Exhibitions | Deutsche Kinemathek

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The mirror room of the permanent exhibition.

The Permanent Exhibition

The permanent exhibition focuses on its two defining media – film and television – from their origins to the present. In keeping, the exhibition on the history of film ranges from an 1895 newspaper advertisement highlighting the Wintergarten’s film program to exhibits representing the most recent recipients of the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Prize).

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The Television Media Library inside the museum

Television Media Library

Want to re-watch your favorite detective show? Or want to enjoy one of your favorite comedy broadcasts all over again? The Television Media Library contains roughly 10,000 selected broadcasts in their full length, including all originally broadcast episodes of the German classic detective shows "Tatort" and "Polizeiruf 110."

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Upcoming

Frame by Frame – Restoring Films
28 Oct 21–2 May 22

Detail of the contemporary French distribution copy of ›Das alte Gesetz‹ (GER, 1923, directed by E.A. Dupont)

Photo: Franz Frank, source: Deutsche Kinemathek

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Past exhibitions

2020

Close-Up – The Film Costumes of Barbara Baum
1 Oct 20–9 Aug 21
Klaus Wildenhahn
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Klaus Wildenhahn
18 Jun 20–28 Sep 20
Be Caligari! – The Virtual Cabinet
13 Feb 20–9 Aug 21
Burn Marks – Film Posters from a Salt Mine
28 Nov 19–1 Mar 21
Quelle: WDR

Life, Death and Weddings – Lindenstraße in the Television Media Library
8 Nov 19–23 Mar 20

2019

Burn Marks – Film Posters from a Salt Mine
28 Nov 19–1 Mar 21
Quelle: WDR

Life, Death and Weddings – Lindenstraße in the Television Media Library
8 Nov 19–23 Mar 20
Modern Cinema – Film in the Weimar Republic
20 Jun 19–13 Oct 19
Trophäe Grimme Preis, © Marc Ciabattoni

Award-Winning! The Grimme Archive in the Television Media Library
24 May 19–3 Nov 19
Between the Films – A Photo History of the Berlinale
28 Sep 18–5 May 19

2018

Between the Films – A Photo History of the Berlinale
28 Sep 18–5 May 19
Melancholy and Ease – A special exhibition for Helmut Dietl
29 Jun 18–30 Sep 18
Ufa – The History of a Brand
24 Nov 17–22 Apr 18

2017

Ufa – The History of a Brand
24 Nov 17–22 Apr 18
Robby Müller – Master of Light
6 Jul 17–5 Nov 17
1000 Tatort Crime Scenes – All the Films. All the Cases
1 Nov 16–29 Jan 17
Things to Come – Science · Fiction · Film
30 Jun 16–14 May 17

2016

1000 Tatort Crime Scenes – All the Films. All the Cases
1 Nov 16–29 Jan 17
Things to Come – Science · Fiction · Film
30 Jun 16–14 May 17
A Lola for Regina Ziegler – Films for the Cinema, Television and Theater
3 May 16–19 Jun 16
Forgotten City – Deir Ezzor
12 Apr 16–1 May 16
Best Actress – Oscars®, Roles and Images
10 Dec 15–1 May 16

2015

Best Actress – Oscars®, Roles and Images
10 Dec 15–1 May 16
Deutscher Filmpreis – The Lola in the Museum für Film und Fernsehen
19 Jun 15–11 Oct 15
Bigger Than Life – Ken Adam’s Film Design
11 Dec 14–17 May 15
… and Action! How are Films and Television Made? – An Exhibition for Children from 4 to 14 years
29 May 14–26 Apr 15

2014

Bigger Than Life – Ken Adam’s Film Design
11 Dec 14–17 May 15
… and Action! How are Films and Television Made? – An Exhibition for Children from 4 to 14 years
29 May 14–26 Apr 15
70,000 Years Just Like One Day – Alexander Kluge’s Current Work for Television Films, Plus an Installation – A Place of Enchantment
3 Apr 14–27 Jul 14
The Unseen Seen – Film in a New Light
23 Jan 14–27 Apr 14
Light and Shadow – On the Film Set of the Weimar Republic
23 Jan 14–27 Apr 14

2013

Bernd Eichinger – ... alles Kino (... Everything is Cinema)
28 Jun 13–6 Oct 13
Martin Scorsese
10 Jan 13–12 May 13
40 Years of Sesamstraße – Now Appearing at the Museum für Film und Fernsehen
13 Dec 12–5 May 13

2012

40 Years of Sesamstraße – Now Appearing at the Museum für Film und Fernsehen
13 Dec 12–5 May 13
Heroes – An Exhibition for Children
29 Mar 12–21 Oct 12
On the Set
15 Dec 11–29 Apr 12

2011

On the Set
15 Dec 11–29 Apr 12
Design: Pentagram Design ldt.

Between Film and Art – Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg
11 Aug 11–27 Nov 11
Design: Pentagram Design ldt.

Experimental Television of the 1960s and ’70s
19 May 11–24 Jul 11
Ingmar Bergman – Truth and Lies
27 Jan 11–29 May 11
In the Jungle – An Exhibition for Children
4 Jun 10–27 Mar 11

2010

Das Nossendorf-Projekt – An Installation by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
13 Nov 10–8 Dec 10
In the Jungle – An Exhibition for Children
4 Jun 10–27 Mar 11

2009

Casting a Shadow – Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film
29 Jan 09–14 Jun 09
Water Worlds – A Television Exhibition for Children
29 May 08–11 Jan 09

2008

Water Worlds – A Television Exhibition for Children
29 May 08–11 Jan 09

2007

2006

2005

2004