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Wir möchten Ihnen den CrossAsia Talk mit dem Titel: „A Sample of Chinese Medicine for 17th-Century Europe“ von Gianna Pomata und Marta Hanson ankündigen. Er wird am 7. November 2024 ab 18 Uhr (UTC+1) online stattfinden. Sie werden darstellen, wie Ideen der traditionellen chinesischen Medizin im 17. Jahrhundert ihren Weg nach Europa gefunden haben und wie der Wissenstransfer zu jener Zeit funktionierte.

Our lecture will focus on a book that played a key role in the introduction of Chinese medicine to Europe: Specimen Medicinae Sinicae sive Opuscula Medica ad Mentem Sinensium (A Sample of Chinese Medicine, or Brief Medical Works According to the Mind of the Chinese: Frankfurt am Main, 1682). The only extant manuscript of this book and some preparatory materials are held at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Specimen included various writings, some presented as translation from the Chinese into Latin. Equipped with illustrations drawn from Chinese sources, the book dealt with basic Chinese physiological, anatomical, and therapeutic notions, mostly related to pulse medicine. No European authors or translators were acknowledged, except for the editor Andreas Cleyer, a German medical practitioner in the service of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia (present-day Jakarta).

In our lecture, we will describe our collaborative research on this text. Many questions were still unanswered when we started our project. Who wrote Specimen? Who translated the Chinese texts included in it? Centuries of controversies had obscured Specimen’s authorship. Recent research, including our own, has indicated with reasonable certainty that the Jesuit China missionaries Michael Boym and Philippe Couplet translated or otherwise wrote most of the texts assembled in Specimen. We have also identified some of the Chinese writings chosen for translation and we have compared these Chinese originals with their Latin rendering. Finally, we have traced Specimen’s journey from China, where the book was written, to Dutch Batavia, where the manuscript was lost and found, to Frankfurt, where it was finally published. The appearance of the book in Europe required the transnational collaboration of three sets of people across the globe: some Jesuits in the China mission, such as Boym and Couplet, who authored the translations; a medical practitioner of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, Andreas Cleyer, who collected fragments of their work; and on the receiving end of the network, an association of learned physicians, the German Academia naturae curiosorum, who sponsored the publication.

Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Bei Fragen kontaktieren Sie uns gern über folgende Mailadresse: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.  Die Veranstaltung wird aufgezeichnet.*

Der Vortrag wird via Webex gestreamt und aufgezeichnet. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.

Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an.

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We would like to announce the CrossAsia Talk entitled: „A Sample of Chinese Medicine for 17th-Century Europe“ by Gianna Pomata and Marta Hanson. It will take place online on November 7, 2024 from 6 pm (UTC+1). They will discuss how ideas of traditional Chinese medicine first came to Europe in the 17th century and how the transfer of knowledge worked at that time.

Our lecture will focus on a book that played a key role in the introduction of Chinese medicine to Europe: Specimen Medicinae Sinicae sive Opuscula Medica ad Mentem Sinensium (A Sample of Chinese Medicine, or Brief Medical Works According to the Mind of the Chinese: Frankfurt am Main, 1682). The only extant manuscript of this book and some preparatory materials are held at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Specimen included various writings, some presented as translation from the Chinese into Latin. Equipped with illustrations drawn from Chinese sources, the book dealt with basic Chinese physiological, anatomical, and therapeutic notions, mostly related to pulse medicine. No European authors or translators were acknowledged, except for the editor Andreas Cleyer, a German medical practitioner in the service of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia (present-day Jakarta).

In our lecture, we will describe our collaborative research on this text. Many questions were still unanswered when we started our project. Who wrote Specimen? Who translated the Chinese texts included in it? Centuries of controversies had obscured Specimen’s authorship. Recent research, including our own, has indicated with reasonable certainty that the Jesuit China missionaries Michael Boym and Philippe Couplet translated or otherwise wrote most of the texts assembled in Specimen. We have also identified some of the Chinese writings chosen for translation and we have compared these Chinese originals with their Latin rendering. Finally, we have traced Specimen’s journey from China, where the book was written, to Dutch Batavia, where the manuscript was lost and found, to Frankfurt, where it was finally published. The appearance of the book in Europe required the transnational collaboration of three sets of people across the globe: some Jesuits in the China mission, such as Boym and Couplet, who authored the translations; a medical practitioner of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia, Andreas Cleyer, who collected fragments of their work; and on the receiving end of the network, an association of learned physicians, the German Academia naturae curiosorum, who sponsored the publication.

