1909 | Born in Ludwigshafen, Lake Constance |
1926-28 | Spoersche commercial school |
1928-1931 | Apprenticeship in photography in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland |
1931-33 | employment with AKTUELLESie company Grau in Lucerne |
| Economic crisis: no more work permit in Switzerland |
| Return to Germany |
1933-36 | Due to the political situation, emigration to Naples |
| Establishment of a department for small-format photography at the Kunsthaus Bowinkel |
| Employment at the photo studio Giorgio Sommer |
1936-37 | Tour guide in Paris, also at the World Exhibition |
1938 | Assistant in the film studios of director René Clair |
| Withdrawal of work permit for foreigners in France |
| Return to Stuttgart as "foreign German |
| Work as freelance photojournalist |
1941 | Enlistment in the German Wehrmacht as a war correspondent, deployment in the Russian campaign |
1944 | Wounded before Leningrad, hospital in Riga, transferred back to Stuttgart |
| Despite ban on photography, documentation of destruction in Stuttgart |
1945 | Portrait photography, continuation of free press work |
From 1946 | Travels (among others: Italy, France, Spain, London, Egypt, Greece, Lebanon, USA and Romania) |
| Reportages throughout the Federal Republic of Germany (e.g. 1949, 1959,1963) |
| Beginning of free and long-term cooperation with international magazines |
| and illustrated magazines, various daily, weekly and monthly newspapers |
| Documentation of the reconstruction in Germany |
| documentation of cultural life, theater and ballet photography |
| feuilletonistic photographs, experiments, exhibitions, books. |
1999 | died in Wäschenbeuren |
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| Exhibitions |
1978 | "Dr. Günther Rennert" State Opera House Stuttgart |
1982 | "Carl Orff" State Opera House Stuttgart |
1994 | "The 50s" Entrance hall of Stuttgart main station |
1995 | "The Destruction and Reconstruction" Stuttgart Main Station |
2004 | "Picture stories Hannes Kilian" House of History Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart |
2007 | "John Cranko on his 80th birthday" State Opera Stuttgart |
2009 | "Hannes Kilian photographs". Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. |
2012 | "Hannes Kilian In the Interplay of Light" Gallery Schlichtenmaier. |
| "Hannes Kilian Photographs" Kunstgebäude Stuttgart. |
2013 | "Hannes Kilian Photographs" Museum of Modern Art Passau |
2014 | "Hannes Kilian" Goethe Institute Paris |
2019 | "Hannes Kilian - Photographs from 1937 -1977" PHOTOKUNST, Berlin |