100 YEARS STUDIO BABELSBERG The Art of Filmmaking

Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2012, Babelsberg is the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. From box-office hits to artistic triumphs, they’ve all been created here. These sound stages, where such stars as Marlene Dietrich were born, are the real birthplace of German film. Babelsberg has always been a source of technical and artistic innovation: in fact, many key developments in camera techniques and sound recording originated within these walls. This comprehensive overview covers all aspects of the cinematic arts, from sets to scripts and costumes. All stages of the studio’s history are represented, including the golden years of Weimar cinema and Babelsberg’s recent re-emergence as an international commercial and cultural presence.



The definitive book for every movie lover
A fascinating overview of all elements of film history produced in collaboration with the Film and Television University (HFF), “Konrad Wolf,” and the Filmmuseum Potsdam

Published by teNeues in February 2012 (Overseas: March 2012)
Size: 27.5 x 34 cm / 10 5/6 x 13 3/8 in. / 260 pp. Hardcover with jacket / c. 250 color and b/w photographs / Text in German and English
ISBN: 978-3-8327-9609-9 / € 59.90 $ 80 £ 49.95

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Program: Andrea Rehn, Phone: 02152-916-202, Fax: 02152-916-222, E-Mail: arehn@teneues.de

New Publication: The Welte cinema organ

Music affects emotions – which is why it has been integral to the film world for over 100 years.

Today, silent films with organ accompaniment are nostalgic experiences.
Here you can read about the invention of the cinema organ, how it works and where the Filmmuseum’s Welte-Cinema-Organ came from. Inaugurated in 1929, it has been pleasing the audience in Potsdam since 1993.
As soon as an organist sits down at the organ, which barely escaped the scrapyard, cinemagoers realise what a worthwhile rescue operation it was.

Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam 2009, Editor: Bärbel Dalichow, 68 pages, 22 illustrations,
ISBN: 978-39812104-1-5, 5 Euros

JUGO A Film History in Clothes

The exhibition at Filmmuseum Potsdam, which was developed in cooperation with Modemuseum Schloss Meyenburg, is dedicated to Ufa star Jenny Jugo.

Historical film costumes from the estate of the actress that became part of Filmmuseum Potsdam’s collections in 2006 are at the centre of the exhibition. After an extensive
restoration process, the museum presents the biggest closed collection of costumes from German film before 1950.

The museum especially wishes to thank Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek and GS Druck und Medien GmbH Potsdam for their support in producing this exhibition catalogue.





Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, 2008, Editor: Guido Altendorf, ISBN 978-3-98 12104-0-8, 24 x 30 cm, paperback, 80 pages, 110 illustrations, German / English 9,90 Euros
Photos (Title Page and Costumes) by Ulrike Neuwirth / Design and Typesetting by Kerstin Barkmann
Printing and Binding by GS Druck und Medien GmbH Potsdam
Translations into English by Martin Fischer / Translation of “Jenny Jugo Revisited” by Sachiko Schmidt

Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann

("The Pictures of the Witness Schattmann")
A research on a television film.
An extensive collection of material concerning the film (GDR 1971/72) which was named after the autobiographic novel written by the Auschwitz survivor Peter Edel. The collection documents the work, the genesis and the reception of the film. Contributors look back.
A booklet on the event (film, panel discussion and showcase exhibition) by the Potsdam Film Museum in cooperation with the German National Broadcasting Archives (DRA) and the Moses Mendelssohn Center (MMZ), funded by the State Center for Political Education Brandenburg (LpB Brandenburg) and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS).
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, 2007, Editor: Elke Schieber, 21 x 15 cm, paperback, 56 pages, 20 illustrations, German

Der Marstall – Das älteste Bauwerk von Potsdam

("The Marstall – Potsdam′s Oldest Building")
A book full of facts about the architectural and social history of Potsdam′s oldest building, where, in 1981, the film museum was established.
In 1981, the first German film museum with both cinema and exhibitions opened in Potsdam. Its early history is closely tied to the struggle to preserve the Marstall building. The royal horse stables were the last remnant of the once impressive city castle and garden area. The more than 300-year-long, varied history of the house as an orangery, horse stable and museum is described with more than eighty illustrations and three essay-style texts, rich of facts.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Maren Ulbrich, 1996, 22 x 27 cm, 88 pages, numerous black-and-white illustrations, paperback, 4 Euros
Press: "On the 250th anniversary of the building, the film museum showed a special exhibition and published a catalogue dedicated to the city′s oldest preserved building. Maren Ulbrich′s contribution on the history of the building is remarkable ... (as well as) the comments by Bärbel Dalichow on everyday work and life of the Marstall staff." (Achse, Rad und Wagen, Vol. 4, 1996)