Is It Deutsch Or Deutsche

[Giraldo Allain]

TheDeutsche Sommerschule von New Mexico is a total immersion academic program of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Literatures of The University of New Mexico, which simulates the experience of studying at a German-speaking university. The Sommerschule offers language courses, a lecture series central to the academic mission of the program, afternoon and evening elective courses taught by in house and guest faculty and an extensive selection of extra-curricular activities. Participants pledge to speak only German while at the Sommerschule.

The program is located in Kingston, New Mexico, a small village nestled in the Gila Mountains of Southwestern New Mexico. This secluded and beautiful site allows students to focus on participating fully in a German-speaking environment. While attending the Deutsche Sommerschule, faculty and students live and work together in the charming and rustic Black Range Lodge.

The 2024 lectures center on Kulturschock: Wenden in den deutschsprachigen Kultur(en). Our curriculum is further complemented by evening presentations and lectures featuring our visiting scholars, authors-in-residence, artists-in-residence, and guest lecturers.

To complement the learning experience at this summer school, students can hike the Gila Mountains; explore the Gila National forest, visit the small town of Truth or Consequences and The Museum of Space History in Alamagordo, discover the beauty of the sand dunes in White Sands National Park, visit Las Cruces, or play badminton at the Black Range Lodge. While a traditional Frhschoppen marks the transition to the second half of the program, the end of the program is celebrated with a Talentabend, a fun-filled evening of student skits and performances.

In 2024 , the Deutsche Fotothek celebrates its 100th anniversary. In twelve exhibitions in Dresden and elsewhere, as well as in numerous events , we will look back on an eventful history and what defines our profile as an archive of photographers today: being a central location for the preservation, research and communication of photographic heritage.

The Deutsche Fotothek at SLUB Dresden is one of the most important image archives in Europe with a collection of around seven million photographs and an online offering of currently around 2,344,000 image media. Our aim is to preserve and activate important examples of analogue and digital photography through online presentation, exhibitions and publications.

With the Archive of Photographers, the Deutsche Fotothek offers a showcase for the works of important German photographers or photographers working in Germany from the Deutsche Fotothek's holdings and from the collections of its partners .

The Deutsche Fotothek was recently able to record significant new acquisitions, from Hein Gorny, a style-defining representative of Neues Sehen (New Vision), who managed the balancing act between the avant-garde far removed from the public and advertising with an affinity for the public in an exemplary manner, to Conny J. Winter, an icon of West German advertising photography of the 1980s, and Barbara Metselaar Berthold, one of the great female photographers of the GDR, who celebrates youth and otherness with relish and exuberance, through to Frank Krems, a contemporary position that has developed from portraits of punks and New Romantics to conceptual series.

Townscapes, art, architecture or portraits - these and other thematic focuses characterise the Fotothek's holdings from the period from 1924 to the early 2000s. Browse through these central subject areas of our historic collection or simply use the search slot at the top.

The thematic approach presents results from third-party funded projects such as "Weltsichten" and "Die Gute Form" as well as portfolios compiled by individual photographers and selected focal points of the collection of the Deutsche Fotothek and its partners .

The Map Forum is an information portal of libraries, museums and archives within our image database, which is maintained by the Deutsche Fotothek and funded by the DFG. It currently offers over 32,000 of the most important high-resolution digitised cartographic sources.

Our portal for Architectural and Machine Drawings presents 108,000 sheets from the collections of the SLUB Dresden, the architecture museums of the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Munich, the so-called Mecklenburg Planschatz and the results of our DFG project "Architektur- und Ingenieurzeichnungen der deutschen Renaissance".

Latest new publication:

Budapest. The First Golden Age. Stereograms and Postcard Images from the Collections of Fortepan and Deutsche Fotothek ,

Catalogue of the current exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery

In the anniversary year, we are offering numerous guided tours through our exhibitions, as well as lectures and talks by and with photographers and scientists. We are also trialling a new format with the "Open the Box" series.

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