Beyond the Battlefields

20 October 2017 - 14 January 2018 

This exhibition focuses on the amateur photographer Käthe Buchler (1876-1930), whose work forms one of the featured collections of the Museum of Photography in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. Buchler photographed the German home front during the First World War.

Buchler’s black & white images feature her family and community, wounded soldiers returning from the front line and the nursing staff who treated them. This is the first time that her work has been displayed outside Germany. The photographs are being shown alongside material relating to the University of Birmingham’s role as a military hospital from 1914-1918 and the members of staff who were involved in the conflict. Shown together, these images, documents and objects show that the War had a similar impact on people from both Britain and Germany. Regardless of nationality, people’s lives were changed irrevocably by the trauma of global conflict.

The photographs will be shown alongside images, documents and objects related to the University of Birmingham’s role as a military hospital from 1914-1918 and the members of staff who were involved in the conflict.