Kaiserpanorama

When Emperor panoramic ( also Kaiser- Panorama ) refers to a popular around the turn of the 20th century mass media, which enabled simultaneously up to 25 people to view stereoscopic images series. On display were mainly exotic and unaffordable for ordinary citizens destinations and landscapes. A round behind a cylindrical wood paneling automatically transported in the loop series lasted half an hour.

This massive commercial use of stereoscopy for educational and entertainment purposes has been driven since 1880 by the German physicist and entrepreneur August Fuhrmann ( 1844-1925 ) in different cities of Central Europe. By 1910, there were corresponding branches in about 250 cities; more than 100,000 stereoscopic images circulated in Ringleihe. Original authentic Imperial panoramas can be found today in the city museums of Munich and Wels, in the German Historical Museum and the Mark Brandenburg Museum in Berlin and in Neugersdorf ( Upper Lusatia ). A Friends of making every effort to propagation, it also circulate copies. In Vienna there was an original Kaiserpanorama on Schubert ring until 1955. Warsaw is a Kaiserpanorama device, called " Fotoplastikon ", operated, that is at its original location since 1905.

The Kaiser Panorama also found several times a literary echo, among others, Hermann Broch ( in: The Sleepwalkers ) and Walter Benjamin ( in: Berlin Childhood around 1900, and one-way street )