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URBAN SKETCHERS GERMANY
Google map that has links to all of the Deutschsprachige (German-Speaking) USk Chapters. USk Germany is not centrally organized. Individual German chapters act independently and are organized differently. Most groups are Facebook groups that meet up to draw together. Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg have large groups. Other chapters, like the Rhein-Main Area (Frankfurt, Darmstadt, etc.) and the Ruhr Area (Cologne, Bonn, etc.), are organized as regions to attract more people.
USk Germany blog was first set up by Omar Jamarillo. Omar also set up the GermanSpeaking Urban Sketchers Facebook group, which he now administers along with Fabian Bartz and Katrin Merle. Omar, Katrin, Jutta Richter, and Smadar Ravee-Klemke manage the USk Marketplace group which they created for questions, workshops, books, and offers around the topic of urban sketching.
Omar Jaramillo was one of the first urban sketchers in Berlin and founded the group with some others, like Rolf Schroeter. Katrin Merle joined them in 2012. Now administered by Katrin, Thomas Lensky, and Eva Hoefflin, USk Berlin is very open and relaxed. Instead of waiting for admins to organize a meeting, members are encouraged to do it themselves. When they draw, everyone looks for their own subject matter rather than everyone sketching the same thing. The meetings in Berlin are organized irregularly, sometimes very spontaneously, and around 8 to 18 sketchers usually come, which makes it easier to find a suitable place (such as a café) to gather after sketching. Munich meets on a fixed day once a month. Hamburg also meets once a month, but not on a fixed day. Eutin, which started with an Urban Sketchers workshop in a local community school, has a large group, although it is a very small city.
From the very beginning, USk Germany wanted to include people from other German-speaking countries such as Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg, as well as Germanspeaking people abroad. In addition to the 12 official USk Regional Chapters, there are many Urban Sketcher groups in Germany and the surrounding area. Dietmar Stiller of USk Hannover created a very impressive interactive
USk Germany has its own mini symposium called USk Deutschland Treffen where German-speaking sketchers get together. Now held annually, this meeting started out in 2015 when Jenny Adam and Birgit Ruíz-Velasco, founders of USk Rhein-Main, had the idea to organize a meeting that would recreate the feeling of the USk Symposium. Sixty urban sketchers from all over Germany
AFTER THE 2011 URBAN SKETCHERS SYMPOSIUM IN LISBON, THE GERMAN SKETCHERS IN ATTENDANCE SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH EACH OTHER, AND AS A RESULT, DECIDED TO FORM THEIR OWN CHAPTER. BY CATHY GUTTERMAN
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