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                                                          <h1> Tom
                                                          Neitzke </h1>
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                                                          <h1>Madonna
                                                          hat geholfen</h1>
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                                                          Einladung zur
                                                          Finissage am 
                                                          Freitag,
                                                          22.12. ab 19
                                                          Uhr</b></font></div>
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color="#c0c0c0"><b>Cordial invitation to the finissage on Friday, 22
                                                          December from
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                                                          gutes und
                                                          gesundes neues
                                                          Jahr!</b></div>
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                                                          <div
class="moz-forward-container">Tom Neitzke wurde 1957 in Husum geboren
                                                          und ging Ende
                                                          der Siebziger
                                                          für eine Weile
                                                          in die USA.
                                                          Nach seiner
                                                          Rückkehr aus
                                                          Kalifornien
                                                          begann er, in
                                                          Kreuzberg mit
                                                          einer
                                                          Kleinbildkamera
                                                          zu
                                                          experimentieren.
                                                          Das war der
                                                          Anfang. In den
                                                          achtziger
                                                          Jahren gab es
                                                          ein Motto:
                                                          avanti
                                                          dilettanti! <br>
                                                          Mitte der
                                                          Achtzigerjahre
                                                          öffnete die
                                                          Bar Madonna in
                                                          der Wiener
                                                          Straße in
                                                          Kreuzberg,  wo
                                                          Tom Neitzke
                                                          als Barkeeper
                                                          arbeitete.
                                                          Mittlerweile
                                                          arbeitete er
                                                          mit einer
                                                          Mittelformatkamera,
                                                          begann
                                                          deutlich
                                                          ernsthafter zu
                                                          fotografieren.<br>
                                                          Das Madonna
                                                          entwickelte
                                                          sich zu einem
                                                          Zentrum für
                                                          Musiker und
                                                          andere
                                                          Kreative:
                                                          Maler,
                                                          Filmschaffende
                                                          und
                                                          Schreibende.
                                                          Und viel
                                                          Szene. Die Bar
                                                          wurde zum
                                                          Kreuzberger
                                                          Gegengewicht
                                                          zur
                                                          Schöneberger
                                                          Szene.<br>
                                                          Das war der
                                                          Ausgangspunkt.<br>
                                                          Im Madonna
                                                          entwickelten
                                                          sich
                                                          Freundschaften,
                                                          aber auch die
                                                          ersten
                                                          kommerziellen
                                                          Aufträge für
                                                          Plattenverlage
                                                          und
                                                          Filmproduktionen
                                                          sowie
                                                          Modefotografie.
                                                          Und immer
                                                          wieder freie
                                                          Arbeiten,
                                                          Portraits,
                                                          Inszenierungen.<br>
                                                          Die
                                                          Ausstellung
                                                          zeigt einen
                                                          Querschnitt
                                                          dieser
                                                          Arbeiten und
                                                          bringt uns so
                                                          auf eine
                                                          Zeitreise
                                                          durch die
                                                          Achtziger- und
                                                          frühen
                                                          Neunzigerjahre.
                                                          Wir sehen
                                                          Ikonen der
                                                          Kreuzberger
                                                          Szene dieser
                                                          Zeit, aber
                                                          auch viele
                                                          Gesichter, die
                                                          Zeitzeugen von
                                                          damals bekannt
                                                          sein sollten.<br>
                                                          Tom Neitzke
                                                          begann dann in
                                                          den 90ern eine
                                                          Karriere im
                                                          Bereich
                                                          Fernsehdesign
                                                          und wurde
                                                          später
                                                          Produzent und
                                                          Regisseur für
                                                          Imagefilme.<br>
                                                          2019 bis 2021
                                                          leitete er das
                                                          Filmdepartment
                                                          eines großen
                                                          Biotech-Unternehmens
                                                          und war
                                                          Initiator und
                                                          Direktor des
                                                          International
                                                          Rare Disease
                                                          Filmfestival
                                                          Berlin.<br>
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class="moz-forward-container"> Tom Neitzke was born in Husum in 1957 and
                                                          went to the
                                                          USA for a
                                                          while in the
                                                          late
                                                          seventies.
                                                          After
                                                          returning from
                                                          California, he
                                                          began
                                                          experimenting
                                                          with a 35 mm
                                                          camera in
                                                          Kreuzberg.
                                                          That was the
                                                          beginning. In
                                                          the eighties
                                                          there was a
                                                          motto: avanti
                                                          dilettanti! <br>
                                                          In the
                                                          mid-eighties,
                                                          the Bar
                                                          Madonna opened
                                                          on Wiener
                                                          Straße in
                                                          Kreuzberg,
                                                          where Tom
                                                          Neitzke worked
                                                          as a
                                                          bartender. In
                                                          the meantime,
                                                          he was working
                                                          with a medium
                                                          format camera
                                                          and began to
                                                          photograph
                                                          much more
                                                          seriously.<br>
                                                          The Madonna
                                                          developed into
                                                          a centre for
                                                          musicians and
                                                          other creative
                                                          people:
                                                          painters,
                                                          film-makers
                                                          and writers.
                                                          And a lot of
                                                          the Kreuzberg
                                                          scene. The bar
                                                          became the
                                                          Kreuzberg
                                                          counterweight
                                                          to the
                                                          Schöneberg
                                                          scene.<br>
                                                          That was the
                                                          starting
                                                          point.<br>
                                                          Friendships
                                                          developed at
                                                          Madonna, but
                                                          also the first
                                                          commercial
                                                          commissions
                                                          for record
                                                          publishers and
                                                          film
                                                          productions as
                                                          well as
                                                          fashion
                                                          photography.<br>
                                                          And again and
                                                          again free
                                                          works,
                                                          portraits,
                                                          stagings.<br>
                                                          The exhibition
                                                          shows a
                                                          cross-section
                                                          of these works
                                                          and thus takes
                                                          us on a
                                                          journey
                                                          through time
                                                          in the
                                                          eighties and
                                                          early
                                                          nineties. We
                                                          see icons of
                                                          the Kreuzberg
                                                          scene of that
                                                          time, but also
                                                          many faces
                                                          that should be
                                                          familiar to
                                                          contemporary
                                                          witnesses of
                                                          that time.<br>
                                                          Tom Neitzke
                                                          then began a
                                                          career in
                                                          television
                                                          design in the
                                                          90s and later
                                                          became a
                                                          producer and
                                                          director for
                                                          image films.<br>
                                                          later became a
                                                          producer and
                                                          director for
                                                          image films.<br>
                                                          From 2019 to
                                                          2021, he
                                                          headed the
                                                          film
                                                          departement of
                                                          a large
                                                          biotech
                                                          company and
                                                          was the
                                                          initiator and
                                                          director of
                                                          the
                                                          International
                                                          Rare Disease
                                                          Film Festival
                                                          Berlin.<br>
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