Ditmar skull

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Ditmar Skull (* 1960 in Stade ) is a German photographer , photo educator, university professor and author of various specialist articles on photography. He became known in the 1990s through long-term photographic observations of the changes in the former GDR .

From 1986 to 1995 he taught as a research assistant at the University of Hildesheim , since 1995 he has been a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen , where he oversees the field of art and design in the engineering department. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the German Society for Photography , Cologne .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ditmar Topf studied cultural education at the University of Hildesheim. This model course of study met his experiences and expectations of interdisciplinarity and freedom of choice from high school under the Buxtehude model . In 1986 he completed his studies with a focus on visual arts, literature and media education with a diploma.

From 1987 he worked as a research assistant, since 1989 as a research assistant at the University of Hildesheim and together with Klaus Dierßen he built up the photography department. In the years 1989–1995 he held several teaching positions at universities, for example at the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences for photography and screen printing, and worked in educational institutions of a trade union and in adult education centers. After moving to the University of Duisburg-Essen, he had teaching assignments at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach and organized several exhibition projects in the cubus Kunsthalle Duisburg, in the Rheinische Kliniken in Bedburg-Hau and in Düsseldorf.   

Ditmar skull is an appointed member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh), was for many years on the board of the education section and has been chairman of the executive board of the DGPh since 2010. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Friedrichshain Photo Gallery in Berlin and of the organization team for the RAW Photo Triennial in Worpswede.

Publications (selection)

  • The Hildesheim billboard (Bettina Harborth, Dorit Klüver, Ditmar appointed), documentation of an artistic project, Hildesheim 1989
  • After and After (Klaus Dierßen and Ditmar appointed), ed. from the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Bramsche 1993 (awarded the Kodak Photo Book Prize 1994),
  • Camera obscura, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet 1993
  • Photographic productions in urban spaces: in art and teaching, issue 187/1994
  • Well respected - in East Germany (Klaus Dierßen and DitmarSchädel), ed. from the Kunstverein Hildesheim with texts by Dieter Lüttge and Thomas Weski, Bramsche 1995
  • The Chancellor's Little Heroes (Anushka Roshani and Cordt Schnibben), DER SPIEGEL, issue 46/1996
  • LOCHWERK, exhibition catalog with a text by Klaus Dierßen, Duisburg 1997
  • Photo and text (Hungarian Museum of Photography), Kecskemet 1999
  • Black-and-white ? (Kunstverein Leverkusen, Federal Ministry of the Interior), catalog for the traveling exhibition on the Year of Seniors, Bonn 1999
  • Shell piles, annual journal, Viersen 2000
  • Moerser Art Prize, Museum Peschkenhaus Moers, catalog, Moers 2000
  • Elementary photography (art and teaching, issue 251/2001), Seelze 2001
  • Focus on people, exhibition catalog, Kleve 2001
  • KUNSTPOSTKARTE NRW (Birk Bruckhoff and Ditmar appointed), exhibition catalog, Bramsche 2004
  • Eros and Stasi, East German Photography from the Gabriele Koenig Collection, Aachen 2011, 978-3-86828-216-0
  • Calendar graphics (art connection 2012), 978-3-941559-10-3
  • frame # 4, annual volume of the DGPh 2012, 978-3-86930-413-7
  • Hans Brög: Copy Books and Other, Photography and Design, 978-3-00-052997-9
  • Gallery in the Stammelbach-Speicher 2013 to 2017, 978-3-938385-75-3
  • Hans Brög: Possible, Really, Not Necessary, Photography and Design, 978-3-9820427-0-1
  • ABC of Photography, 2018 (edited jointly with Angela Matyssek), 978-3-96098-281-4

Working in public space

  • 1995: Photogram installation Agidientorkirche Hannover
  • 1996: Photogram installation at the University of Duisburg

Artistic and educational projects

  • "Drukkult" (printmaking and photography 1987 and 1990) (catalog)
  • "Lauter Werke" (various techniques 1989) (leaflet)
  • "The Hildesheim billboard" (catalog booklet)
  • "Images of Transition" (photography 1990/91) / "Transitions" (sound slide show)
  • "The course in cultural education" (audio slide show)
  • "Shadows" (documentation folder)
  • "Art station H" (documentation folder)
  • "Tofrek - Between Times" (room installation, objects, found objects, scenes, readings) (documentation folder)
  • "Iron, Dust and Form" (photography, object installations, found objects, historical material) (catalog booklet)
  • "Perspectives - On Contemporary Artistic Photography" (collection catalog and slipcase with eight catalogs)
  • "AFTER AND AFTER" (book)
  • "Viewed - in East Germany" (book)
  • "... we will continue on our way, trusting in you ..." (body photographs)
  • "Poemas y fotografía" poetry and photograms (folder)
  • "Focus on people" (catalog)
  • "jazz en bloc" (four cycles between 1999 and 2002, CD)
  • "LZ-Galerie" (CD-ROM and computer installation)
  • "4x4" (four exhibitions 2001-05)
  • "Kunstpostkarte NRW" (catalog)

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions a. in

Hildesheim, Bad Lauterberg, Bevern Holzminden Castle , University of Hamburg , Association of Visual Artists Hanover, Kunstkreis Holzminden, District Museum Peine, Gallery for Photography Rotenburg / Wümme, Hungarian Museum for Photography Kecskemet, District Museum Aschersleben, District Museum Senftenberg, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Municipal gallery Nordhorn, cubus kunsthalle Duisburg, gallery in the water tower Viersen, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus Schwerin, museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

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personal data
SURNAME Skull, Ditmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, photo educator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade , Germany