Exhibition: Willi Römer — Life in the City of Berlin 1919—1933

In 1903 Willy Römer began an apprenticeship at the Berliner Illustrations-Gesellschaft being the first German company to specialise in producing press photos: He was subsequently employed by various picture agencies in Berlin and Paris where he had the opportunity to learn photography from scratch. Having served as a solider from 1915 to 1918 Römer returned to Berlin in November 1918 to take over the news picture agency Photothek from one of his colleagues. Henceforth his pictures were published under his name. In 1920 Willy Römer entered into partnership with Walter Bernstein who would take care of the business matters of their shared enterprise. The Photothek Römer & Bernstein emerged as one of the leading news picture agencies in the Weimar Republic.

In large part Willy Römer’s oeuvre dates to the time between 1905 and 1935, with the years 1919 to 1929 being a major focus in his work. The photographer’s legacy and that of his news picture agency Photothek covers the history of the Weimar Republic and documents the political events from the November revolution of 1918 to the Nazi’s rise to power and the burning of the Reichstag in 1933.

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