Bernd Stiegler: A Historical Mélange. Political photo montage from 1870/71 to 1945

Photomontage was already a widespread technique long before the avant-gardes – not least in the field of politics. The lecture uses numerous pictorial examples to present stages of political photomontage from the Paris Commune to the end of the Second World War.

Lecture in German

Bernd Stiegler, Professor of Modern German Literature with a focus on the 20th century in a media context at the University of Konstanz. Main areas of research: History and theory of photography as well as German and French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent publications: Recent publications: Der montierte Mensch. Eine Figur der Moderne, Paderborn 2016; Konstruierte Wirklichkeiten. Die fotografische Montage 1839–1900, Basel 2019 (with Felix Thürlemann); Nadar. Bilder der Moderne, Köln 2019; Wolfgang Schulz und die Fotoszene um 1980, Leipzig 2019 (with Reinhard Matz and Steffen Siegel; also Ausstellungskatalog Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 2019 und Museum für Fotografie, Berlin 2020); beiseite [Fotobuch], Köln 2023; Bilder für Reisende. Robert Rive – Ein Fotoatelier in Neapel, Halle/Saale 2023.