For his 23rd birthday Robert Lebeck was given a Retina 1A camera; he read the instructions, his only photographic “training”, and set off obsessively in search of pictures. Ten years later he belonged to the elite of international photojournalism. His pictures shaped the face of Stern; he was on the spot whenever something important happened in Germany and the world. With talent, persistence or by chance he always captured extraordinary moments with the camera. Lebeck met the greats of world politics and culture and portrayed them, in pictures and in his richly illustrated autobiography: he writes about his encounters with Willy Brandt, Max Frisch, Herbert von Karajan and Romy Schneider.