Munich Film Museum
 The Munich Film Museum |
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| place | Munich |
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| opening | 1963 |
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The Filmmuseum München (Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum ) is one of seven film museums in Germany.
The main activity is the showing of cinema films as well as collecting, archiving and restoring copies. All analog and digital formats (except 70 mm ) can be projected.
Its collection focuses on German silent films , the works of German film emigrants from the time of National Socialism , New German Film and Munich Film (e.g. Karl Valentin , Herbert Achternbusch and documentaries). As a cinematheque , the museum makes its collection accessible to the public as well as to research. The in-house cinema with 165 seats - one of the first municipal cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany - is one of the few addresses in Germany where complete film historical retrospectives and regular silent films are shown with live music. The museum does not have a permanent exhibition.
history
The museum was founded in late 1963 as a department of the Munich City Museum. Long-term efforts in the 1980s and 1990s to create a second cinema and to upgrade the cinema by spinning off the city museum and renaming it to the Bavarian Film Museum did not lead to success.
The Munich Film Museum has been doing pioneering work in film restoration since the 1970s . The then director Enno Patalas made a special contribution to the restoration of German silent films by directors such as Fritz Lang , Ernst Lubitsch , Georg Wilhelm Pabst and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and thus found a worldwide response. Previously, silent films were mostly only presented in very bad, often mutilated copies with inadequate (too fast) screening speed. Patalas engaged the pianist Aljoscha Zimmermann as the house pianist. Zimmermann researched original scores or wrote his own accompanying music.
The Filmmuseum houses the work of filmmakers who, as border crossers, cannot be assigned to any national film archive, such as Orson Welles , Thomas Harlan , Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet , Nicolas Humbert , Werner Schroeter and Wim Wenders . It has been in the Orson Welles estate since 1995, particularly the material on unfinished films it received from his last partner, Oja Kodar . Since 2006 it has published its reconstructions and restorations on DVD in the Edition Filmmuseum .
Head: Rudolph S. Joseph (1963–1973), Enno Patalas (1973–1994), Jan-Christopher Horak (1994–1998) and Stefan Drößler (since 1999).
The Filmmuseum has been co-organizing the annual film screenings at the Munich Film Festival and the Munich International Film Schools Festival since 2012 .
The Filmmuseum is funded by the Münchner Filmzentrum (MFZ), Friends of the Münchner Filmmuseum e. V.
The Filmmuseum is a co-organizer of the International Silent Film Festival in Bonn and then shows a selection of the program in Munich.
literature
- Chris Dercon : Resurrection and Rebirth. The Munich Film Museum is 50 years old and yet it is very much alive - as this well-congratulator, fan and long-time neighbor at the Haus der Kunst can testify. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 28, 2013, p. 14.
- Filmmuseum München (Ed.): 50 Years of the Munich Film Museum . Munich 2013 (without ISBN) [not evaluated]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filmportal.de: Filmmuseum Munich
- ↑ Rudolf Joseph (1904–1998), brother of Albrecht Joseph , see Gunther Nickel (ed.): Carl Zuckmayer. Albrecht Joseph. Correspondence: 1922-1972 . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2007, p. 463
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 6.4 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 23" E