π+Photoproduction aboveEγ=1GeV near the Forward Direction

${\pi }^{+}$ photoproduction is considered near the forward direction and at medium high energies $1<\mathrm{}{E}_{\gamma }<3\mathrm{}$ GeV. It is shown that with a simple isobar ansatz in fixed-$t$ dispersion relations one is able to predict the main features of the angular distributions in the region which is covered by recent measurements at DESY. The results indicate the importance of certain contact contributions of the resonances which are not taken into account by the peripheral models presented up to now.