German Society for Stereoscopy
The German Society for Stereoscopy eV (DGS) is an association founded in 1927 that promotes the dissemination and knowledge of spatial image display ( stereoscopy ). Its purpose is to bring together all those who deal with stereoscopy for hobby, scientific, commercial and other reasons in order to promote and spread the interest in stereoscopy and the stereoscopic image through stimulation and information.
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| purpose | Spread of spatial image representation |
| Chair: | Frank Lorenz |
| Establishment date: | December 28, 1927 in Berlin |
| Number of members: | about 500 |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | www.stereoskopie.org/de |
The association sees itself as an association of all persons and corporations who deal with stereoscopy for hobby, scientific, commercial and other reasons in order to promote and spread interest in stereoscopy and the stereoscopic image through stimulation and information. She seeks to achieve this goal by:
- Events and meetings of the members.
- Exhibitions, events, publications, demonstrations, lectures, competitions and the like.
- Collection of devices and images, dissemination, exchange, utilization and communication of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the stereoscopic field.
- Association with communities of the same kind and pursuing similar aspirations.
- Support for research in the field of stereoscopy.
The company does not strive for economic business operations and has no political character. The DGS eV pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes. Society operates selflessly. The DGS has around 500 members, most of whom are based in Germany, but also come from neighboring European countries. The association has regional groups all over Germany. In the regional groups, there is an exchange of interests and experiences between the members during the regular meetings. A general meeting is held every year and a new board is elected every three years.
Board
The business of the association is managed by the board. This is responsible for all affairs of the association, as far as they are not assigned by the statutes of the general assembly. The board consists of
- the chairman,
- the deputy chairman, also secretary, and
- the treasurer.
Members who are entrusted with special tasks by the board form the extended board. Belong to the extended board
- the regional group leaders,
- the equipment and bookkeeper,
- the technical advisory board,
- the Scientific Advisory Board,
- the editor stereo journal as well
- if necessary also other members.
The board of directors and the extended board of directors meet once a year for a closed meeting. This is where advice is given on current issues relating to club life.
Regional groups
Part of the club life takes place in the regional groups. These are an internal subdivision of the DGS, whose business activities are coordinated with the DGS board. There are currently the following DGS regional groups:
- Regional group Hamburg
- Hanover regional group
- Regional group Munich
- Regional group Nuremberg
- Regional group Rhineland
- Regional group Ruhr area
- Regional group Saxony (DGS-Raumbildfreunde Sachsen eV)
- Regional group Ulm-Laupheim
Association organ
Since 2002 members have received the club magazine stereo journal ( ISSN 1612-6904 ) as part of their membership . The magazine appears quarterly with a length of 40 pages.
In terms of content, there are the following subject areas:
- Reports on club life
- Image services
- Technical articles
- Reports of news in the field of stereoscopy
- Events and stereo market
Events and activities
The club life takes place at the meetings of the regional groups as well as at the annual DGS congresses at changing locations and the 3D days in Hamm. Members show their own stereo productions on a large screen, exchange experiences and report on what is going on in the scene. DGS trips to locations in Germany and abroad that are of particular interest to stereophotographers also take place every year.
Members with special interests organize themselves in SIGs (Special Interest Groups). The DGS is a member of the International Stereoscopic Union (ISU), the international 3D world association. International stereo photo competitions are held at irregular intervals. The DGS has a collection of stereo equipment and a 3D library that is managed by the equipment and bookkeeper.
DGS congresses
The association's various activities include the annual DGS congresses, which take place at different locations. It is an internal event of the association that extends over a weekend from Friday to Sunday. The first DGS congress was held in Oberstdorf in 1998. With the congress in 2002, which a member from Luxembourg brought to Vianden, this event took place for the first time in a neighboring European country. At the 2003 congress in Celle, the DGS celebrated the 75th anniversary of its society.
