German Kinemathek
The Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a German film archive based in Berlin that contributes significantly to the preservation and communication of German and international film heritage .
When the Deutsche Kinemathek moved into the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz in September 2000, the Berlin Film Museum was opened to which the television division was affiliated in 2006 . The name was changed to Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television . Since then, parts of the archive holdings have been exhibited in the permanent film and television exhibition as well as in changing special exhibitions in the Museum for Film and Television of the Deutsche Kinemathek.
history
The Deutsche Kinemathek was officially opened on February 1, 1963, which was founded as a registered association on April 6, 1962. The foundation stone was formed by two collections purchased by the Berlin Senate, which the State of Berlin entrusted to the newly registered association for administration and storage. On the one hand, the extensive collection of the director Gerhard Lamprecht , which comprised a large inventory of films, documents, materials and film technical equipment, and the Albert Fidelius collection, who had collected short fiction films, newsreels and preview advertisements among other things from the descendants of a film distributor since 1933. Gerhard Lamprecht became the first director of the association. Even then, the establishment of a film museum, with financial support from the federal government and the state of Berlin, was the goal of the association.
After provisional accommodation in different locations in Berlin and the transfer of the association to a foundation under public law on February 1, 1971, the Deutsche Kinemathek moved to the Deutschlandhaus at Pommernallee 1 in 1971, where the German Film and Television Academy had also been located since 1966 .
Through acquisitions, exchanges and donations, the foundation has become one of the most important collections of film history in Europe. As such, she participates in the national and international exchange of film copies and specialist knowledge, which was already announced when she joined the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF for short) in 1965 and what was contractually regulated with her membership in the German Cinematheque Association from 1979 Merger of German film archives when the direction was confirmed.
When the Deutsche Kinemathek moved into the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz in September 2000, it opened the Berlin Film Museum, to which the television exhibition was affiliated in 2006 . The name was changed to Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television .
Tasks and organization
The Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation has set itself the task of documenting and reviewing the history of film and television and promoting scientific and educational discussion of it. It is dedicated to collecting and preserving valuable film material such as material that is historically significant and promotes the communication of the audiovisual heritage with its own exhibitions, educational offerings, film series and other events. The films from the archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek are loaned out for non-commercial purposes. As a distributor, the Kinemathek also looks after the productions of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). Since 1977, the Kinemathek has also been in charge of the historical film retrospectives as part of the Berlin International Film Festival .
The Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation currently employs around 60 people. After the death of long-time director Heinz Rathsack in 1990, film historian Hans Helmut Prinzler took over the management of the cinematheque. In 2006 Rainer Rother was appointed artistic director. Paul Klimpel was at his side as Administrative Director until March 2012, followed by Maximilian Müllner from 2012 to 2017. Florian Bolenius has been administrative director since August 2017 and, together with Rainer Rother, forms the board of the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen.
Publications
The Deutsche Kinemathek also publishes literature - primarily on German film and its history - including the journals Recherche Film und Fernsehen and FilmExil (discontinued). It also publishes the FilmHefte series of publications and, together with CineGraph, the Film-Kurier-Index , the FILMtext book series and the FilmMaterialien brochures . In 2010 the book Fritz Langs Metropolis was published with over 600 illustrations.
Film archive
The archiving, reconstruction and restoration of films of historical importance are among the central tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek. With around 26,000 titles, the film archive comprises an extensive inventory of German and international silent and sound films in a wide variety of formats, genres and styles. Several films will be made available for viewing. Part of the film portfolio focuses on experimental and documentary films. In addition, the film archive contains films from those who signed the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962, as well as the entire film work of the DFFB, which includes the extremely political films of the first generation as well as the films of the so-called Berlin School .
Collections
In the course of their production history, films leave behind materials of the most varied types, such as three-dimensional sculptures and models, textiles, film technical equipment, sound documents, photographs including scene, portrait and factory photos, but also written records such as draft sketches, contracts, posters, film programs, approval cards, censorship documents, filmographic and biographical materials, promotional materials, tickets and reviews. The Deutsche Kinemathek has around a million such material relevant to film history in its collections. One focus of the collections are the documents on German film exile, which trace the work of German filmmakers in emigration and are considered the most extensive collection of this orientation internationally. Collections from the legacy of influential film legends such as FW Murnau , GW Pabst , Marlene Dietrich , Ken Adam or Bernd Eichinger also offer extensive insight into individual biographies, cultural, contemporary and production history. A special focus of the collection are materials on film architecture. Databases facilitate targeted material searches. Some collections, including the archive of the influential set designer Ken Adam and the archive of the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) are now accessible online. With the online presentation of the cultural heritage of film, the Deutsche Kinemathek shows new ways of making audiovisual cultural assets usable and makes the content presented there accessible to a broad public.
