Reichsfilmkammer

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The Reich Film Chamber ( RFK ) was a public corporation that during the Nazi era , the German regulated film industry. Every person who wanted to participate in film productions in the German Reich had to be a member of the Reichsfilmkammer. A non-membership amounted to a professional ban. The RFK was part of the coordination of society in the Third Reich and had its seat in Berlin . She was housed there in Berlin W 15 at Meinekestrasse 21.

history

The historical forerunner of the Reichsfilmkammer was the central organization of the film industry (SPIO).

The Reichsfilmkammer was set up on the basis of the “Act on the Establishment of a Provisional Film Chamber” of July 14, 1933. With the “Reich Chamber of Culture Act” of September 22, 1933, it was incorporated as a subdivision into the newly established Reich Chamber of Culture .

The establishment of the Reichsfilmkammer was preceded by an ordinance of the Propaganda Ministry that prohibited Jews and foreigners from working in the German film industry.

In addition to the Film-Kurier intended for the public and printed in larger numbers, the journal Der deutsche Film was published by Max Hesses Verlag as the official organ of the Reichsfilmkammer for filmmakers . Journal for film art and the film industry as well as the yearbook of the Reichsfilmkammer .

It was dissolved with the Reich Chamber of Culture by the Control Council Act No. 2 of October 12, 1945; Article I of the Control Council Act No. 60 of December 19, 1947 also repealed the “Act on the Establishment of a Provisional Film Chamber”.

tasks

In the Nazi film policy , the Reich Film Chamber held a key position. Your tasks were u. a .:

  • Compulsory registration of all those working in the film industry (production, distribution, cinema); see Reichsfachschaft Film
  • Regulation of the cinematography system (e.g. admission prices, programming, advertising, etc.)
  • Regulation of the drafting of contracts z. B. between filmmakers and producers as well as between theater owners and distributors
  • Supervision of the Filmkreditbank GmbH
  • Regulation of foreign film trade

organization

Departments

The Reichsfilmkammer comprised 10 departments:

I. General administration

Papers: 1. Law - 2. Budget and finances - 3. Personal details

II. Politics and culture

1. Domestic press news center
2. Foreign press news center
3. Reichsfilmarchiv

III. Artistic support for filmmaking

1. Dramaturgy - 2. Casting questions

IV. Film Industry

Special Unit: Foreign Exchange Matters
Special lecture: copyright, labor, tax law

V. Film Student Council

VI. Film Production Section

First feature film production - the second film foreign trade - the third film studios

VII. Section for Domestic Film Distribution

VIII. Movie theater

IX. Film and Cinema Technology Section

X. Section for culture, advertising and film locations

management

The presidents of the Reich Film Chamber, who were directly subordinate to the President of the Reich Chamber of Culture , Joseph Goebbels , were successively:

There was also a vice president and a managing director. In 1940 these were Karl Melzer and Heinz Tackmann. Furthermore, the Reichsfilmkammer was subdivided into the state managements and the specialist organizations. In 1940, the regional director of film of the regional culture warden Gau was shown in 31 cities. The professional organizations were located in the branch offices of the Reichsfilmkammer in Vienna, Munich, Berlin for the East Germany-Berlin district, Breslau for the East Germany-Breslau district, Königsberg for the East Germany-Königsberg district, Düsseldorf for the Düsseldorf district, Frankfurt am Main for the district Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig for the Leipzig district and Hamburg for the Hamburg district.

At other times, the presidential councils included Theodor Loos , Karl Hartl , Carl Auen and Karl Ritter .

literature

  • Heinrich Glöß: Pictures from the darkroom. Films from Brandenburg under the banner of the Reichsfilmkammer. In: Films, locations and film studios. UFA, Metropolis, Woltersdorf, Reichsfilmkammer, DEFA, Babelsberg. Marika Großer Verlag, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-910134-12-6 , pp. 22-27 ( Die Mark Brandenburg. Issue 74).
  • German Stage Yearbook - Theater History Year and Address Book, 51st year 1940, pp. 143f.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGbl. 1934 I p. 747.
  2. ↑ OJ. AK p. 296.
  3. ↑ German Stage Yearbook - Theater History Year and Address Book, 51st year 1940, pp. 143f.