Events & Film Program

Diaries and notebooks are important and rare testimonies: They provide us with information about the preferences and habits of cinemagoers in the Weimar Republic. Katrin Erthel and Tabea Nixdorff will present their find in a performative reading: the recorded cinema visits of the Leipzig stenotypist Charlotte Gerth.

Performative reading with film excerpts
Host: Annika Haupts
Event room, 4th floor / free admission

In 2019, again, a class of the Catholic School Liebfrauen took part in the European exchange film education programme "Jugend filmt". This year, they created the short film "Not you again", which the young filmmakers will present alongside a selection of films by other participants.

Admission free

Free of charge with admission ticket

In 1923, the later founder of the Kinemathek, Gerhard Lamprecht, and the screenwriter Luise Heilborn-Körbitz transferred the 1,000-page novel Buddenbrooks into a 90-minute silent film. Thomas Mann was ambivalent, but the critics were enthusiastic. We willl screen the 35mm version restored in 1999.

With musical accompaniment.
Introduction: Kristina Jaspers

D 1931, Director: Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang's first sound film M marks the beginning and the end of our film series "Modern Cinema". In front of the backdrop of Potsdamer Platz, which is illuminated at night, we are showing the masterpiece at the Sommerkino Kulturforum in cooperation with the Yorck Cinema Group.

In October, the film will be shown in a series of matinees at delphi LUX. An introduction will be given by Peter Mänz.

Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz 6, 10785 Berlin
Admission 9 Euro | With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 7 Euro

delphi LUX, Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Admission 11 Euro | With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

Das Problem der Altersarmut trifft immer mehr Schauspieler*innen. Eine Ursache der präkeren Lebenslage im Alter liegt in der Inkompatibilität des Berufs mit dem Renten- und Sozialsystem. Jedoch konnten ver.di, der Bundesverband Schauspiel (BFFS) und die Produzentenallianz nach umfangreichen Verhandlungen 2018 wesentliche Erfolge in den tariflichen Vereinbarungen durchsetzen – ein Fortschritt, dem viele weitere Schritte folgen müssen. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Grimme trifft die Branche“ laden wir zusammen mit der Götz George Stiftung und dem Grimme-Institut zum Gespräch mit Politiker*innen, Sendeverantwortlichen, Produzent*innnen, Caster*innen, Verbänden und Schauspieler*innen ein.

Mit Marika George, Dr. Frauke Gerlach, Nina Haun und weiteren Gästen

Veranstaltungsraum, 4.OG

Eintritt frei

During the Long Night of Museums, we take you behind the scenes of the exhibition and explore themes like “Weimar, feminine”, “Bauhaus”, “Avant-garde” or “Film theory”. The short tours take place every full and half hour from 18:30 to 0:00.
In addition, we have set up a photo booth producing the popular black-and-white photo strips. The so-called photomatons came into fashion in the 1920s. Portraits of film stars were often advertised on the cabins, so people behind the curtain posed in the style of their film heroes.

Admission free with the ticket for the Long Night of Museums

A tour through more than 100 years of film history.

Free of charge with admission ticket.

In the six-parter Die Neue Zeit, director Lars Kraume tells the story of the early years at the Bauhaus in Weimar – of artistic innovations as well as of social resistance. The series also focuses on the role of women in the male-dominated art school.

With thanks to Zero One Fim, ZDF and arte.

This event is part of the Bauhaus Week Berlin 2019.

Interview with producer Thomas Kufus (Zero One Film), director Lars Kraume, co-author Judith Angerbauer, costume designer Esther Walz and leading actress Anna Maria Mühe.
Moderation: Dr. Rainer Rother.
Subsequent preview of the first two episodes
Event room, 4th floor / Admission free

This event will be held in German. Please feel free to consult our German-language event calendar for further information.

D 1932, Director: Paul Martin

The film operetta about the two window cleaners Willy I and Willy II, who compete for the favor of an artist, accompanies the dream of happiness in a time marked by the world economic crisis with dashing hits.

Introduction: Nils Warnecke

Delphi LUX — Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin
Admission 11 Euro — With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

A tour through more than 100 years of film history.

Free of charge with admission ticket.

FRG 1985, director: Wolfgang Tumler

Divided Berlin

Every month, the series "From the TV Archive" presents German television feature films that once found millions of viewers, but have now largely fallen into oblivion. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the third quarterly programme of the year is dedicated to the theme of "Divided Berlin".

Zeughauskino im Deutschen Historischen Museum
Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
Admission free

The award-winning set designer Uli Hanisch (Das Experiment, 2001, Das Parfum, 2006, Cloud Atlas, 2012) revives 1920s Berlin in the television series Babylon Berlin (D since 2017, director: Tom Tykwer et al.). On this tour, he explains historical models, photographs and documents from shooting the series.

Accompanied by curator Kristina Jaspers

FRG 1985, director: Wolfgang Tumler

Divided Berlin

Every month, the series "From the TV Archive" presents German television feature films that once found millions of viewers, but have now largely fallen into oblivion. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the third quarterly programme of the year is dedicated to the theme of "Divided Berlin".