Library
Part of the Kinemathek is also one of the largest scientific special libraries on film and television in Germany. The collection encompasses film and television history including prehistory and early history, film and television theory, literature on individuals and films, as well as on the film and television industry and film and television technology. There are almost 48,000 books and around 3800 magazine titles available, 180 of which are currently subscribed to. Filmographic and bibliographic databases as well as 1500 DVDs can be used on site. There are also extensive special collections, including festival materials, film theater programs and rental catalogs.
Special exhibitions
- 2018/19: Between the Films - A Photo History of the Berlinale
- 2017/18: The Ufa . History of a brand
- 2017: Robby Müller - Master of Light
- 2014: light and shadow. On the film set of the Weimar Republic . Backing band.
- 2014: The Unseen Lakes. Film in a new light .
- 2013: Bernd Eichinger -… all cinema .
- 2013: Martin Scorsese .
- 2012: 40 years of Sesame Street . Visiting the Museum for Film and Television
- 2012: Heroes. An exhibition for children from 4 to 14 years
- 2011: On the set. Paris - Babelsberg - Hollywood , 1910 to 1930
- 2011: On the set. Berlin - Babelsberg , today
- 2011: Between film and art. Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg
- 2011: Experimental television of the 1960s and '70s
- 2011: Ingmar Bergman . Of lies and truth
- 2010: The Nossendorf project. An installation by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
- 2010: In the jungle. An exhibition for children from 4 to 14 years
- 2010: The Complete Metropolis
- 2009: Romy Schneider . Vienna - Berlin - Paris
- 2009: Casting a Shadow. Alfred Hitchcock and his workshop
- 2009: We were so free ... Snapshots from 1989/1990
- 2008: Water Worlds. An exhibition for children from 4 to 14 years
- 2008: Loriot . A tribute to the 85th birthday
- 2007: film.geschichte: "When I go to my cinema on Sundays"
- 2007: film.kunst: Ulrike Ottinger
- 2007: On hot tracks ... master detectives in the museum. An exhibition for children from 4 to 14 years
- 2007: movie costumes! The theater arts company
- 2006: cinema in your head. Psychology and film since Sigmund Freud
- 2006: Michael Jary . Presentation of the estate
- 2006: Goal! Football and television
- 2005: Hildegard Knef . An artist from Germany. Special exhibition for the 80th birthday
- 2005: Volker Noth . Posters 1977 to 2005
- 2005: Marika Rökk (1913-2004). Presentation of the estate
- 2005: Henry Koster . Presentation of the Henry Koster Collection in the foyer
- 2005: Moving Spaces. Production design + film
- 2004: The Commissioners
- 2004: From walking upright. 30 years of Basis-Filmverleih Berlin
- 2004: Watching the light at work. Helmut Herbst photographed friends and colleagues from 1964 to 1990
- 2004: Laura's star . Animation film exhibition
- 2004: the ideal woman. Ruth Leuwerik and the cinema of the fifties
- 2003: flapping wings - angels in the film
- 2003: The world of Hardy Krüger . A homage
- 2003: Where film careers begin. 40 years of the little television game on ZDF
- 2003: Götterdämmerung. Luchino Visconti's German trilogy
- 2003: Oscars in Animation
- 2003: Hirschfeld's Hollywood
- 2003: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . A melancholy of the film
- 2002: TV makes you happy
- 2002: Hildegard Knef . Insights into the estate
- 2002: Everyone for himself and God against everyone. The director Werner Herzog
- 2002: a good friend. Heinz Rühmann on his 100th birthday
- 2002: Berlin - Symphony of a Big City
- 2001: Michael Ballhaus . Director of Photography
- 2001: Forever Young. Marlene Dietrich on her 100th birthday
- 2001: Mathias Bothor, Joachim Gern. Portrait photography
- 2001: www.starometer.de. Website and exhibition lounge
- 2001: Pictures / Stories / Films. The producer Joachim von Vietinghoff
- 2001: Fritz Lang
- 2001: Andreas Neubauer: Photographs
See also
literature
- Accompanying volume for the 2013 exhibition: Light and Shadow . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0588-5 .
- Rolf Aurich: mosaic work. Gerhard Lamprecht and the world of film archives. edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-226-3 . (A representation of the film collection of the Deutsche Kinemathek and its creation from the Lamprechts collection)
- Wolfgang Jacobsen: Time and World. Gerhard Lamprecht and his films. edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-227-0 . (A presentation of Lamprecht's films and their transmission, including in the Deutsche Kinemathek)
- Eva Orbanz: With each other and opposite. Gerhard Lamprecht and his eyewitness conversations. edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-318-5 . (Selection of the transcribed versions of some eyewitness conversations on German film history that Gerhard Lamprecht conducted and that have been preserved in the Deutsche Kinemathek)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Aurich: Mosaic work. Gerhard Lamprecht and the world of film archives . edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-226-3 .
- ^ Rolf Aurich: Mosaic work. Gerhard Lamprecht and the world of film archives . edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-226-3 .
- ↑ Where the white blood of the canvas flows. In: FAZ. January 23, 2014, p. 29.