400,000 of these can still be licensed for publication in digital form through the international photo agency Getty Images.

Björn Bischoff on a reporting trip with Freddy Quinn in New York, 1998

 


We would like to thank the sponsors of the exhibition for their kind support:

Hamme Hütte

ITLIP IT-Solutions

Volksbank eG Worpswede

Cooling Huus

Agentur Bischoff

Worpswede24

gooddays.appartments


The usage rights for most of the photos shown are held by Getty Images - licensing only available there.

The photos cannot be purchased here and licenses are not available here!
They will only be shown as part of the exhibition from September 1, 2024 to January 5, 2025.
The executive body of the exhibition is the non-profit art association Schluh.art eV

Any form of unauthorized distribution or use is prohibited.

ATTENTION: For licensing reasons, we ask you to respect the photography ban in the entire premises of the Schluh Gallery!!!