Römer was a Berlin-based photojournalist whose work documented not only the tumultuous political events of his era - the November Revolution, the abdication of the Emperor, the Spartacist Uprising, mass demonstrations and workers' strikes, the rise of Nazi militias - but also everyday life in the streets and backyards of Berlin. His photo agency Photothek Römer & Bernstein was one of the leading photo agencies of the Weimar Republic until closed down by the Nazis in 1935. (http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Willy-Romer--Life-In-The-City-of-Berlin--Photographs-1919-1933---Street-Level.html?soid=1102117931121&aid=bjch28LgIpM) ...began his career in 1903 with an apprenticeship at the Berlin Illustration Society. Fifteen years later, he became self-employed. In 1920 he and Walter Bernstein took over the photo agency Bildothek. As a Photothek Romer & Bernstein the agency flourished in the Weimar Republic, but closed under the National Socialists....The archive is now at Diethart Kerbs, Berlin. (https://www.dhm.de/archiv/magazine/fotografen/roemer.html Römer was not only a compulsive shutterbug, he also seemed to be in the right place at the right time in a way that any photographer would envy. He was fascinated by ... the city's oldest buildings (he himself lived in an old alley, the Krögel, which dated from the 14th century...), vanishing occupations, the historic moments he found himself caught up in, and the harbors and train stations of this central city... 1936 was the year of his downfall: his business partner was a guy named Walter Bernstein, and because of that, Römer's photography business was deemed "Jewish" and closed. ...Not only did he survive the war, but... the building they lived in, which housed all of his negatives -- survived, too... He was pretty much unable to make a living after the war, which must have made those last 34 years pretty awful, but the DHM has paid him back in spades... (http://berlinbites.blogspot.nl/2004/11/willy-rmer.html) undefined

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