Our Number One subject is to delve into totally new visual worlds, to investigate surfaces and to stage-manage what lies behind them:
as adventure and wizardry and at the same time as one of the most precise instruments in the professional search for knowledge. Behind this successful project there are a number of people who all make their contribution to it. At KAGE, in addition to the assistants who keep the institute going, this is above all the KAGE family.

Chronology of KAGE’s Success

Hardly anyone can point to so many successful projects and first class references, whether in micro or macro photography, screen electron microscopy or micro and macro video. A brief survey of the successes and fields of activity of the KAGEs up to 2005

1957	Invention of the "Polychromator" for Science-Art-Pictures
1960	Establishment of "Institute for Scientific Photography and Cinematography" ("Institut für wissenschaftliche Fotografie und Kinematografie")
1961	Creation of the prize-winning 35 mm film "Die Feder" (The Feather) together with Kurt Hirschel
1964	Exhibit "Polychromatische Variationen" , 150 murals at the college of arts and crafts, Zurich (Switzerland)
1964	Invention of the "Audioscope" - a machine which makes music visible - for the exhibition booth of the company Braun at fairs in Frankfurt a.M. and Stuttgart
1970	Founding member of the BFF (Federation of Freelance Photographers)
1973	SICOF photo exhibit in Milan, Italy, with Duratrans and Cibachromes
1974	Multi-media concert in the "Prediger", Schwäbisch-Gmünd (Germany)
1975	Special effects for Salvador Dali's television film "Hommage à la haute Mongolie"
1977	Invention of the SEM-color, a colorising techniquefor Scanning Electron Micrographs . First multi color SEMs for prospects and brochures of ISI (International Scientific Instruments Inc., California)
1978	Photo book "Kunstformen der Technik" (Art forms of Technology), text by Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke
1978	Exhibit "Kaleidoscope of research and development" for SEL (Standard Electric Lorenz) at city hall, ("The Cobweb") Stuttgart
1980	Photo book "Faszination des Lebendigen" (Fascination of the Alive), text by Prof. Dr. W. Nachtigall
1985	Photo book "Siliziumwelt" (Silicon World) for IBM, text by Prof. Dr. H. W. Franke
1985	Micro and macro photography for the television film "Giftige Schönheiten des Mittelmeeres" (Poissonous beauties of the Mediterranean") in Spain, of the series "Expedition ins Tierreich" ("Expediton into the animal realm") by Heinz Sielmann
1985	Development and building of chemico-physical test equipment with live video for BASF at the DRUPA FAir in Duesseldorf
1988	Micro and macro photography for the television film "Poisonous animals of the Mediterranean" in Spain with Heinz Sielmann
1990-93	Three films for the Spektrum series "The Art of Science and Nature": Air sculptures, Crystal Journeys and Cosmos under Water
1991	3D multi-vision slide show "Our Mysterious Environment in 3D" in Taiwan, with Klaus Czich
1992	Production of a videofilm for the opening ceremony of the congress of the "German Society for Protozoology" ("Deutsche Gesellschaft für Protozoologie") in Berlin, directed by Prof. Dr. Klaus Hausmann
1992	Design of about 80 murals at the Bosch research center in Gerlingen, Germany
1993-94	Guest professor at the "Hochschule für Gestaltung" (University for Design) in Karlsruhe
1993	"Multimediale III", Karlsruhe.Multimedia-concert "Macrocosmos - Mesocosmos - Microcosmos" on 7 meter long canvases. Music by Gerald Wagner
1994	Prize-winning CD-ROM "Le monde de Pasteur" (Louis Pasteur's World), best scientific CD-ROM of the year, produced and directed by Titus Leber, Paris
1996	3D multi-vision slide show "Das phantastische Haus" (The Fantastic House) and "Die unendliche Reise der Wassertropfen" (The Endless Journey of the Water Drops) at the National Museum for Natural Science in Taichung, Taiwan, produced by Klaus Czich
1996-97	Exhibit "Mikroorganismen - Der etwas andere Kosmos" (Microorganisms - the somewhat different Cosmos) at Hamburg Waterworks and at the Rosenstein Museum, Stuttgart. Concept and design by Christina Kage; creation of the video film "Bilder einer Ausstellung" (Pictures of an Exhibition), directed and written by Christina Kage, produced by Walter Weber, RTC-Hamburg
