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English: Halbmondlager-Muslim POWs-Arabic-African-Tartar
Before the First World War Otto Stiehl (1860-1940) from Berlin-Steglitz was an architect and Professor at the Technical High School Berlin. From 1924 he became member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Pre-History. He started his military service in WWI with being an amateur photographer in the prisoner of war /POW/ camps. Stiehl's post as the camp Commandant in Halbmond Lager, Weinberg Lager and others allowed him unrestricted access to all prisoners in all camp facilities as well as to other camps all over German territory and beyond. He took his photography seriously and became, as he claimed, the true and impartial documentarist of life in POW camps. The photos by Otto Stiehl presented here were mostly made into postcards and sold. Now being part of the Garnisonsmuseum Wuensdorf collection, these have been kindly provided for this publication by the museum authorities. It's all the more important to mention in this respect the exhibition mounted by the Museum Europäische Kulturen in Berlin Dahlem. The exhibition “Phonographed Sounds - Photographed Moments” is one of the most insightful, well curated, profoundly researched and accurate museum shows dedicated to the 100 centennial of the World War I organised in Germany in commemoration of the war. Among other artefacts on display the photos by Otto Stiehl are a significant component of the exhibition. For Georgian readership some of the photos exhibited present particular revelatory aspect since very few might expect to find among the photographic portraits individuals from the Caucasus: prisoners from Georgia, Armenia, Tatars, Tschechens, Cherkessians, other Caucasian peoples, as well as prisoners from England's colonies in India, the Muslims, the French all detained in POW camps during 1914-1918. The exhibition “Phonographed Sounds - Photographed Moments” has been on at the Dahlem Museum of European Cultures from 10.10.2014 and will continue till 03.05.2015. |
| Date | circa 1915 |
| Source | http://e-mergingartists.blogspot.com/2015/04/artist-of-month-otto-stiehl-camp.html |
| Author | Unknown author |
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