The lecture will be held in English. If you have any questions, please contact us at the following e-mail address: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de. The event will be filmed.*

The lecture will be streamed via Webex. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.

You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X.

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Am 17. Oktober ab 18 Uhr wird Herr Prof. Dr. Vladimir Glomb (Freie Universität Berlin) in seinem Onlinevortrag „The Master said (in Korean)…: Vernacular exegesis (ŏnhae) and Confucian classics“ einen Einblick in seine Forschung zu koreanischen Übersetzungsstrategien aus dem Chinesischen anhand der Vier Bücher aus dem Bestand der Staatsbibliothek geben.

The so-called Sasŏ ŏnhae 四書諺解 (Vernacular Exegesis of the Four Books) 1820 edition from the Coreanica collection of the Berlin State Library (shelfmark Libri cor. 12) is a fine example of texts illustrating problems related to language strategies employed by Chosŏn state and literati in rendering texts written in the Classical Chinese into their vernacular versions. The present talk will focus on the purpose, authority, and canonicity of these vernacular versions of the Confucian classics.  Through the analysis of materials from the Four Books (Daxue, Lunyu, Mengzi, Zhongyong), we will try to detect the motivations behind the commissioning of these texts, the translation strategies employed, and, above all, the success or failure of their supposed goal to make Classical Chinese texts more accessible to a less educated audience.

Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Bei Fragen kontaktieren Sie uns unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

Der Vortrag wird via Webex gestreamt*. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.

Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an.

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On 17 October at 6 pm, Prof. Dr Vladimir Glomb (Freie Universität Berlin) will give an online lecture entitled „The Master said (in Korean)…: Vernacular exegesis (ŏnhae) and Confucian classics“ will give an insight into his research on Korean translation strategies from Chinese using the Four Books from the State Library’s collection.

The so-called Sasŏ ŏnhae 四書諺解 (Vernacular Exegesis of the Four Books) 1820 edition from the Coreanica collection of the Berlin State Library (shelfmark Libri cor. 12) is a fine example of texts illustrating problems related to language strategies employed by Chosŏn state and literati in rendering texts written in the Classical Chinese into their vernacular versions. The present talk will focus on the purpose, authority, and canonicity of these vernacular versions of the Confucian classics.  Through the analysis of materials from the Four Books (Daxue, Lunyu, Mengzi, Zhongyong), we will try to detect the motivations behind the commissioning of these texts, the translation strategies employed, and, above all, the success or failure of their supposed goal to make Classical Chinese texts more accessible to a less educated audience.

The lecture will be held in English. If you have any questions, please contact us: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

The lecture will be streamed via Webex*. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.

You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X.

*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.

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Im Rahmen seines Vortrages „Pekingologie und wissenschaftliche China-Expertise in Deutschland nach 1949: Zur Scharnierfunktion des Sinologen Wolfgang Franke (1912–2007)“ am 28. November 2024 ab 18 Uhr wird Herr Stefan Messingschlager (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg) Einblicke in die Rolle und Praxis wissenschaftlicher China-Expertise nach 1949 geben. Dabei wird er besonderen Fokus auf den Hamburger Sinologen Wolfgang Franke legen, dem in den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten eine herausragende Bedeutung für die transkulturelle und politische Vermittlung zwischen China und dem „Westen“ zukam. Neben seiner Expertenrolle in Politik und öffentlichem Diskurs hatte Wolfgang Franke auch eine Scharnierfunktion zwischen universitärer Sinologie und außeruniversitärer China-Expertise inne, so der Referent – und förderte so die Etablierung der gegenwartsbezogenen Chinaforschung in der Bundesrepublik.

Mit der Ausrufung der Volksrepublik China im Oktober 1949 wurde das Land für westliche Gesellschaften innerhalb kurzer Zeit zu einer Art Blackbox. In den meisten westlichen Staaten entwickelte sich vor diesem Hintergrund die Praxis der „China-Expertise“ – eine vielfältige, auf den öffentlichen Raum gerichtete Tätigkeit des Deutens, Beratens und Vermittelns, die unterschiedlichste Formen annahm: von der Deutung und Vermittlung im öffentlichen Diskurs über Politikberatung bis hin zur vermittelnden Praxis im transnationalen Austausch in den Bereichen Diplomatie, Wirtschaft und Kultur.

