Bernd Scholze is a collector of the magic lantern for the past 30 years. He has done extensive research on the history of the lantern from the 17^th century to the early 20^th century. His research is focused on the magic lantern history in the German speaking regions.

Memberships:

Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain

The Magic Lantern Society of the United States and Canada

Freunde des Deutschen Filminstituts & Filmmuseums (Frankfurt am Main)

Papers:

The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and Religions: Imrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the Ottoman Empire, 1845-1846 in: Scientific instruments between East and West. Leiden: Brill 2019, p. 229-239

The beginnings of the modern toy industry in Germany: Peter Friedrich Catel and the first toy lanterns in:  Magic Lantern 1  (December 2014). Ripon: Magic Lantern Society. p. 1-10

Die Geistermaschine. Ein physikalisches Spielzeug zwischen Schein und Wirklichkeit in: Wunderkammer Waldenburg. Dresden 2023, p. 240-245

Die Laterna magica - ein Kulturgut inkognito? Die wechselvolle Gesichte eines optischen Instruments in: Technisches Kulturgut 2, Dresden & Jena 2024. p. 289-302

"Im Zauber des Lichts" Bilderwelten der Laterna Magica, Exhibition Catalogue Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark. With original texts by Bernd Scholze and Daniela Dietrich.

Exhibitions:

Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark Neu-Anspach: "Im Zauber des Lichts" Bilderwelten der Laterna magica. 3. März 2024 bis 28. Dezember 2025. 

A cooperation DFF Deutsches Filminstiut I Filmmuseum & Bernd Scholze

Magic Lantern Performances:

Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main

Optisches Museum, Jena

Universität Cologne  (Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung)

Cinematek Brussels, Belgium

Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium

Lichtspiel / Kinemathek, Bern

Lecturers:

Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission:

2016 Istanbul, Istanbul University "The magic lantern as intercultural ambassador between cultures and regligions: Imrich Emanuel Roth and the first dissolving-view shows in the Ottoman Empire 1845/1846"

2018 Haarlem, Tylers Museum "Talk of the town - a case study of the public experimentalist Peter Joseph Reuter in Braunschweig"

Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, various talks in London & Birmingham

B-MAGIC Final Conference Antwerp, May 2022