Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

DATA AND ADDRESSES CONCERNING THE MOST IMPORTANT ARCHIVES
Federal Archives/Film Archive, Berlin and Koblenz
The largest German archive with over 200 employees and two copy
works of its own in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen and Koblenz. It has a collection
of 148,000 titles (21,000 feature and 127,000 documentary films as well as
”Wochenschau“ programs). In the near future, the archive will not only
receive a new data bank facilitating exchange with archives in the USA and
Australia, but also new storage area for its highly inflammable nitro-films,
of which around 77,000 reels are still waiting to be copied. The Federal
Archive-Film Archive also has a large collection of posters (22,650
examples), photographs (over half a million) and publications (c. 30,000).
The archive distinguishes between commercial and non-commercial borrowers
in its lending practice; a quarter of the users come from abroad.
Director: Karl Griep
Fehrbelliner Platz 3 · D-10707 Berlin
phone +49-18 88-77 77-0 · fax +49-18 88-77 70-9 99
www.bundesarchiv.de · email: filmarchiv@barch.bund.de
Library of the German Film Institute/German Film Museum (photo © Deutsches
Filminstitut)
German Film Institute – DIF, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden
The focal points of the collection of 10,000 German and foreign feature,
documentary and short films are silent films from Germany, German
productions after the Second World War and outstanding international
works. The DIF, which is supported by both government and private enterprise,
and whose documentation section resides in the building of the
German Film Museum, has the largest text and photo archive (1,5 million
exponents) in the Federal Republic.
Director: Claudia Dillmann
Schaumainkai 41 · D-60596 Frankfurt
phone +49-69-9 61 22 00 · fax +49-69-62 00 60
www.filminstitut.de
email: info@deutsches-filminstitut.de
Film Archive: Nikola Klein
Kreuzberger Ring 56 · D-65205 Wiesbaden
phone +49-6 11-9 70 00 10 · fax +49-6 11-9 70 00 15
email: nikola.klein@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Film Museum Berlin – Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
The Deutsche Kinemathek (SDK), a foundation financed by the city-state
of Berlin and the Federation, has a collection of around 10,000 German
and foreign films which are stored in its various branches. The SDK owns
what is probably the most comprehensive collection of materials related
to film in the form of set designs, costume designs, estates, film programs,
etc. Special collection areas are documentation concerning film exile (Paul
Kohner, Erich Pommer, Fritz Lang), special effects and the estate of the
actress Marlene Dietrich. The remaining collections consist of around
1 million photos and 20,000 posters; the collection of screenplays, with
30,000 exponents, is the largest in Germany.
Director: Hans Helmut Prinzler
Archive: Werner Sudendorf
Distribution: Holger Theuerkauf
Potsdamer Str. 2 · D-10785 Berlin
phone +49-30-3 00 90 30 · fax +49-30-30 09 03 13
www.filmmuseum-berlin.de
email: info@filmmuseum-berlin.de
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Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation, Wiesbaden
As well as films from the basic collection – the former film property of the
Reich –, the foundation also owns copies of the post-war productions by
Bavaria and Universum Film. The film collections are supplemented by
over 250,000 photos, posters and advertising materials.
Director: Peter Franz
Technical Department: Gudrun Weiss
Kreuzberger Ring 56 · D-65205 Wiesbaden
phone +49-6 11-9 77 08-0 · fax +49-6 11-9 77 08-19
www.murnau-stiftung.de · email: info@murnau-stiftung.de
Film Museum in the Municipal Museum Munich
Besides a comprehensive collection on New German Cinema, the film
archive (approx. 4000 copies and negatives) also has collections of
classical German and Russian silent films and avant-garde films dating from
the twenties. The collection of Stalin films is one of the biggest in western
Europe. The museum, which has restricted itself to the collection of film
copies to date, also collects Munich productions in its archives and has, for
example, all the films by Vlado Kristl, Jean-Marie Straub, Roland Klick and
Maximilian Schell. In the year 1998, the film museum took over the estate
of Orson Welles. The film museum lends out its copies to a limited
extent, for retrospectives and non-commercial use – for example it is possible
to borrow the silent film classics ”Der Golem, wie er in die Welt
kam“ and ”Die freudlose Gasse“.
Director: Stefan Drößler
St.-Jakobs-Platz 1 · D-80331 München
phone +49-89-23 32 23 48 · fax +49-89-23 32 39 31
www.stadtmuseum-online.de/filmmu.htm
email: filmmuseum@compuserve.com
German Film Museum Frankfurt
Over 5,000 copies are stored in the film archive of the museum, the focus
being on animation film and the classical film avant-garde of the twenties
(Fischinger, Ruttmann, Richter). The film archive also keeps the most
comprehensive national collections concerning the brothers Diehl and the
silhouette filmmaker Lotte Reiniger. The institution presents its technical
collection in an accessible depot, the non-film archive preserves 800,000
photos, 25,000 posters and a comprehensive collection of graphics.
A speciality of this museum is its collection of music related material,
including sound tracks, music scores and sheet music.
Director: Walter Schobert
Archive & Exhibits: Hans-Peter Reichmann
Schaumainkai 41 · D-60596 Frankfurt
phone +49-69-21 23 88 30 · fax +49-69-21 23 78 81
www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de
email: info@deutsches-filmmuseum.de
Film Archive: Michael Schurig
Eschborner Landstr. 42-50 · D-60489 Frankfurt
phone +49-69-78 37 01
email: filmarchiv@deutsches-filmmuseum.de
Romy Schneider Exhibit (photo © German Film Museum Frankfurt)