To mark the 100th birthday of Horst Schlesiger, the Stadtmuseum im Prinz-Max-Palais will be presenting around 300 photographs from March 29, 2025 in the special exhibition "Scenes of a city. The Karlsruhe photographer Horst Schlesiger" will present around 300 photographs.
Hardly any other photographer documented life in Karlsruhe as comprehensively and multifaceted as Horst Schlesiger (1925-1993). For four decades, from 1950 to 1990, he worked as a freelance photojournalist for the "Badische Neueste Nachrichten" newspaper. During this long period, he was out and about in Karlsruhe with his camera almost every day. With around 70,000 published photographs, he accompanied and shaped the local reporting of the "BNN" in particular.
The photographs reflect the public, political and social life of the city, but also the everyday life, leisure and working world of the people who are visible here in a special way. Atmospheric nature and landscape photographs, architectural photos and pictures with unusual perspectives, reflections or the play of light and shadow complete the selection. Horst Schlesiger is not only recognizable as a photographic chronicler of Karlsruhe, but also as a photographic artist.
