Renate Rössing

| birth_name = Renate Winkler | birth_date = | birth_place = Dresden, Free State of Saxony, Germany | death_date = 12 July 2005 | death_place = Leipzig, Free State of Saxony, Germany | occupation = Photographer
... Landscapes and architecture
... Photojournalism
... Portraiture
... Daily life | education = | alma_mater = Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig | employer = | party = | notable_works = | spouse = Roger Rössing (1929-2006) | parents = Willy Winkler (1900-1934)
Margarete Winkler Schieschke (1903-1945) | children = | website = }}

Renate Rössing (born Renate Winkler: 15 April 1929 – 11 July 2005) was a German photographer. Her career continued beyond the changes of 1989/90. Prior to that, as an East German citizen, she enjoyed privileges which enabled her to travel abroad. She is nevertheless best known for pictures taken in and around her home cities of Leipzig and Dresden during the 1950s and 1960s. Her work embraced photojournalism, portraiture and landscapes. For historians, some of her most interesting pictures deal with daily life during the years of postwar reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

In the late 1940s Renate Winkler teamed up with fellow photography student Roger Rössing. After this they worked closely together: authorship of their pictures was attributed to "Rössing-Winkler" or, following their marriage in 1951, simply to "Rössing". In most cases it therefore becomes impossible to know which of them was holding the camera for any individual picture. Rolf Richter, a journalist who was also a close friend of the couple, recalls that Renate was often the more adventurous of the two when it came to selecting locations. She would crawl to the edge of flat roofs on tall buildings in order to capture a more striking panorama. It was also generally Renate who took responsibility for image composition and for the placement of image and text. Provided by Wikipedia