Anna Seghers
Melis made his reputation as a fashion photographer, notably for "Sibylle", a fashion magazine, and for more general photo-reportage that appeared in publications including the ", "Wochenpost"", "Die Zeit", "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and "Geo". Above all he was known, in east and west alike, for powerful portraits of leading literary and artistic figures including Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Thomas Brasch, Wolf Biermann, Franz Fühmann, Heiner Müller or Sarah Kirsch.