Stefanie Ketzscher

Stefanie Ketzscher is a curator and archivist. She worked together with Diethard Kerbs on the research project Photography and History and was subsequently managing director of the Agentur für Bilder zur Zeitgeschichte (Agency for Images of Contemporary History). There she was in charge of the Photothek Willy Römer. After numerous curatorial projects e.g. at Deutsche Historisches Museum, she has been entrusted with the acquisition and digitization of the image holdings of the Photothek Willy Römer for the Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz since 2010.

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Schaber’s contribution revisits her 2004 work culture is our business and considers the complex issues around these three agencies. At stake in these differences are how the image’s story should be told, and how this telling is embedded in the viewing and understanding of history.