The Photo Collection of Reimer Schulz

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>The Photo Collection of Reimer Schulz</title> <link href="../format.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en, de, al" /> <meta name="Description" content="Early Photography in Albania - The Photo Collection of Reimer Schulz | Northern Albania in 1937" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="" /> <meta name="author" content="Robert Elsie" /> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url(hg.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-x; } </style>  <link rel="stylesheet" href="lightbox_files/vlb_files1/vlightbox1.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="lightbox_files/vlb_files1/visuallightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <script src="lightbox_files/vlb_engine/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="lightbox_files/vlb_engine/visuallightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  </head> <body> <table width="920" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td nowrap>| <a href="http://www.elsie.de/" class="nav1"><strong>Robert Elsie</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.AlbanianArt.net/" target="_top" class="nav1"><strong>AL Art</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.AlbanianHistory.net/" target="_top" class="nav1"><strong>AL History</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.AlbanianLanguage.net/" class="nav1"><strong>AL Language</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.AlbanianLiterature.net/" class="nav1"><strong>AL Literature</strong></a> | <a href="../index.html" class="nav1"><strong>AL Photography</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.elsie.de/en/contact.html" class="nav1"><strong>Contact</strong></a> |</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="400" colspan="2" valign="bottom"><h2>Robert Elsie</h2> <h1 align="left">Early Photography in Albania</h1></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC0000"> </td> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote><a href="javascript:history.back();"><img src="pfeil_l.gif" width="12" height="10" border="0" />BACK</a>  |  <a href="http://www.albanianphotography.net/">AL Photography</a></blockquote></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CC0000"><a href="http://www.elsie.de/datenschutz.htm" target="_blank"><img src="datenschutz.png" alt="Datenschutz" width="10" height="96" title="Datenschutz" border="0" /></a></td> <td width="680" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <blockquote> <h3>The Photo Collection of Reimer Schulz<br /> <a href="#DE" class="nav1">Deutsch</a> | <a href="#AL" class="nav1">Shqip</a></h3> <h3><strong>Northern Albania in 1937</strong></h3> <p>Dr Reimer Schulz (d. 1941) was a German anthropologist. Like his American counterpart Carleton Coon (1904-1981) in 1929- 1930, he carried out research in physical anthropology in the mountains of northern Albania. In 1937, Schulz took part in a German-Italian expedition to Theth in the Shala Valley on behalf of a so-called Thuringia Institute for Racial Studies (<em>Thüringisches Landesamt für Rassewesen</em>) in Weimar. During a longer stay in Theth, he measured body shapes and sizes and noted the physiognomic particularities of the natives for an academic discipline called anthropometry that – then strongly infiltrated by fascist ideology – was soon to fall out of fashion. In the course of his research in Shala, Schulz also took over two hundred photographs of school children and other pictures. These photos are said to have ended up in an archive in Halle, but may have been destroyed during the Second World War. What he did leave us at any rate are several spectacular photos of a traditional funeral in Theth that he published in the Leizpig periodical <em>Atlantis</em> (vol. 10, 1938, p. 257-259). Reimer Schulz had intended to complete his anthropological research with a second trip to Theth and had begun learning Albanian, but the Second World War intervened. He died as a soldier on the eastern front on 14 July 1941.  <div id="vlightbox1"> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/schulz_01.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/schulz_01.jpg" alt=""/></a> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/schulz_02.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/schulz_02.jpg" alt=""/></a> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/schulz_03.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/schulz_03.jpg" alt=""/></a> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/schulz_04.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/schulz_04.jpg" alt=""/></a> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/schulz_05.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/schulz_05.jpg" alt=""/></a> <span class="vlb"><a href="http://visuallightbox.com">jquery image lightbox</a>by VisualLightBox.com v6.1</span> </div> <script src="lightbox_files/vlb_engine/thumbscript1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="lightbox_files/vlb_engine/vlbdata1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  <p> </p> <h4 id="DE"><strong>Die Fotosammlung des Reimer Schulz</strong><br /> <a href="#top" class="nav1">English</a> | <a href="#AL" class="nav1">Shqip</a></h4> <h4><strong>Nordalbanien in den Jahren 1937</strong></h4> <p>Dr. Reimer Schulz (gest. 1941) war deutscher Anthropologe. Wie der Amerikaner Carleton Coon (1904-1981) in den Jahren 1929-1930 führte auch er anthropologische Untersuchungen in den Bergen Nordalbaniens durch. Im Jahre 1937 nahm Schulz im Auftrag des sogenannten Thüringischen Landesamtes für Rassewesen in Weimar an eine deutsch-italienische Forschungsreise nach Theth im Shalatal teil. Während eines längeren Aufenthaltes führte er dort Messungen von Körperteilen aus und untersuchte die körperlichen Eigenarten der Einwohner des Tales im Rahmen der Anthropometrie, ein Wissenschaftsfach, das zu seiner Zeit sehr von faschistischer Ideologie geprägt war und bald in Vergessenheit geraten sollte. Im Laufe seiner Forschung in Shala machte Schulz auch über zweihundert Aufnahmen albanischer Schulkinder in drei bzw. vier Ansichten und andere Bilder. Diese Fotografien, deren Verbleib heute unbekannt ist, wurden 1941 dem Archiv der Deutschen Akademie für Naturforscher in Halle übergeben. Übriggeblieben von Reimer Schulz sind lediglich wenige aber spektakuläre Aufnahmen einer Beerdigung in Theth, die in der Leipziger Zeitschrift <em>Atlantis</em> (Bd. 10, 1938, S. 257-259) veröffentlicht wurden und hier vorgestellt werden. Schulz hatte angefangen albanisch zu lernen und hatte vor, sein Material auf einer zweiten Reise nach Albanien zu ergänzen. Dieses Vorhaben wurde durch den Zweiten Weltkrieg verhindert. Reimer Schulz starb an der Ostfront am 14. Juli 1941.</p> <p> </p> <h4 id="AL">Koleksioni fotografik i Rajmer Shulcit (Reimer Schulz)<br /> <a href="#top" class="nav1">English</a> | <a href="#DE" class="nav1">Deutsch</a></h4> <h4><strong>Shqipëria e Veriut në vitet 1937</strong></h4> <p>Dr. Raimer Shulc (vd. 1941) ishte antropolog gjerman. Në vijim të punës së antropologut amerikan Karlltën Kun (Carleton Coon, 1904-1981) në vitet 1929-1930, Shulci kreu hulumtime shkencore të antropologjisë fizike në malet e Shqipërisë së Veriut. Në vitin 1937, ai mori pjesë në një ekspeditë gjermano-italiane në Theth të Dukagjinit në emër të një ashtuquajtur Enti Rajonal i Tyringisë për Çështje Racore (<em>Thüringisches Landesamt für Rassewesen)</em> në Vajmar. Gjatë një qëndrimi të gjatë në Theth, mati dimensione të trupave të banorëve të luginës së Shalës në kuadrin e degës shkencore të antropometrisë, e cila në atë kohë ishte mjaft e ndikuar nga ideologjia fashiste dhe më vonë ra pak a shumë në harresë. Gjatë hulumtimeve në Dukagjin, Shulci bëri edhe mbi dyqind fotografi të nxënësve të shkollës dhe foto të tjera. Koleksioni i tij u dhurua një arkivi në Hale (Halle) por, siç duket, u zhduk gjatë Luftës së Dytë Botërore. Ato që kanë mbetur nga vepra e Rajmer Shulcit janë disa fotografi të pakta të një varrimi tradicional në Theth që ai i botoi në revistën e Lajpcigut <em>Atlantis</em> (vëll. 10, 1938, f. 257-259) dhe që paraqiten këtu. Rajmer Shulci kishte ndërmend të plotësonte punën e tij antropologjike me një udhëtim të dytë në Theth dhe kishte filluar të mësonte shqip, por ndërkohë erdhi Lufta e Dytë Botërore. Vdiq ushtar në frontin rus më 14 korrik 1941.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </blockquote></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><blockquote> <img src="pfeil_o.gif" width="23" height="12" border="0" /><a href="javascript:scroll(0,0)"><strong>TOP</strong></a></blockquote></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

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