Zeughauskino im Deutschen Historischen Museum
Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
Admission free

D 1929, director: Joe May

A late silent movie about the mobility of urban space: For the entrance sequence, an elaborate street backdrop was set up on 6000 square meters of studio space in the Babelsberg Ufa studios.

Introduction: Annika Haupts

Delphi LUX, Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Admission 11 Euro — With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

A tour through more than 100 years of film history.

Free of charge with admission ticket.

After the First World War, emancipated women still looked like they did in the Empire: squeezed into laced dresses, their hair piled up and crowned by big hats. But a little later the "new" woman also became visible and film stars like Elisabeth Bergner manifested their style – with a short hair and a straight dress.

In cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie, we invite you to a panel discussion as part of the exhibition "Modern Cinema".
Guests: Annette Dorgerloh (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Annelie Lütgens (Berlinische Galerie) and Nils Warnecke (Deutsche Kinemathek)
Event room, 4th floor / Admission free

D 1919, Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Lubitsch's oeuvre often combines turbulent comedy with a precise observation of social and interpersonal sensitivities. This Comedy of errors about a marriage swindle is a cheerful reminiscence of his apprenticeship in a Berlin fabric store.

Introduction: Anna Heizmann

Delphi LUX, Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Admission 11 Euro — With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

A tour through more than 100 years of film history.

Free of charge with admission ticket.

In the 1920s, many women took advantage of the opportunities offered by the new film industry and wanted to establish themselves as screenwriters, directors or producers. In the credits, they therefore usually refrained from mentioning their first name. The film scholar and freelance curator Gerlinde Waz provides exciting insights into this largely unknown chapter of Weimar cinema.

Dietrich Neumann, architecture and film historian (Filmarchitektur – Von Metropolis bis Blade Runner, 1996; Leuchtende Bauten: Architektur der Nacht, 2006), talks to set designer Uli Hanisch (The International, 2009, Babylon Berlin, since 2017) about fascinating urban images in 1920s films and their re-staging.

Conversation with Dietrich Neumann (Professor of Art History and Architecture) and Uli Hanisch (set designer of Babylon Berlin, among others).
Introduction: Sergei Tchoban (architect)
In cooperation with the Tchoban Foundation - Museum of Architectural Drawing
Event room, 4th floor / free admission

D 1922, Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Sophisticated film tricks and a masterly production, based freely on Bram Stoker's Dracula, created a true "symphony of horror", which founded a genre of itself and is often quoted to this day.

Introduction: Kristina Jaspers

Delphi LUX, Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Admission 11 Euro — With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

Public guided tour with interpreters for German spoken and sign language.

Guided tour free of charge with admission ticket

The star violinist Gabriele, played by Henny Porten, lives completely for her profession. She falls in love with a young count and marries him, but his conservative family does not accept the modern independent woman. The decors subtly reflect the gap between the two worlds: here the artist's cubist villa, there the aristocratic castle.

This screening of Die große Pause (D 1927, director: Carl Froelich) is part of bauhaus100
Piano: Richard Siedhoff, Introduction: Nils Warnecke

D 1931, Director: Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang's first sound film M marks the beginning and the end of our film series "Modern Cinema". In front of the backdrop of Potsdamer Platz, which is illuminated at night, we are showing the masterpiece at the Sommerkino Kulturforum in cooperation with the Yorck Cinema Group.

In October, the film will be shown in a series of matinees at delphi LUX. An introduction will be given by Peter Mänz.

Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz 6, 10785 Berlin
Admission 9 Euro | With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 7 Euro

delphi LUX, Yva-Bogen, Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Admission 11 Euro | With exhibition ticket "Modern Cinema" 8 Euro

The exceptional artist Ella Bergmann-Michel developed a personal painting style between geometric abstraction and dance-like prismatic colors. Inspired by her friends Joris Ivens and Dziga Vertov, she turned to documentary film at the beginning of the 1930s and made socially critical short films. Her daughter-in-law Sünke Michel will guide you through her cinematic work and present the biographical background.

Short film program and conversation with artist Sünke Michel
Wo wohnen alte Leute? (D 1931), Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose (D 1932), Fischfang in der Rhön (an der Sinn) (D 1932), Letzte Wahl (Wahlkampf) (D 1932/33)
Host: Kristina Jaspers
Event room, 4th floor / Admission free

This event will be held in German.
Free of charge with admission ticket.

The Bauhaus used film early on to document and propagate its New Building. In the 1920s, Bauhaus furniture found its way into feature film as props, where it served less as furniture for the broad masses than as status symbol for artists and intellectuals. Since then, the Bauhaus style in film has mostly served as a cipher for cool power structures. We'll examine this multi-layered liaison on the basis of film examples.

Conversation with Nina Wiedemeyer (curator, Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design) and Kristina Jaspers (curator, Deutsche Kinemathek)
In cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie and the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin
This event is part of bauhaus100
Event room, 4th floor / free admission