German Film Institute
German Film Institute e. V. ( DIF ) is the name of a film science institution in the legal form of a registered association with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2019 the name has been DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum.
history
The institute was founded on April 13, 1949 under the name Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF). In 1952 the German Film Archive was founded as an independent department of the DIF. Due to a reorganization, the film archive was separated from the institute in 1956. On January 1, 1959, Hanns Wilhelm Lavies (who had founded his archive for film studies in Marburg in 1947) left the institute and was succeeded by Max Lippmann .
Theo Fürstenau headed the institute between 1966 and 1981 . In 1981 Gerd Albrecht was appointed director of the DIF. On February 1, 1997, Claudia Dillmann became the head of the institution, which from October 30, 1999 on was officially called "Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF". Claudia Dillmann took early retirement in mid-September 2017. In September 2017, the Board of Directors of DIF named Ellen Harrington , who took office on January 1, 2018, as her successor.
The institute has one of the largest film archives in Germany and one of the most extensive collections of material on all aspects of film art and cinema . In March 2006, the German Film Institute merged with the German Film Museum .
The institute maintains the equipment archive in the Frankfurt-Fechenheim district . More than 2,800 individual items such as cameras, cutting tables and accessories are stored there in an area of around 600 square meters.
Projects of the institute are:
- The edition of the censorship decisions of the Berlin Film Inspectorate from 1920 to 1938
- COLLATE - A collaborative system for annotating and indexing archive materials
- European Film Gateway (EFG) - portal to digital collections of European film archives
- filmarchives-online.eu - Union catalog of European film archives
- filmportal.de - An Internet portal for German films
- Cross- institutional integration of authority data (IN2N)
The DIF is a member of the Deutscher Kinemathekenverbund and the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE).
Awards
- 2019: Hessian Film and Cinema Prize - Honorary Prize of the Hessian Prime Minister
Web links
- deutsches-filminstitut.de
- The edition of the censorship decisions of the Berlin Film Inspectorate from 1920 to 1938
- Collate: The virtual research center on European film censorship - Collate: Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
- COLLATE - Portal for film censorship documents from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia (1920s and 1930s)
- filmarchives-online.eu - Union catalog of European film archives
- europeanfilmgateway.eu - portal to digital collections of European film archives with film collections from the First World War
- LUCAS - International Children's Film Festival
- goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
- School Cinema Weeks Hessen
- ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes
- Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt / Main - merged with the Deutsches Filminstitut since January 2006
- German Film Institute in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ DFF - German Film Institute & Film Museum. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
- ↑ From Los Angeles to the Main. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 14, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ With historical images into the digital future ( Memento from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Eva-Maria Magel in FAZ.NET from December 29, 2007, accessed on August 26, 2010.
- ↑ When the projectionist still had a lot to do , in: FAZ , December 28, 2012, page 48.
- ^ Hessian Film Prize in the Shadow of the Mendig Cause. In: hessenschau .de. September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .