Greetings from the International Doll Museum in Flateyri
Monday, October 21, 2024
Dr Senta sorting and placing with volunteer Sabine and Sigga from the museum fund
Labels: Cultura e V, DGFK e V Berlin, Dr Senta Siller, HAATC Bamenda, Lum Theresa, Nauen, Njini Victor Ndu
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:49 AM,
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Project Publications
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Publications:
Catalogue, 46 p., © 2015
Compilation, 60 p.,© 2021
SSI 88, 110 p., © 2023
Paper Cut, 36 p.,© 2024
Musicales, 56 p., © 2024
AphoMics, 44 p., © 2024
KOB, 44 p., © 2024
Puppetery, 88 p., © 2024
Naturales, 50 p., © 2024
Materiales, 34 p., © 2024
Fairytales and Toys, 36 p., © 2024
Marketing, 50p. © 2024
Social, 36 p., © 2024
Training, 40 p. , © 2024
Research, 40 p., © 2024
Privado, 112 p., © 2025
and compiled from the archives /SentaSillerArchiv-Landgut Stober-Cultura e.V. Nauen + ForZat-HVK-DGFK e.V. Berlin
Al Andalus 1954, 44 p., © 2023
Greece 1955, 44 p., © 2023
Three Little Dragon 1967, 24 p., © 2024
Marienleben 1970, 40 p., © 2023
Gnomi, 1985, 56 p., © 1985
Senta Maria Anna Siller (née Zmavc in Vienna) is a German designer, calligrapher, entrepreneur, organizer and project initiator. She was born in Vienna as one of six siblings. She is the great-niece of the illustrator Ernst Kutzer and the niece of the archaeologist Herrmann Vetters. After the war she grew up in Franconia, Germany. Between 1962 and 1988 she raised four children in Berlin. She owes her socialization to the living conditions after the Second World War. To improve her family's support, she earned money early on with paper cuttings and illustrations for newspapers in Bavarian newspapers. She studied graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts under Richard Blank (1901-1972, designer, calligrapher). As a graphic designer she received commissions in the areas of exhibition and trade fair construction, children's clothing, toys and book illustration. Further studies followed at the Technical University of Berlin, where she studied archaeology, philosophy, education and art history. She wrote her dissertation on the life and work of Carl Otto Czeschka. At the same time, she ran a children's clothing retail company and, as student director at the Berlin Lette-Verein, headed training in photography, graphic design and fashion design.
Since the 1970s, Siller has been collaborating with N. Pintsch in the German Society for the Promotion of Culture (DGFK, also in Berlin), a volunteer-run and privately financed association for the promotion of culture in various foreign projects. She developed projects in which scientific research results on traditional culture were to be used to develop income-generating measures for women in rural areas and to stem the rural exodus.
Her work has been exhibited at home and abroad and has been recognized with awards and medals. What is special about her work is its altruism and intercultural cooperation. She continues to work on a voluntary basis (Cultura e.V. on the Stober estate in Gross Behnitz/Nauen.
© Copyright Senta Siller / DGFK e.V. Berlin Idea: Sigrun Martzinger The proceeds from sales go to support women's self-help projects in Pakistan, Cameroon, Colombia and Iceland.
Labels: Camcatbam, Dr Senta Siller, Spathcameroon
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:52 AM,
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Booklets from Senta Siller
Friday, April 5, 2024
Labels: Dr Senta Siller, Publications
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:48 AM,
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Kunsthaus Dahlem Lyceum Club England
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Labels: CAT, Exhibition, Kids Club
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:52 AM,
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Bartolome de las Casas and Hans Knoepfli
Monday, September 18, 2023
Bartolome de las Casas (1484-1566) worked in Central America and Hans Knoepfli (1927-2023) in the Cameroonian grasslands; Both were connected to the organization of the church, but both are committed to preserving the traditional structures. De las Casas worked against enslavement, Knoepfli against the selling off of traditional values. Both worked on location - Being recognized for their work was not their main concern!
In our present time of global-digital-unification, it is of utter important to preserve the traditional-analogue-system, - without taking into account the influence of mass tourism, job creations, pseudo-inter-relationships, - the pseudo-values of the current time!
Academic institutions and their allies cannot carry out this task, - their stubbornness hinders and prevents them!
For this purpose and for this reason, there is a need to make efforts and carry out in-depth research, ignoring the prevailing and adopted values in order to create awareness about traditional values!
Labels: Amjad Ali Thatta Ghulamka Dhriroka, Cultura e V Nauen, DGFK e V Berlin, Ignatius Nji Bamenda, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch IPC, Romillio Rodriguez Fajardo Chiquinquira
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:16 AM,
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Of the Power of the Small
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
by
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
No matter what is conceived or initiated, - more or less quickly the thought process moves to mass thinking and mass production; The motive in the background is to be able to participate in global events.
Even if such thought processes are understandable due to the global spree, still the preservation and support of small-scale and unspectacular projects are necessary.
It is not the globalization and digitization that represents the basis for the future, but the increasingly disappearing analog, the cultural asset that has emerged at some point - similar to the arctic seed vault in Spitzergen in the area of plants and horticulture.
It is urgently needed to support the delicate shoots of such projects is urgently needed, including the preservation of the environment.
The usual commercialization of such projects is counterproductive and destructive!
Labels: Alahkie, Bamenda RUC, CAT, Cultura e V Nauen, DGFK e V Berlin, Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:08 PM,
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Announcement - Annonce
Thursday, February 16, 2023
This should not be understood as a homage to a person who always rejected such endeavors, but rather as an appreciation of an unusual idea, namely income-generating measures for people in rural areas, based on traditional culture and using local resources, and highlighting the selflessness of the project. This stands in complete contrast to the prevailing and increasingly growing global effort towards equalization of all cultures, discounting the fact that they are the real wealth of a country. Wealth is irrevocably lost in the onslaught of technology euphorics.
Senta Siller has worked in different positions and countries throughout her life. In more than 75 years of activity, she has met countless people, a large number of whom can no longer be interviewed. In this writing, however, a few voices were able to have their say, in which they fondly remember their encounters with this unusual woman, not only in her doll-making projects.
Rarely do we meet people who are unselfishly active for society's benefit.
The present publication intends to stimulate the reader in the undertaking, in the sense of making a certain effort, even if everything else speaks against it, - all for the welfare of the general public, even if such projects, as initiated by SSi and implemented with the help of many volunteers, are directed completely opposite to the global and digital mainstream.
The editors would like to thank all the people, organizations, and institutions involved who have supported and continue to support the work and ideas of SSi.
Labels: Senta Siller, SSi
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5:07 PM,
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Handicrafts From Cameroon 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022
Labels: CAT - Bamenda, DGFK e V Berlin, Lum Theresia, Senta Siller, Stella Pachon, Tanto mejor - Saboya, Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:51 PM,
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