| 1949 | Born in Walle / Lower Saxony | 
   | 1963 | First attempts in photography with the more than 20 years old family camera | 
   | 1964 | Growing enthusiasm for beat music | 
   | 1965 | First visit to a concert performed by an internationally known band
   "Casey Jones and the Governors" - still without a camera ... | 
   | 1966 | Establishing a beat club, along with fellow-football players; the title of the club had the same name as the cult television show launched by Radio Bremen in 1965
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   | 1967 | First shots at a beat concert with the Rolling Stones in Bremen | 
   | 1970 Juli | Pop festival in Aachen with shots of Can and Mungo Jerry | 
   | 1970 Aug | Isle of Wight festival with shots of many rock stars (among others Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Joan Baez, Jethro Tull, etc.) | 
   | 1970 Sep | First publication of rock photos in a daily newspaper | 
   | 1970-1973 | Visiting numerous concerts and festivals 
(among others Pink Floyd 1972, Steppenwolf 1972, The Who 1972, Rolling Stones 1973) | 
   | 1973-1979 | Course of studies | 
   | 1979-2001 | Working as a teacher | 
	
   | From 2001 | Increasingly busy as a "rock photographer" 
 
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   | Exhibitions 
 
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   | 2002 | "Sing me the songs of yesterday" at Taranta Babu, Dortmund | 
	
   | 2004 | "Rock photos from five decades of rock history" at Gallery "arke", Dortmund
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   | 2006 | "talkin' 'bout my generation" at DASA, Dortmund | 
	
   | 2006 | "talkin' 'bout my generation" at F&H Public Relations, Munich (extended range as of June)
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   | 2007 | "Just Wanna See His Face - The faces of the Rolling Stones" joint exhibition with Sebastian Krüger at Rock' n 'Pop Museum, Gronau | 
	
   | 2008 | "The Beat Goes On", joint exhibition with Gered Mankowitz, Patty Boyd, Ethan Russell, Dezo Hofman et al. 
   At the V!P's International Art Galerie, Rotterdam | 
	
   | 2009 | "It's Only Rock' n' Roll", joint exhibition with Henk Bosmain at Lichtzone, Groningen | 
	
   | 2012 | Annual permanent exhibition at the hotel, bar and gallery "The Golden" in Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London | 
   | 2015 | "Rock Around The Wall" - Rock Legends "Then And Now" at the "Altes Museum am Ostwall", Dortmund 
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   | 2016 | "My Guitar Heroes" within the framework of the Guitarfestival Oberhausen Polish Cultural Restaurant Gdanska, Oberhausen
 
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   | 2017 | "50 Years of Rock Photography with Carl van der Walle" - Music Theater Piano, Dortmund. Opened by guitarist Dick Taylor as part of a "Pretty thing" concert.
 
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   | 2018 | Carl van der Walle: Isle of Wight Festival 50th Anniversary Exhibition Plus Music from Dick Taylor (of The Pretty Things) & Tony Minx
 June 1 - July 1, 2018 - Ventnor Exchange / Isle of Wightt
 
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   | 2019 | Silver anniversary and 70th birthday of club manager Manni Engelhardt of the Rolling Stones Club Aachen/ Stolberg. 
   Rolling Stones exhibition with Ole Ohlendorff, Rosie Geisler, Carl v. d. Walle and Gerd Coordes (06.07.2019) 
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   | 2019 | "The club of the dead rock stars: Jimi, Janis, Jim and others" and tribute concert with Ali Neander, Achim Dürr and Jessica Born. 
   Photo exhibition of the rock music photographers Carl v.d. Walle, Hartmut Hennig and Gerd Coordes. 
   Organiser: Volker Rebell, Rebell(i)sche Studiobühne, Offenbach (26.10. to 07.12.2019) 
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   | 2022 | "Rock-Legends - Carl van der Walle", Exhibition from 10.09. to 19.11.2022 in Aurich with a selection
    of the best pictures in the hometown of Carl van der Walle. 
 
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