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Jim Rakete was born on 1 January, 1951 in Berlin, Germany, is a photographer, filmmaker and writer.. Discover Jim Rakete's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

Popular As Günther Rakete
Occupation photographer, filmmaker and writer.
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 1 January 1951
Birthday 1 January
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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2019

As the student movement extended to Germany in the late 60s, Rakete brought his eye and camera to document the people, settings and discussions emerging at the time; he was a photojournalist by day and musicians’ photographer by night. By his early twenties he was working for German newspapers while keeping on shooting album band covers. Between 1975 and 1976 Rakete developed several magazines for Bauer Verlag Munich while commuting between Munich and Berlin.

(Jim Rakete is) a photographer who over a period of thirty years has photographed other people with a unique kind of love, and who allows them to reveal themselves to him without holding anything back. You can’t hold anything back when faced with someone who doesn’t judge. You can feel his openness in these photos…. His book is a diary of feelings and relationships with people he has met. You can feel that he gives something to, rather than takes something away from those he photographs.

2018

In the meantime, Spliff and the Fabrik doubled in size the roster of artists: the studios were slowly transforming into a veritable Rock ‘n’ Roll hot shop, with new releases by Interzone and the Edo Zanki Band. The Fabrik studios ran ceaselessly with Rakete developing campaigns, shooting record covers or posters by day, while musicians and producers sent out banners and press material across Berlin and German media at night.

2010

In 2010, Rakete documented conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker.

2006

In 2006, as chief consultant Rakete develops the art magazine Modernica, a supplement of German newspaper Die Welt dealing with contemporary art with its main focus on photography, design and architecture.

2005

In 2005, Rakete collaborated with designer Ulf Meyer zu Küindorf and curator Mark Gisbourne on the catalogue Berlin Art Now, published by Thames and Hudson. The English publication includes artists as John Bock, Tacita Dean, Jonathan Meese, Monica Bonvicini, Bernhard Martin and Yehudit Sasportas.

2001

Rakete had extended living and production periods between Los Angeles and Hamburg until his return to Berlin in 2001, where he continues to work in film, photography, writing, theater, music, and production.

In 2001 Rakete moves back to Berlin establishing his new working Studio in Kreuzberg. Between 2003 and 2004 he served as advisor for visual design of German political magazine Cicero. Similar to The New Yorker, Cicero allowed Rakete to combine his passion for people and politics, contributing with centerfold photo essays. Rakete's first reportage for Cicero was of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's trip to the White House to express his stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The photographs were all black & white and primarily shot on a large plate Lintof camera. Rakete shot for Cicero for five more editions; personalities included Angela Merkel, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Mikhail Gorbachev, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Otto Schily.

1997

With his first 1997 exhibit in Hamburg's Galerie Barlach, Rakete's work begins to regularly appear in international galleries.

1989

Soon after the Fabrik's closure, Rakete began to almost exclusively shoot commercials and fashion spreads. In 1989, Rakete flew to Los Angeles to shoot a record video and album cover for Tangerine Dream's Melrose. A year later, Rakete eventually rented a house in Hollywood, splitting his working year between the West Coast, Hamburg and Berlin, shooting video-clips, commercials, documentaries and fashion folders. During this period he befriended and photographed international artists, writers, film stars and directors.

1987

Meanwhile, Rakete had met the punk band Die Ärzte and put them in touch with CBS. Die Ärzte went on to be one of Germany's most successful bands. This was the final chapter of Fabrik Rakete, which was finally closed off in 1987. Spliff went on producing music through a new venture. Rakete left the producing desk to fully focus on writing and photography full-time except in 1988-89, when he funded label ACT Music along with former president of Warner Bros. Europe Siegfried Loch and Ideal's lead singer Annette Humpe. The label, which specializes in European Jazz, is active today.

1985

In 1985 Rakete's management was chosen to produce Band für Afrika, the German counterpart of Band Aid. The resulting single record was written by Herbert Grönemeyer and Wolfgang Niedeken and performed by 27 different German bands and musicians, including Alphaville, BAP, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Nena, Peter Maffay, Spliff and Udo Lindenberg. Band für Afrika gathered over 150 million Deutschmarks.

1983

The Fabrik had long moved to Berlin's Oranienplatz when the members of Spliff started producing emerging artists. Their first production was the 1983 international chart success Nena, Gabriele "Nena" Kerner's first album. An instant hit, the Nena Band toured countless European TVs and live stages, while the album's second single 99 Luftballons peaked #1 in music charts worldwide including Australia, Japan, Austria, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Rakete says about Nena, "she could get anything across without explaining… That's an ability that is very rare. I do not know anyone of that caliber".

1980

Through a chance encounter Rakete came across the remarkable voice of a sheer powerful 4-octave miracle: Nina Hagen. Rakete took her first pictures in the then barren, newly funded Fabrik Rakete. Shortly thereafter, CBS, with which Hagen had already signed a recording deal, appointed Rakete as band manager for the newly formed Nina Hagen Band to focus on the launch of the eponymous album in 1978. Successful performances in the Quartier Latin and airplay on German Radio promoted their debut record, which eventually peaked at number eleven in Germany, while also gathering substantial success in Austria and the Netherlands. Nina Hagen Band was certified gold in France and it went double platinum in Germany. As Nina unexpectedly quit the project, the band was orphan of its main member just as the demand for appearances exploded, with the band still under the CBS deal. Eventually, Rakete, Hagen and the band agreed to record their second and last album, Unbehagen (1979). The album went gold in Germany and France, selling over 300.000 copies in Germany alone. Despite Hagen's departure, Rakete consolidated his bond with the band, which eventually went on performing under the name Spliff. The new band (which also included members of rock theater group Lok Kreuzberg) and Rakete embarked on the writing of a small Rock Opera in the form of a radio show, using the AFN legend Rik Delisle as host, Aussie performer Alf Klimek "Klimax" as singer and with the later addition of Dutch singer Josee van Irsel. The Spliff Radio Show premiered live at Kant-Kino on May 2, 1980. Tours ensued, and in 1982 the band released their greatest success, 85555, named after the record's catalogue number. Their following album, Herzlichen Glückwunsch! was released in the later months of the same year.

1977

In 1977, Rakete rented a 300 square meter loft in the heart of Berlin's borough of Kreuzberg. Fabrik Rakete, a creative laboratory for music, photography and art, was born. In the two shooting spaces that were built, Rakete's work became crucial for the advancement of the burgeoning German New Wave.

1951

Günther "Jim" Rakete (German: [dʒɪm ʁakeːtə]; born 1 January 1951 in Berlin, Germany) is a photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker, writer and producer based in Berlin.