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Deutsche Kinemathek -
Museum für Film und Fernsehen |
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Potsdamer Straße 2
D-10785 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: info@deutsche-kinemathek.de
www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Since it was established in 1963, the German Cinematheque has collected everything relating to the history of films, cinema theatres and to some extent that of television as well: film copies and indispensable material for research on cinematic history, e.g. film programmes, posters, architectural drawings and costume sketches, photos, scripts, estates/bequests, and other documents.
Since 1977 the German Film Museum in Berlin has been in charge of planning and organizing the retrospectives of the Berlin International Film Festivals. The Museum also organizes film history tributes and symposia. It is involved in the field of cinematic literature and regularly issues film-history publications, many of which have become standard works in the historiography of films.
Since the autumn of 2001, the Film Museum has presented part of the collections in a permanent exhibition, featuring a thematically and chronologically arranged tour of German film history. Besides this history, the Berlin-Hollywood cinematic connection is another focal point. The presentation is augmented by special exhibitions.
Collections
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Film library |
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The film library became part of the German Film Museum in January 1999; for over thirty years it had been the library of the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. It collects printed media covering the fields of films and television. The library's open-shelf section - multimedia resources numbering between 60,000 and 70,000 items - comprises publications on film history, including its "pre-history" and early history; the history of photography; monographs on persons, themes and institutions; publications on film theory, film criticism, film aesthetics, on individual films and cinematic genres, film technology and the film industry; scripts published in book form and on sale in bookstores; and a large collection of cinematic reference works. Special collecting focal points are films-in-exile and exile films, publications on scriptwriting and biographies. Besides monographs and heavily academic literature, the library possesses an important collection of German and international film periodicals - at present some 220 serial titles and a total of some 7,000 periodical titles. The particularly valuable collection of historical film periodicals is available in part on microfilm. In addition there is material on national and international film festivals, rental and exhibition catalogues and cinema programmes. An extensive press archive - twenty German and foreign dailies are regularly monitored - makes possible research on persons, film titles, institutions and festivals, etc.
The library is open to the public (minimum age is 16); a user-fee is charged. Items in the collections may be borrowed.
Open Tue, Wed, Fri from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thu 12 to 8 p.m.
Filmmuseum Berlin
Film library / Filmbibliothek (FiBi)
Potsdamer Straße 2
10785 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-71
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-77
E-Mail: bibliothek@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Scripts |
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The script collection contains some 20,000 scripts, dialogue lists, exposés and treatments. About half of the items come from various estates and bequests. The focal point of the collection is scripts of German films and films shown in Germany.
Scripts cannot be borrowed and taken home as in a library. Owing to copyright reasons, scripts may not be copied in toto.
Contact:
Regina Hoffmann
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-41
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: rhoffmann@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Film archive and rental service |
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Films
Some 12,500 film titles are archived in the film archive: national and international productions from 1895 to the present. There are movies, documentaries and experimental films, animated and promotional films; they are on nitrofilm, safety film, Ozaphan and polyester film; they are black and white, coloured, tinted, in Agfacolor or Kodacolor; they are 64 mm, 35 mm, 16 mm, 28 mm, 8 mm and 9.5 mm.
Some 2,100 titles of this collection are provided with backup copies and can be viewed in-house or can be borrowed at the rental office for cinematographic and non-commercial showings.
Collection categories are:
- international productions in the early era (1895-1918)
- Films dating from the Weimar Republic
- International productions of the fifties, sixties, seventies, dubbed in German
- individual directors, producers, for example Klaus Wildenhahn, Peter Nestler, Eberhard Fechner, Egon Monk, Gerhard Lamprecht, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Klaus Wyborny, Franz Winzentsen, Ulrike Ottinger, Rebecca Horn, Rosa von Praunheim, Lothar Lambert, Jochen von Vietinghoff, Road Movies / Wim Wenders, Berlin producers, Paul Falkenberg, Charlotte Kerr
Contact:
Prof. Martin Koerber
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-30
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: filmarchiv@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Rentals
Some 12,500 film titles are archived in the German Film Museum's film archive: national and international productions from 1895 to the present. Some 2,100 titles of this collection are provided with backup copies and can be viewed in-house or borrowed at the rental office for cinematographic and non-commercial showings.
Contact:
Holger Theuerkauf
Tel: +49 (0)30 300903-31
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: htheuerkauf@deutsche-kinemathek.de
Anke Hahn
Tel: +49 (0)30 300903-32
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: ahahn@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Photos |
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The photo archive preserves some two million photos on the subject of films and personalities. The collection focuses on films that were produced in German and films that ran in German cinemas or were shown on German television.
Contact:
Wolfgang Theis
Tel: +49 (0)30 300903-43
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: wtheis@deutsche-kinemathek.de
Peter Latta
Tel: +49 (0)30 300903-44
E-Mail: platta@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Estates/bequests and deposits |
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The archives of the German Film Museum have at present over 380 complete or partial estates/bequests and items on deposit from persons or corporations in the film branch. Each collection bears the name of the donor. The greater part of the collections has been "developed" in terms of sorting and classifying the material by film title, name (persons or corporations) and partly by subject.
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Contact:
Gerrit Thies
Tel: +49 (0)30 300903-45
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: gthies@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Posters, costumes and set designs |
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The poster archive, containing about 20,000 posters, documents film display-advertising - from the beginnings in the era of travelling cinema up to current productions. The prints are mainly of German provenance and include German posters showing foreign film titles.