1998	TV program "Mikrokosmos" (Microcosm) with Quarks & Co. together Gert Binning in Munich, Germany
1999	Exhibit "The Art of Biochemistry" for the Roche company at the Medica Fair in Duesseldorf
1999	Exhibit at the research center of the company Reemtsma in Hamburg
1999	BPhotos at the "Triennale der Photographie" in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, with a lecture at the symposium "Wohin kein Auge reicht" (Where no eye can see anymore) - " Visualization of the Invisible"
1999-2004	Illustration of business report BW Bank, Stuttgart
2000	Photos at the exhibition "Zeitblicke" (Views on Time), Stuttgart. 30 years of photography in Germany, 30 years of BFF
2000	Micro photography of Radiolaria in the picture book "Bionics" of Prof. Dr. W. Nachtigall and Kurt G. Blüchel
2001	Exhibit "The Endless Journey" in Hamburg for GEO ( see inaugural address of the editor-in-chief P.-M. Gaede about Mr. Kage). Pictures in the GEO photo-book "The Endless Journey".
2001	Double illustrated page in the book "Das Universum des Menschen" (The Universe of Man), pictures for the 25-year anniversary of GEO in Germany
2001	Children's book "Mensch und Co." (Man and company), all photographs of parasites are sponsored by Manfred and Christina Kage. Idea and Text by Jörg Blech
2002	Company Carl-Zeiss: 3-D images of insects of new stereo-microscope
2002	Digital video film ”Ocean Galaxy” (30 minutes) down for “Deutsche Microskopie Tage” in Hagen. (Germany)
2003	Scientific movie-presentation “Protista” (25 minutes) on the occasion of International Conference on the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Ciliates and Protozoa in connection with 22. Annual meeting of the German Society for Protozoology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2003	"Was ist Was” , Band 8, “Das Mikroskop", Tessloff Verlag, September 2003. The main part of illustrations are made from our archiv
2004	Bionic-Projekct "Evolution II" with Kurt Blüchel and Prof.Dr. Ingo Rechenberg "Radiolarian- and Diatom-Sceletons as a princple of modern architecture"
2004	GEO-Magazine, August 2004, "SAND" - Miracles in the beaches of the world
2004	3D portraits of insects for KUK-Filmproduktion, Munich, for the Federal Garden Show 2005
2004	Audiovisual presentation about the “Miracles of the Microworld” in the “Weinmann'schen Dorfmühle” in Hartmannshof, annual conference of the company Weinmann and Fuji-Hunt
2004	“STERN-TV” with Günther Jauch On 24.11.2004 live transmission of a 20 minute live show with Manfred and Christina KAGE on the subject of “Secrets of the Microcosmos”. Every drop of water is an unexplored ocean. On the home page of STERN-TV-RTL a report can be found in the archive.
2004	Photo contributions to new magazine issue “GEO-Kompakt No. 1”. The birth of the earth
2005	Photo contributions to magazine issue “GEO-Kompakt No. 2”. The miracle of man
2005	24th annual conference of the “German Society of Protozoology” DGP at Lichtenberg Castle/Palatinate. Video film about cilia
2005	Illustration of medicinal and spice plants in the scanning electron microscope for the “Annual Report 2004” of the Baden Württembergische Bank (BW-Bank)
2005	30th September 05: Hohenheim University, Euro-Forum: “Chemistry under the microscope”. Presentation and multimedia show
2005	University of Constance: Presentation: “Visualisation of the invisible”. The microscope stands in the centre between biophysics, chemistry, the nano world and the riddle of life. We ask ourselves: what’s behind all this? And how can we learn from nature?
2005	Micro video shots for the film “The Fisherman and his Wife” by Doris Dörrie
2006	Video film "Secret world of Protists" marking 25 years of the German Society of Protozoology” DGP, in Berlin
2006	Cover and many pictures in coffee table book “The Fascination of Bionics” - The Intelligence of Creation; Edited and published by K.G. Blüchel and F. Malik
2006	Presentation, slide show and film in conjunction with the exhibition “Art Forms of the Sea” in Tübingen Municipal Museum, in cooperation with Tübingen University