Martin Langer

Martin Langer studied photography in Bielefeld in the 1980s. Since then, he has been working as a photographer who focuses on political and social issues. His most famous photo from 1992 shows an unemployed man in Lichtenhagen wearing a German football shirt and urine-stained jogging bottoms while doing the Nazi salute. It is one of the most iconic images from German post-war photography. The photo has been published hundreds of times, and is on display in collections at the Haus der Geschichte...See more

Martin Langer studied photography in Bielefeld in the 1980s. Since then, he has been working as a photographer who focuses on political and social issues. His most famous photo from 1992 shows an unemployed man in Lichtenhagen wearing a German football shirt and urine-stained jogging bottoms while doing the Nazi salute. It is one of the most iconic images from German post-war photography. The photo has been published hundreds of times, and is on display in collections at the Haus der Geschichte museum in Bonn and the German Historical Museum in Berlin. See less