Technical School for Optics and Photo Technology BERLIN: Study trip report 

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You are bidding on one report about the "Study trip to the commercial vocational school for precision mechanics, photography and optics" (East Berlin) from 1953.

This is what is meant State technical school for optics and photography technology (SFOF).

Typescript copy with 29 mounted photos.

Dated 24. June to 7th July 1953.

The foreword handwritten signed by the headmaster Dr. Walter Mindt, author of the work “Augenoptik”; Another foreword is signed by precision mechanic Horst Stevenson, one of the participants.

Describes the visit of various technical companies to “West Germany”:

-Ernst Leitz (Wetzlar)

-Bayer & Agfa (Leverkusen)

-Oberhausen ironworks

-Hüttenwerke Phoenix AG (Duisburg)

-Demag (Duisburg)

-Osnabrücker Kupfer- und Drahtwerk AG

-Volkswagen (Wolfsburg)

-Company Voigtländer (Braunschweig).

Scope: Title page (as a photo collage), 29 single-sided sheets with forewords, entries, list of participants (typescript carbon copy) and 27 mounted photos; plus two larger photos on intervening panels.

Format: 29 x 22.3 x 1 cm.

Participants:

Precision mechanic: Manfred Dahms, Hartmut Dress, Horst Hildebrandt, Gerhard Hilpert, Klaus Iske, Günter Kirschling, Peter Kremer, Ernst Malkewitz, Manfred Markiton, Fredi Mönch, Dietrich Nachmayer, Günter Plinke, Heinz Rees, Armin Schulz, Manfred Schulz, Horst Stevenson, Gerhard Stührmann , Alfred Tietz, Bruno Weber.

Photographers: Horst Baumgartner, Ilse Bönisch, Ingrid Jansen, Sybille Mischke and Brigitte Schwarz.

Film copy maker: Wilhelm Manntz, Werner Müller, Dieter Tannenberg and Manfred Wolf.

Fine optician: Manfred Grindel, Hans Georg Kiefer and Horst Krohne.

Photo laboratory assistant: Rosemarie Hein.

Teacher: Senior industrial instructor Dussler and industrial instructor Klitzke.

Condition: Pages slightly browned. Linen spine damaged, back cover with creases. Otherwise excellent condition. bplease note also the pictures at the end of the item description!

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About the school (source: wikipedia):

The State Technical School for Optics and Photo Technology (SFOF) in Berlin was a higher technical school for further training for opticians and photography professions. Due to Berlin's education policy, it was dissolved in 2000. It is considered one of the first film schools in Germany.

History: In 1909 the first German “technical school for opticians” was opened in Mainz through the efforts of the Central Association of Optical Shop Owners. V. In 1912 the technical school was relocated to Berlin, Neue Roß-Straße, as the “German Optician School, Technical Center of the German Opticians Association e. V.”. In 1914 the technical school was closed due to the First World War. In 1919 the technical school was reopened as the “German School for Optics and Phototechnology in Berlin”, with its own course of study for phototechnicians. In 1930, the city of Berlin provided its own building on Hochstrasse (near Gesundbrunnen train station). The technical school building on Hochstrasse was destroyed by bombs in 1943. In 1944, temporary accommodation was built for the technical school at Spittelmarkt. The technical school building on Spittelmarkt was destroyed by fire in a bomb attack in 1945. The first lessons after the Second World War for the photo technology department took place in the premises of the Gauß Engineering School on Bochumer Straße.

The technical school had been run by the city of Berlin since 1950 and moved into the Japanese Embassy building on Tiergartenstrasse. In 1955 the camera assistant course was added. In 1962 the new building on Einsteinufer was inaugurated. Today the central university administration of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) is located in the building.

Since 1996, the SFOF has been dismantled and the photography technology course has been dissolved. In 1997, the FFM Potsdam was founded in Potsdam-Babelsberg with the reopening of the photography technology course. At the same time, a first year began the advanced course of study to become a “state-certified technician specializing in photo technology” at the FFM Potsdam-Babelsberg. The optics department separated from the SFOF in 1998 and moved to the Technical University of Applied Sciences (TFH) Berlin. The camera department was integrated into the Technical University of Berlin in 2000 and the SFOF was dissolved.

The continuing education courses in optics and camera are now offered as undergraduate courses at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. The advanced photography technology course was reopened in 1997 at the Potsdam Technical School for Photo and Media Technology and expanded to include media.

Training: For opticians there was a course to become a state-certified technician in the field of optics. For photography careers, a course to become a state-certified technician specializing in photography technology. There was also further training to become a state-certified camera assistant, which can be seen as a precursor to the undergraduate camera courses.

The further education courses offered one of the first media technology training courses in West Germany with the training to become a “state-certified technician and a state-certified camera assistant”.

graduates

Thomas Wilk, then Thomas Weisweiler (trickWILK GmbH), 1974

Frank Griebe (Lola Runs, 1998)

Dietrich Lohmann (Deep Impact, 1998)

Ralf Leistl

Jörg Jeshel (Black Box FRG, 2001)