Anders als in den USA war China-Expertise in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Phase des sogenannten „Great Interregnums“ der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre nicht in erster Linie ein wissenschaftliches Projekt, sondern wurde vor allem von „Old-China-Hands“ wie Lily Abegg oder Klaus Mehnert getragen. Trotzdem spielte auch die Wissenschaft von Anfang an eine wichtige Rolle, interessanterweise jedoch gerade nicht die Sinologie, die sich bis weit in die 1970er Jahre vor allem als philologische Disziplin verstand. Stattdessen waren es Politikwissenschaftler wie Gottfried-Karl Kindermann und Jürgen Domes, die prägende Deutungsangebote zur chinesischen Politik entwickelten. Jenseits der universitären Chinaforschung waren es aber vor allem die neu gegründeten Forschungsinstitutionen wie das Institut für Asienkunde (IfA) und die Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), die zu entscheidenden Trägern wissenschaftlicher China-Expertise wurden und ab den 1970er Jahren politikberatende Funktionen übernahmen.

In diesem Kontext avancierte der Sinologe Wolfgang Franke zu einer Schlüsselfigur: Er lieferte mit seinen Schriften nicht nur breit rezipierte Deutungen, wirkte politikberatend und vermittelte in den deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen. Als wohl renommiertester Lehrstuhlinhaber für Sinologie in Deutschland förderte er auch eine stärkere Gegenwartsorientierung der Sinologie – ein entscheidender Schritt zur Etablierung der gegenwartsbezogenen Chinaforschung in der Bundesrepublik.

Die Vortragssprache ist Deutsch. Bei Fragen kontaktieren Sie uns unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

Der Vortrag wird darüber hinaus via Webex gestreamt und aufgezeichnet*. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.

Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an. Weitere Informationen zum Leben und Wirken von Wolfgang Franke finden Sie im vom Vortragenden, Herrn Messingschlager, erstellten CrossAsia Themenportal „Im Banne Chinas“ – Der Sinologe Wolfgang Franke als Forscher Mittler.

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The lecture ‘Pekingology and scientific China expertise in Germany after 1949: On the hinge function of the sinologist Wolfgang Franke (1912-2007)’ on November 28, 2024  from 6 pm, Mr. Stefan Messingschlager (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg) will provide insights into the role and practice of scholarly China expertise after 1949. He will place special focus on the Hamburg Sinologist Wolfgang Franke, who played a pivotal role in the postwar decades in facilitating transcultural and political mediation between China and the “West”. In addition to his role as an expert in politics and public discourse, Wolfgang Franke also served as a bridge between Sinology and China expertise outside academia, thereby advancing the establishment of contemporary China studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.

With the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949, the country quickly became a kind of black box for Western societies. In most Western states, the practice of “China expertise” developed in response – a multifaceted practice aimed at the public sphere that involved interpreting, advising, and mediating, taking various forms: from interpretation and mediation in public discourse to policy advising and intermediary practices in the transnational exchange of diplomacy, economics, and culture.

Unlike in the United States, China expertise in the Federal Republic of Germany during the so-called “Great Interregnum” of the 1950s to the 1970s was not primarily an academic endeavor but was largely shaped by „Old China Hands“ such as Lily Abegg and Klaus Mehnert. However, from the outset, academia also played a role, though interestingly not through Sinology, which until well into the 1970s primarily understood itself as a philological discipline. Instead, political scientists like Gottfried-Karl Kindermann and Jürgen Domes developed important interpretative frameworks for Chinese politics. Beyond China research in academia, it was particularly the newly founded research institutions, such as the Institute of Asian Studies (IfA) and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), that became key contributors to scholarly China expertise and, from the early 1970s onward, increasingly assumed advisory roles in policy matters.

In this context, Sinologist Wolfgang Franke became a key figure: not only did he contribute significant interpretations of China through his writings, but he also engaged in policy advising and facilitated Sino-German relations. As perhaps the most renowned Sinology chairholder in Germany, he also promoted a stronger contemporary focus within Sinology – a crucial step in establishing contemporary China studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The lecture will be held in German. If you have any questions, please contact us: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de.

The lecture will also be streamed and recorded via Webex*. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.

You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X. Further information on the life and work of Wolfgang Franke can be found in the CrossAsia thematic portal ‘Im Banne Chinas’ – Der Sinologe Wolfgang Franke als Forscher Mittler, created by the lecturer Mr. Messingschlager.

*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.

