German Film Museum

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German Film Museum 2016
Front at the Schaumainkai with the German Architecture Museum on the right (2013)

The German Film Museum on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt am Main is one of seven film museums in Germany. It is housed in a listed historic villa.

history

Entrance area of ​​the film museum (2016)
Prize showcase in the museum: Golden Globe, Bambi, Filmband, Lola

The German Film Museum opened in 1984. It continued the tradition of the municipal cinema of the city of Frankfurt, which was housed in the now demolished Historical Museum on Römerberg. The renovation of the historic villa was carried out according to plans by the architect Helge Bofinger , the interior design by the Berlin set designer Jan Schlubach .

In March 2006, the German Film Museum merged with the German Film Institute . Since the merger, Claudia Dillmann has also headed the museum as director. She left both institutions in mid-September 2017 and went into early retirement. She was succeeded by Ellen Harrington on January 1, 2018.

From 2009 to 2011, the museum was completely rebuilt according to plans by the architectural office blocher partners . The reopening with a newly designed permanent exhibition took place on August 12, 2011.

Program

The German Film Museum is dedicated to the medium of film, the past and present, aesthetics and effects of which it presents in a variety of ways in exhibitions and in the in-house cinema. The museum offers its visitors an extraordinary place for an intensive examination of the moving image. The origins of film, its development and future are the subject of the permanent exhibition, which begins before the "invention" of the cinema in 1895 and traces its development. It also allows visitors to understand how cinematic seeing and narrating work - the means by which the film images achieve the effect intended by the director. Special exhibitions complete the offer: They are dedicated to the work of outstanding filmmakers and examine thematic aspects of the film.

Part of the exhibition is also a small cinema in which short documentaries are shown. The German Film Museum also houses the municipal cinema, which was founded in 1971 as one of the first of its kind . This city-sponsored film theater shows films that are historically significant as well as experimental films as well as film series about directors , actors and countries. In addition, lectures and discussions are offered. The performance of silent films will be broadcast live from the museum's own cinema organ of the brand "Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ" accompanied from 1928. The organ has been dismantled and stored since 2013 and is therefore no longer playable. Since the cinema, which was founded in 1971, has hosted countless filmmakers, among them such outstanding personalities as Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Eric Rohmer, Wim Wenders, Isabelle Huppert, Anthony Quinn and Geraldine Chaplin.

Film copies, documents, photographs and sketches are systematically recorded and archived in an archive. The library of the German Film Museum is open to the public such as the archive and includes about 80,000 volumes on film.

Web links

Commons : Deutsches Filmmuseum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. With historical images into the digital future ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Eva-Maria Magel in FAZ.NET from December 29, 2007, accessed on August 26, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.faz.net
  2. Frankfurt says goodbye to Filmmuseum director Claudia Dillmann . In: Top Magazin Frankfurt . September 8, 2017 ( top-magazin-frankfurt.de [accessed September 14, 2017]).
  3. Ellen M. Harrington becomes the new director of the German Film Museum . In: Top Magazin Frankfurt . September 14, 2017 ( top-magazin-frankfurt.de [accessed September 14, 2017]).
  4. Modernization of the German Film Museum. In: https://blocherpartners.com . Retrieved June 9, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 40 ″  E