German Dance Archive - Internationale Photoszene

The German Dance Archive / SK Stiftung Kultur is a globally networked information, documentation and research centre for dance. With its affiliated exhibition area, it is one of the three most renowned archives of the art of dance in the world, alongside the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library and the Dansmuseet Stockholm.

The unique holdings of the archive, which was founded by Kurt Peters in 1948, also include a collection of approximately 170,000 photographs and over 120,000 original negatives and slides.

A large number of important photographers are represented in it with vintage prints: Cyril Arapoff, Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Ellen Auerbach, Roberto Baccarini, Baron, Lili Altschul-Baruch, David S. Berlin, E. Bieber, Alexander Binder, Dieter Blum, Erwin Blumenfeld, Brassaï, Suse Byk, Chargesheimer, Erich Consemüller, Minya Diez-Dührkoop, Werner Eckelt, Waldemar Eide, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hugo Erfurth, Michael Fackelmann, Trude Fleischmann, Arnold Genthe, Maurice Goldberg, Harlip, Heinrich Heidersberger, Fritz Henle, Hanns Holdt, Dora Horovitz, Walde Huth, Lotte Jacobi, Genja Jonas, Frederick Kaeser II. , Hannes Kilian, Germaine Krull, Robert Lebeck, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, Serge Lido, Herbert List, Eli Lotar, Manassé, Elli Marcus, Willy Maywald, Nickolas Muray, d'Ora, George Platt Lynes, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gerhard Riebicke, Riess, Anna Riwkin, Hans Robertson, Charlotte Rudolph, Sosenko, Bettina Stöß, Sasha Stone, Liselotte Strelow, Swiridoff, Herbert Tobias, Umbo, Walter Vogel, Lucien Walery, Gert Weigelt, Edward Weston, Yva, Zander & Labisch, Matthias Zölle and Ridha Zouari.

The holdings also include the archives of dance and ballet photographers Siegfried Enkelmann, Annelise Löffler, Hans Rama, Dietmar Dünhöft, Jörg Hintze and Udo Hesse, as well as dance-related sub-archives and special holdings of photographers Will Burgdorf, Walter Boje, K. A. Petraschk, Matthias and Gabriele du Vinage, Fritz Peyer and Robert d'Hooghe, among others, and a collection of historical photo postcards comprising 3,000 objects.

The history and present of dance photography are also repeatedly the subject of the Tanzmuseum's exhibitions. The photo collection therefore also includes several archived exhibitions on contemporary visual art's exploration of dance, including the 'Photographers See Dance' series curated by the German Dance Archive Cologne. In 2006, the German Dance Archive Cologne developed the touring exhibition 'Stopped Time. Images of Dance', which was presented at Goethe-Instituts worldwide.

Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln / SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn
Im Mediapark 7 
50670 Cologne 
www.deutsches-tanzarchiv.de