In addition to the projections, seminars and technical presentations are held. The general assembly of the association also takes place during the DGS congress, as this makes it easier for members to participate. In addition to the actual congress, there are supporting events to promote relationships between members.
At the reception
Historical devices in the foyer
Exhibition in the foyer
Demonstration technology
Congressional conclusion
3D days of the DGS
Since the 1990s, public space picture days have been held annually in Neu-Isenburg. The venue was relocated to Hamm in 2013. In 2015 the Raumbildtag was renamed 3D-Tag der DGS and carried out as part of the 3rd Hammer Day of Photography. Under the umbrella of the community college of the city of Hamm, both events will take place in parallel at two locations close together.
The Fotonetzwerk-Hamm, a loose association of amateur and professional photographers, focuses on workshops and seminars that take place in the rooms of the VHS in the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Forum. In addition to longer 2D image presentations, a 3D introductory seminar is also offered by the DGS. The DGS is organizing its 3D day in the Hamm culture station. The show program is carried out purely digitally. A common entry wristband enables flexible change between the picture lectures at both locations.
SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
The SIGs are an internal association of DGS members with special interests in order to be able to better use their creative potential.
Existing SIGs are u. a .:
- SIG 3D camera
- SIG projection
- SIG stereo correction
- SIG 3D scanning / 3D printing
- SIG 4K / high fidelity 3D
- SIG time lapse
- SIG Spatial Perception, Stereopsis
history
On December 28, 1927, the German Society for Stereoscopy was founded in Berlin. The first activities were the preparation and publication of the association's body Das Plastische Bild in January 1928 and the preparation of the first meeting of the DGS on February 9, 1928. On July 18, 1928, the DGS was entered in the register of associations at the Berlin-Schöneberg District Court. According to the Articles of Association, the first business year began on this day.
At the annual general meeting on February 26, 1931, Hermann Lüscher was elected chairman. Lüscher remained chairman until the annual general meeting on May 12, 1960, and continued to run the office to a large extent until his death on March 26, 1961. So that the activities of the DGS were not limited to Berlin, the establishment and expansion of local groups was given particular importance. So local groups were founded in Munich, Hamburg and Dresden. After its peak in 1932, the number of members fell from 203 to 98 by the end of 1934. Amazingly, there were more admissions in the first years of the war. In 1943 a temporary high was reached with 189 members.
The society organized club outings, monthly general meetings and stereo round tables. There was an annual general meeting at the beginning of each year. A club cupboard with the DGS literature was set up in the club room. Technical lectures enriched the general assembly. As a disaster of the Association of German Amateur Photographers Associations (VDAV), the DGS took part in their events with stereoscopy departments. Furthermore, the DGS organized an annual performance competition with the award of the company's annual championship. The club premises and the DGS office were destroyed by bombing raids on Berlin. A large part of the DGS library and the documents and records of the DGS were thus lost. The work of the DGS came to a standstill, the association was not active from 1943 to 1951.
After the allied regulations were relaxed in 1951, the DGS resumed its activities. The first event was a general meeting on February 1, 1951 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. During this time, too, as in the pre-war years, club evenings, stereo round tables and stereo excursions were held. On March 20 and 21, 1953 the 25th anniversary of the DGS took place in Berlin. From 1953 on was again called for annual performance competitions.
As a result of a long-term collaboration with DIN (German Institute for Standardization), some standards sheets for stereoscopy were revised in 1956. The closer relations with the Association of German Amateur Photographers Associations (VDAV) have been resumed. The DGS members were thus also corporate members of the VDAV and entitled to participate in its events.
On January 1, 1957, under the direction of Karl-Heinz Hatlé in Leverkusen, the first functioning local group after the war was founded as the Rhineland-Westphalia regional group. If the membership had risen to over 200 by 1960, it fell sharply again in the mid-1960s. The reasons were the required fee increases and the discontinuation of the magazine “Fotopost”, in which the association's organ “Der Stereoskopiker” appeared. Another reason was the decline in industry interest in stereoscopy. The situation was very difficult for DGS at this time. In order to ensure contact with the members, a new organ should be published. Initially, this was only possible by sending out “circulars to all members”. Since no more stereo competitions were organized either, the DGS members were asked to take part in the competitions organized by the PSA Stereoscopy Section in the USA. Above all through the initiative of Fritz G. Waack , the DGS was able to publish a club magazine “stereo-journal” from 1974 onwards.