The costume and set design archive has some 15,000 sheets, making it the largest existing collection on the history of German film design. The estates of set and costume designers contain sketches for "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Metropolis" and "M" - as well as for Defa film classics like "Der Untertan" ("The Patrioteer") and such international productions as "Cabaret".
Contact:
Anett Sawall
Tel: +49 (0)30 355910-17
Fax: +49 (0)30 355910-13
E-Mail: asawall@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Written material |
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A wide variety of collateral printed matter on films ranging from the early era to the present are gathered and archived in the written material collection. Included are programmes, press books (information for journalists), campaign books, invitations to premieres, censorship cards, admission tickets, musical scores, etc. You will also find data on many persons and institutions (associations, corporations, cinemas, etc.).
Contact:
Regina Hoffmann
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-41
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: rhoffmann@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Special effects |
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The Rolf Giesen Collection is the only existing film-museum-linked collection covering the history of visual effects, animation, and computer-generated moving pictures in the cinema, on television and other media. This collection includes draft sketches, photos, posters, original props and art work: models, masks, matte paintings, animatronics and cartoon cels.
The Artificial Worlds section of the German Film Museum exhibition is put together from this collection: It covers animation and illusion in the history of motion pictures. On exhibit are stop motion models by Ray Harryhausen and miniatures from space movies: bizarre creatures and homuncules, artificial creatures, satyrs and cyclops, Darth Vader and Alien.
The Rolf Giesen Collection of the German Film Museum in Berlin has contributed considerably in the past to the success of exhibitions by other museums and organizers: in the Babelsberg Film Park, the BavariaFilmPark, the Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City and in the Hygiene Museum in Dresden. A panoramic survey of the Rolf Giesen Collection is provided by the monograph "Künstliche Welten: Special Effects" (Europa Verlag, Hamburg, 2000).
Contact:
Rolf Giesen
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-28
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: rgiesen@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Film technology |
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The film technology collection of the German Film Museum is at present being developed. It includes a large number of motion-picture cameras, lighting apparatus, film processing and editing equipment and audiovisual recording and reproduction equipment. The purpose of the collection is to document the development of film technology - from the precursors of moving pictures to modern-day cinema.
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Museum equipment and resources as loans to museums and theatres, also available for historical documentary studies and exhibitions.
Contact:
Werner Sudendorf
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-40
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: wsudendorf@deutsche-kinemathek.de
Wilfried Busch
Tel.: +49 (0)30 355910-12
Fax: +49 (0)30 355910-13
E-Mail: wbusch@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Sound-carriers |
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The sound-carrier collection includes wax cylinder recordings, gramophone records, other records, tapes, audio cassettes and CDs containing sound documents on film history.
Contact:
Regina Hoffmann
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-41
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: rhoffmann@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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Marlene Dietrich Collection, Berlin |
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In autumn 1993 Berlin acquired the estate of Marlene Dietrich, which was collected at Sotheby's in New York from five different storehouses in Europe and the USA.
The German Cinematheque, now the German Film Museum in Berlin, took over this collection - unique worldwide, both in scope and in content.
The estate contains over 3,000 textile items dating from the twenties to the nineties, including:
- 50 film costumes by Theaterkunst, Travis Banton, Irene, Ernest Dreyden, Vera West, Edith Head, Eddie Schmidt, Jean Louis, Dior and others
- 40 show costumes by Jean Louis and Knize
- 2500 private wardrobe items by Arden, Balenciaga, Balmain, Chanel, Courrèges, Dior, Givenchy, Guerlain, Irene, Knize, Schiaparelli, Ungaro and others
- some 16,500 photos from 1904 to 1992, including scene and production stills, photos of show appearances and other public appearances, private and family photos, and 2,000 original prints by well-known photographers such as Martin Badekow, Cecil Beaton, Mario Bucovich, Irving Chidnoff, Don English, Horst P. Horst, George Hurrell, Armstrong Jones, Ray Jones, Eugene Robert Richee, Edward Steichen and William Walling
- Written documents totalling some 300,000 sheets, personal documents, business papers, production manuscripts, scripts, screenplays, documents on films and show appearances, scores, books, correspondence with (inter alia) Harold Arlen, Burt Bacharach, Charles Boyer, Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevelier, Jean Cocteau, Noel Coward, Jean Gabin, Douglas Fairbanks jr., Willi Forst, Alfred Kerr, Hildegard Knef, Karl Lagerfeld, Lilli Palmer, Alfred Polgar, Nancy and Ronald, Reagan, Erich Maria Remarque, Maximilian Schell, Johnnes Mario Simmel, Josef von Sternberg, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Carl Zuckmayer
- some 2,500 sound documents dating from the thirties to the eighties
- 350 posters, drawings and paintings
- 130 articles of luggage (overseas trunks, suitcases, hat-boxes, cosmetic cases)
A few highlights of the Marlene Dietrich estate are on view in the exhibition of the German Film Museum.
Newsletter
The Marlene Dietrich Collection Newsletter appears about twice a month with information on events, programmes, publications and news on the subject of Marlene Dietrich. The Newsletter is available worldwide via e-mail.
Contact:
Silke Ronneburg
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-42
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: mdcb@deutsche-kinemathek.de
Werner Sudendorf
Tel.: +49 (0)30 300903-40
Fax: +49 (0)30 300903-13
E-Mail: wsudendorf@deutsche-kinemathek.de
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