Reichsfilmstelle
Reichsfilmstelle is the name of various film offices during the Weimar Republic and the National Socialism of the German Empire.
A distinction must be made between:
- the Reichsfilmstelle in the Weimar Republic (as successor to the Image and Film Office (Bufa) ; 1918–1932)
- the Reichsfilmstelle of the NSDAP (from 1930)
The Reichsfilmstelle in the Weimar Republic
After the end of the First World War , the Image and Film Office (Bufa) was transferred to the Reich Chancellery as the "Reichsfilmstelle" and in 1919 moved to the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Its director there was Ernst Seeger , who was to head the supreme film censorship authority from 1924 and the department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933 .
The Reichsfilmstelle of the NSDAP
The NSDAP founded a party's own realm film place that produced in the following years, some campaigners movies and ensured their distribution in Berlin on November 1 1930th From December 1932, the Reichsfilmstelle also published its own magazine - “Der deutsche Film”.