The ISU ( International Stereoscopic Union ) was founded at an international stereoscopic congress organized in 1975 by the “Netherlands Association for Stereoscopy” . The DGS was a founding member of this organization.
Membership growth began in the mid-1970s and reached 700 DGS members by around the mid-1980s.
Karl-Heinz Hatlé from Cologne, who has already built up the Rhineland stereo group and has proven himself several times in organizing the meetings of space image friends on the occasion of the Photokina , was elected as the company's new chairman at the general meeting on March 6, 1978. This was the first time that the chair was not held by a Berlin member. In order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the DGS, 3D information days were held from September 14th to 17th, 1978 in Cologne, at the same time as the Photokina. At the Photokina, the DGS presented a booth with a retrospective under the motto “125 years of stereo photography”. Since 1980 the DGS has been staging stereo competitions according to the rules of the PSA.
Heinz Otto has initiated meetings for all DGS members in Neu-Isenburg since 1983. These meetings were called stereoscopic congresses and later space picture days. They are now being continued as 3D days in Hamm. In 1989 an ISU congress was organized for the first time by the DGS in Neu-Isenburg from June 1st to 4th. At the urging of the Berlin members and at the request of some guests, some of the events took place in Berlin.
The DGS's equipment and book collection was housed in the Deidesheim Photo and Film Museum . In order to coordinate the work of the regional groups and to improve the cooperation with the board as well as the regional groups among themselves, annual regional group leader meetings were brought into being. As a further important highlight in club life, DGS congresses are held at different locations from the 1990s. From September 22nd to 27th, 1999, the DGS hosted an ISU congress in Lindau on Lake Constance for the second time. Since 1992 the DGS has had a booth at the Photokina in Cologne.
After the DGS published its club information in the 1990s under the heading “3D-Journal” in the magazines “3D-Magazin” and “DIA-Magazin” or “fotoforum”, since 2002 it has been publishing its own club magazine, stereo journal .
Club magazines
The association's previous journals were:
- The plastic picture 1928
- Announcements of the German Society for Stereoscopy 1929
- The stereoscopist as a supplement in Photography for All 1929–1943
- Supplement in the photo industry and trade 1943–1944
- "The stereoscopist" section in Fotopost 1952–1965
- Circular letter to all members 1965–1972
- Circular letters of the German Society for Stereoscopy 1972–1973
- Stereo-Journal 1974-1992
- "Stereo-Journal" section in the 3D magazine 1992–1997
- "3D-Journal" section in Dia-Magazin (magazine was renamed fotoforum in 2000 ) 1997–2002
- stereo journal from 2002
Chairperson
- PF Brandt-Leiseberg December 28, 1927 to May 24, 1928
- Albrecht PF Richter May 24, 1928 to February 26, 1931
- Hermann Lüscher February 26, 1931 to May 12, 1960
- Hans-Hermann Atorf May 12, 1960 to March 12, 1975
- Peter Hein March 12, 1975 to May 6, 1978
- Karl-Heinz Hatlé May 6, 1978 to November 21, 1981
- Fritz G. Waack November 21, 1981 to May 5, 1984
- Karl-Heinz Hatlé May 5, 1984 to November 15, 1992
- Jürgen Horn November 15, 1992 to October 31, 2004
- Peter Schnehagen October 31, 2004 to October 24, 2010
- Gisela Will October 24, 2010 to June 1, 2013
- Michael Schiebe June 1, 2013 to May 28, 2016
- Frank Lorenz since May 28, 2016
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Articles of Association of the DGS ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
