Rocker - Karlheinz Weinberger

Karlheinz Weinberger saw something in the teenagers and rockers that was hidden from everyone else at the time and he wanted to capture it. Society, which only saw the juvenile delinquents with long hair and bad tattoos, not the actual person, who mainly tried to reproduce the poses of the role models from the early biker films.

Weinberger always treated them correctly, former members of the Lone Stars, the "gang of thugs" from which the Hells Angels later emerged, told me. He was always there with his camera, on the sidelines and yet right in the middle of things. He was particularly appreciated because he generously distributed the prints of his pictures. Weinberger's photographs therefore appear again and again in the photo albums of his protagonists. Those albums were to them what the Instagram feed is to today's teenagers. Nothing was as important as the picture. The image of themselves as a “wild" gang member.