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CineGraph - Hamburg Center for Film Research eV is a German film institute. It conveys the results of film historical research through congresses and retrospectives, seminars, exhibitions, publications and multimedia. It advises and supports research projects on film and media history. CineGraph explores film history as media history, i.e. as a representation of the complex interactions between aesthetics, technology, politics and economy in a contemporary context.

history

The work of CineGraph is based on developments in the late 1970s, when Hans-Michael Bock and Hans Helmut Prinzler designed a bio-filmographic loose-leaf lexicon: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film , an internationally recognized standard work, has been published as a loose-leaf collection since 1984 the edition text + kritik , Munich, and is supplemented annually with two to three deliveries and updates.

After the first international film history congress about the Hamburg-born film director and actor Reinhold Schünzel , the registered association CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e. V. founded as a legal entity for the expanding activities.

With the approval of Hans-Michael Bock , the now internationally established name CineGraph was adopted for the association. The work of CineGraph is financially supported by the Hamburg cultural authority. CineGraph has been a member of the German Kinemathekenverbund since February 2001 .

CineGraph operates an extensive film and biographical database (CineBase) and, together with the German Film Institute (DFI), designed and built the Internet portal www.filmportal.de. CineGraph works with numerous national and international film institutes for events and publications.

Events

Since 1988, CineGraph has organized the international film history congress annually, initially with the support of the GDR State Film Archive , and since 2001 with the Federal Film Archive as co-organizer.

The topics at the Film History Congress were:

  • 1988 - Reinhold Schünzel - sensual villain, lively comedian on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Hamburg-born actor and director
  • 1989 - rags and silk - Richard Oswald , director and producer
  • 1990 - Agents, Adventure & Amours - The studio worlds of director and producer Joe May
  • 1991 - Grand Hotel Babylon - The Night Worlds by the author and director EA Dupont
  • 1992 - London Calling - Germans in British film of the 1930s
  • 1993 - Black Dream and White Slave - German-Danish Film Relations 1910-1920
  • 1994 - Fantaisies russes - Russian filmmakers in Berlin and Paris 1920-1930
  • 1995 - Allô? Berlin? Ici Paris! - Franco-German film relations between the world wars
  • 1996 - Trivial Tropics. The exotic travel and adventure film in Germany 1919-1939
  • 1997 - ... from the spirit of the operetta. Music theater and dance culture in German film 1922-1937
  • 1998 - When the pictures learned to sing. The Crisis and Golden Age of International Music Films, 1925-38
  • 1999 - CinErotikon. Sexuality between Enlightenment and Exploitation in the Weimar Republic
  • 2000 - German Universal . Transatlantic distribution and production strategies for a Hollywood studio
  • 2001 - 3 × additional number . A German-American producer family between Europe and Hollywood
  • 2002 - Sound film peace / sound film war. The story of Tobis from technology syndicate to state company
  • 2003 - Allies for the film. Arnold Pressburger , Gregor Rabinowitsch and the Cine Alliance

In 2004 the CineFest - International Festival of German Film Heritage was launched, which takes place annually in November. The Film History Congress continues to be an important part of the festival. Parts of the festival program will then go on tour to Berlin ( Zeughauskino in the German Historical Museum ), Prague ( nfa - Narodní filmový archiv ), Wiesbaden ( Murnau-Filmtheater ), Zurich ( Filmpodium Zürich ) and other European cities.

Awards

At the international silent film festival Le giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone , CineGraph was awarded the festival plaque in 2007 for its services to film heritage .

Prices

At the CineFest to mark the opening of the festival, the Reinhold Schünzel Prize is awarded for services to German film heritage. The Willy Haas Prize is awarded to publications on German-language film.

The Reinhold Schünzel Prize received:

  • 2004 Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, long-time film program manager at the Goethe-Haus New York;
  • 2005 Manfred Klaue, former director of the State Film Archive of the GDR and President of the international association of film archives FIAF , Erkner;
  • 2006 the Italian film historian Vittorio Martinelli (†);
  • 2007 the film historian Gero Gandert , Berlin;
  • 2008 Vladimír Opěla, former director of the NFA - Národní filmový archiv, Prague;
  • 2009 the film journalist Volker Baer, ​​Berlin;
  • 2010 the film scholar Heide Schlüpmann, Frankfurt;
  • 2011 Barton Byg, founder of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
  • 2012 the French film historian Bernard Eisenschitz, Paris;
  • 2013 the film journalist and critic Wolfram Schütte , Frankfurt;
  • 2014 the film historian Horst Claus, Bristol;
  • 2015 Vera Gyürey, former director of the Hungarian Film Archive, Budapest;
  • 2016 the exile researcher and film scholar Heike Klapdor, Berlin;
  • 2017 the American film historian Lenny Borger, Paris.

Publications

After each congress, a publication (CineGraph book) appears in edition text + kritik with the knowledge gained and documenting the latest state of research.

In addition, numerous German and international publications have appeared in collaboration with CineGraph, including:

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner of the Reinhold Schünzel Prize