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Unser Stipendiat Herr TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, Neuseeland) hält am 14. Mai ab 18 Uhr einen Vortrag zu seinem aktuellen Forschungsthema „Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context“ im Simon-Bolivar-Saal bzw. online via Webex.  Der Vortrag findet in Kooperation mit der SBB Wissenswerkstatt statt, da Herr Tang Sanjiao derzeit im Rahmen eines Forschungsaufenthaltes, finanziert über das Stipendienprogramm der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, an der Staatsbibliothek forscht.

In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.

Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.

Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.

The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.

Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch. Wir bitten Sie um Voranmeldung für den Vortrag unter: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de und eine kurze Mitteilung, falls Sie einen barrierefreien Zugang benötigen. Die Veranstaltung wird gefilmt.*

Der Vortrag wird darüber hinaus via Webex gestreamt und aufgezeichnet. Sie können am Vortrag über Ihren Browser ohne Installation einer Software teilnehmen. Klicken Sie dazu unten auf „Zum Vortrag“, folgen dem Link „Über Browser teilnehmen“ und geben Ihren Namen ein.

Alle bislang angekündigten Vorträge finden Sie hier. Die weiteren Termine kündigen wir in unserem Blog und auf unserem X-Account an.

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The scholarship holder Mr. TANG Sanjiao (University of Auckland, New Zealand) will give a lecture on his current research topic „Lives in Mao-Era Militias under the Mass Mobilisation and Militarisation Context“ in the Simon-Bolivar-Saal and online via Webex on 14 May from 6 pm. This lecture will take place in cooperation with the Wissenswerkstatt, as he is currently working at the Staatsbibliothek as part of a research stay funded by the grant program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

In China today, the younger generations are having militarised experiences. Admittedly, military training is a routine thing for students in many countries. Currently, the reviving nationalist trend is making the Chinese young people’s military training different. On the video-sharing platforms popular in China, such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), with keywords like “students’ military training,” tens of thousands of videos are well-received. As vividly shown in the videos, the Chinese young people, including children in kindergartens, were learning to have simulative combat with imaginary enemies. Indulging them in burning passion, the younger generations feel as if they were glorious soldiers fighting for the nation.

Surprisingly, many of these young people’s grandparents had paralleling militarised lives when they were young. It was the experiences of being involved in the Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation, becoming members of Mao’s militias. In the early 1960s, despite the famine causing tens of millions of deaths, the country was celebrating its militias nationwide maintaining a scale of over two hundred million members. In the mid-1960s, Chinese residents were mobilised to “prepare earlier for fighting a war, a big war, and even a nuclear war.” Resulting from the mass mobilisation and militarisation, as demonstrated by a well-known slogan, seven hundred million Chinese people had all “become soldiers” (qiyi renmin qiyi bing). While it was rhetorically exaggerating, it indicated that the younger generations in Mao’s China were involved as the core forces in the militias.

Through revisiting the experiences of joining Mao-era militias, this research aims to reconsider the legacies of Mao-era mass mobilisation and militarisation. How did the lives in militias shaped their adolescence and early adulthood physically, psychologically, and profoundly? Benefitting from unique sources in the Berlin State Library, this project intends to answer these questions.

The results of the project contribute to understanding the mass-based legacies of Mao-era mobilisation and militarisation. Paying attention to the transgenerational resonance on young people’s involvement in war-preparing campaigns, it helps rethink today’s China, which is an urgent task for not only academics but also analysts and policy-makers worldwide.

The lecture will be held in English. We kindly ask you to register in advance at: ostasienabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de, and to let us know if you need barrier-free access. The event will be filmed.*

The lecture will also be streamed and recorded via Webex. You can take part in the lecture using your browser without having to install a special software. Please click on the respective button “To the lecture” below, follow the link “join via browser” (“über Browser teilnehmen”), and enter your name.

You can find all previously announced lectures here. We will announce further dates in our blog and on X.

*Mit Ihrer Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung räumen Sie der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und ihren nachgeordneten Einrichtungen kostenlos alle Nutzungsrechte an den Bildern/Videos ein, die während der Veranstaltung von Ihnen angefertigt wurden. Dies schließt auch die kommerzielle Nutzung ein. Diese Einverständniserklärung gilt räumlich und zeitlich unbeschränkt und für die Nutzung in allen Medien, sowohl für analoge als auch für digitale Verwendungen. Sie umfasst auch die Bildbearbeitung sowie die Verwendung der Bilder für Montagen. / By participating, you grant the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and its subordinate institutions free of charge all rights of usage of pictures and videos taken of you during this lecture presentation. This declaration of consent is valid in terms of time and space without restrictions and for usage in all media, including analogue and digital usage. It includes image processing and the usage of photos in composite illustrations. German law will apply.