Some of you may have seen the last Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme. Benicio del Toro used a huge fountain pen from Montblanc in it. My friend Volkmar Bendig, an actor himself, had one of those. He got it from a photographer who died in a plane crash in the alps. Which sounds like a scene from Wes Anderson. Volkmars sprawling flats, he never did it below 250 square meters, were like archaeological digs. Everywhere was stuff to discover, and the proud owner ready to tell you the story behind items heaped on each other. Volkmar was born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1941. While his father was lost he survived with his mother and aunt and escaped to the west. Being born on the 4th of July, he stayed independent all his life. We met and became friends in 1985. Back then we decided that I would take his pictures for the rest of his life, in exchange for his collection of GEO magazines. As I just shot his funeral, we both kept our ends of the deal. So without any further ado, five frames I shot of my friend Volkmar over the years.
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