In the West he was considered the "Helmut Newton of the GDR", Günter Rössler himself did not like this title. He liked to show the women pensive and self-confident at the same time, in a rather delicate black and white aesthetic. He came to fame with his pictures in the fashion magazine "Sibylle" and the "Magazine", a magazine that published a nude photo every month - mostly photographed by Günter Rössler. He was also the in-house photographer for the GDR fashion magazine "Modische Maschen", which appeared four times a year with fashion photos and the associated knitting instructions and was extremely popular in the GDR.
—Der Spiegel