Background
Gernot Kuehn was born in 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.
Gernot Kuehn was born in 1940 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.
Kuehn studied at California State University, Los Angeles (American studies), and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (cinema).
Kuehn was a freelance film editor and photographer. He does documentary photography, emphasizing "the human element and changes affected by it." He has done a series on nocturnal Hollywood and another on aging in various European countries.
The author writes of East Germany from 1945 - four years before the socialist nation was officially carved out of the former German Reich - to 1989, when the dictatorship fell and 40 years of isolation ended.
He belongs to Motion Picture Film Editors Local 776 in Hollywood and to the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.