PEWOs Report on the Situation for Youth

Peter Woelck

Peter Woelck (1948–2010) studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Following graduation, he worked as a photographer for cultural offices, newspapers, publishers, television, and various larger companies in East Germany. Parallel to the commissioned works, he also made many independent pieces in the areas of social reporting and architectural photography: views of the construction of the Berlin Television Tower and the Friedrichstadt-Palast, portraits of the rural population in the Erz Mountains and of street workers in Leipzig during the 1960s, photos of dance competitions and musical events in the 1970s up to his documentation of the raves of the early 1990s. The exhibition PEWO’s Report on the Situation for Youth is the second undertaking on the part of the ‘AG Woelck’ (Klein/Klotzek/Schmitz) to present segments of the photographer’s extensive archive. It shows a cross-section of Woelck’s observations of various different scenes and contexts of youth culture against the background of the social upheaval of the past few decades.