Berliner Strasse (film set)

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Film set "Berliner Straße"

The so-called Berlin street was built for 15 years a film set in the grounds of the Babelsberg film studios in Potsdam district Babelsberg . It was built in 1998 and demolished between August and November 2013. In 2014, construction began on a new Berlin street , which went into operation in 2016 and is also marketed under the name Metropolitan Backlot .

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Even during the GDR era, DEFA had plans to build a full-scale street on the Babelsberg studio site as a permanent backdrop for outdoor shots. However, the project was not implemented for cost reasons. Since it became more and more difficult and expensive, especially for film adaptations with historical scenarios , to find suitable real streets and to prepare them appropriately for the epoch, the plan to build a large backdrop for this purpose was taken up again after the political change and German reunification , but initially did not last affordable.

In 1998, during the preparations for the production of the film Sonnenallee , it became clear that there was no real street in Berlin that met the requirements of the script, so that an extensive set of scenery was necessary. The film project made it possible to finance the long-planned construction. Under the direction of the production designer Rainer Schaper , a street was built within three months, the appearance of which did not imitate the actual Sonnenallee , but instead represented a fictional, but clearly recognizable Berlin area with old buildings from the Wilhelminian era and other stylistic set pieces.

Dimensions

The entire backdrop of the so-called Berliner Strasse took up an area of ​​around 7000 m², of which 3000 m² was paving and 1500 m² were sidewalks and open spaces. However, the values ​​fluctuated depending on the modifications made for film projects. Along the approximately 130-meter-long street, there were a total of 26 house facades on both sides that were up to 14 meters high. The façade backdrops were mounted on steel scaffolding so that extensive redesigns and conversions were also possible. To ensure stability, the steel structures were anchored nine meters deep in the ground.

use

Setting for the film The Pianist

A permanent outdoor setting like this one is unique in its type and size in Europe. Difficulties could be avoided here, which are unavoidable when filming in real inner-city streets. Since it was first used in Sonnenallee , Studio Babelsberg's Berliner Straße has served as a backdrop for over 350 film productions , including Herr Lehmann , Der Tunnel , Mein Führer , Der Pianist , Rosenstraße , Beyond the Sea , Tage des Zorns , Der Vorleser , Inglourious Basterds , Boxhagener Platz , Russendisko and Rubbeldiekatz   as well as television productions such as Night over Berlin and Our Mothers, Our Fathers .

A permanent team of over 30 people, which was enlarged if necessary, adapted the street to the requirements of the respective film production. While Berliner Straße mostly actually embodied a typical Berlin street of every era, it took on the shape of Paris , New York , Chicago , Copenhagen or Warsaw streets through redesign .

demolition

The grounds for the scenery were only leased. The backdrops were demolished at the end of 2013 for the expansion of the campus of the “Konrad Wolf” University of Film and Television and for the construction of apartments and a day care center .

New Berliner Strasse

The construction of the new and more modern exterior setting Neue Berliner Strasse began in 2014. For this purpose, land in the former factory halls of the Berlin plant of the mechanical engineering company Orenstein & Koppel was acquired for seven million euros . With around 15,000 m², it was planned to be more than twice as large as the previous Berliner Straße with around 7,000 m² (see section Dimensions ). The new building made of 500 tons of steel should cost eight and a half million euros. The foundation stone was laid on August 5, 2014; the actual construction was postponed to December 2015. An exterior backdrop with streets in different architectural styles was planned , consisting of classic facade recesses that can be used flexibly in combination with blue and green screen recording processes. Similar to Sonnenallee , a larger film project was required for the financing . When the financing of the television series Babylon Berlin for the first season seemed secure, construction began. In May 2016 the new Berliner Straße was opened and used for the TV series Babylon Berlin . For this purpose, four streets including a square were moved to Berlin in the 1920s. World icon

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  3. ↑ Sonnenallee border crossing , Lothar Holler
  4. ↑ a b Babelsberg builds "Neue Berliner Straße". In: Deutsche Welle. August 5, 2014, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ tip: "100 Years Babelsberg: Die Berliner Straße" , www.tip-berlin.de (accessed on February 27, 2012)
  6. ^ Studio Babelsberg: "Coproductions", www.studiobabelsberg.com (accessed on February 27, 2012)
  7. ↑ Self-portrait Studio Babelsberg, accessed on April 5, 2013
  8. ↑ a b A city for all occasions. Babelsberg is getting a new "Berliner Straße". In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, December 27, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Jana Haase: Facts about the quarter: The villas at the Filmpark: More than 100 years of film history . In: Potsdam's latest news . December 20, 2016 ( pnn.de [accessed April 13, 2017]).
  10. ^ A b Elmar Krekeler: A dream comes true, Berlin without Berliner - Neue Berliner Straße in the film studio. In: The world. WeltN24 GmbH, May 1, 2016, accessed on May 12, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Start of construction for “Neue Berliner Straße” in the Babelsberg studio. Berliner Morgenpost , December 15, 2015, archived from the original on April 16, 2019 .;
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  13. ↑ ARD and Sky cooperate with Tom Tykwer - Babylon Berlin becomes the most expensive German series. In: tagesspiegel.de , accessed on February 10, 2016

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