Siegerflieger, English Edition

Juergen Teller, born in Erlangen, Germany, in 1964, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. His work has been published in influential magazines such as W Magazine, i-D and Purple, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including The Photographers' Gallery in London, the Kunsthalle Wien and the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Teller won the prestigious Citibank Photography Prize in 2003, and has published numerous monographs with Steidl including Marc Jacobs Advertising 1998-2009 (2009), Pictures and Text (2012), The Master III (2009), The Keys to the House (2012), Woo! (2014), and I just arrived in Paris (2014).

For a German soccer enthusiast like Juergen Teller, summer 2014 couldn't have been any better. The German national team-guest of honor in Teller's work since Nackig auf dem Fussballplatz (Steidl, 2004)-won the World Cup in Brazil, and Teller was passionately there every step of the way.Siegerflieger (literally "the victors' plane," the affectionate name given to the German team's customized jumbo) unfolds in typical diary-like Teller fashion: we see him enjoying a bratwurst or two, a casual round of chess with the family in his hometown of Bubenreuth, and perhaps one drink too many with his students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Yet Teller's obsession for soccer (also shared by his son Ed, the covert star of this book) remains center stage, be he watching the final live on TV or welcoming home the triumphant team at the Brandenburg Gate. Teller even went so far as to immortalize the German victory in his very first tattoo, a natural step for soccer fanatics. For the rest of us, we have the exuberant, testosterone-charged Siegerflieger to enjoy.