Ufa teaching show

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Ufa-Lehrschau was the name of the first film institute in Germany set up by Universum Film AG (Ufa) .

history

The need to set up an institute for film or film studies has been discussed among journalists in Germany since the early 1930s. In 1932/33 the general director of Ufa, Ludwig Klitzsch , commissioned his distribution manager Oskar Kalbus and the Greifswald journalist Hans Traub to carry out a study that was later entitled “Paths to a German Institute for Film Studies”.

One year after the founding of the Berlin Reich Film Archive , the plan became a reality. The Ufa film site in Potsdam-Babelsberg was chosen as the location of the first German film institute . At that time, the studio city of Babelsberg was the center of the German film industry. Young film artists should be given the opportunity to receive theoretical training in the new institute and practical training in the studios next door . The planners devoted to the National Socialist regime had foreseen the possibility of ideological control over the next generation and the medium from the outset.

The institute, which was named "Ufa-Lehrschau" and which Hans Traub took over the founding and management of , was opened on January 31, 1936 and from then on served as a "prestigious object and educational facility" for Nazi films. It initially only comprised a permanent exhibition and a production archive. The exhibition showed exhibits on the topics of film history, film industry, film production and film technology. Everything that has to do with film was collected in the archive, e.g. B. Scripts, patents, decoration designs, music and advertising. In addition, a film library was opened in 1937 , in which Hanns Wilhelm Lavies, under Traub's supervision, compiled the first comprehensive bibliography “Das deutsche Filmschrifttum”. In 1938/39, various collections were added to the teaching show, and an evaluation archive was added a year later, in which film material was collected that could possibly be reused for other films. In addition, the Ufa teaching show also published extensive film literature.

The collections of the Ufa-Lehrschau were finally lost during the Second World War or were scattered to the wind. However, part of the holdings was probably absorbed by Hanns Wilhelm Lavies as a collector in the archive of the German Film Archive (DIF) .

See also

literature

  • The Ufa teaching show. The film's path from planning to showing. Ufa, Berlin 1941, DNB 36291947X .
  • Manfred Lichtenstein: CV of the film. The Ufa teaching show. In: Hans-Michael Bock, M. Töteberg (Ed.): The Ufa book. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt 1992, DNB 930775236 .

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