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

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("Babelsberg – Faces of a Film Metropolis")
Gripping film stories from Babelsberg about artistic and political ups and downs. The guide accompanies the exhibition of the same name with first-hand information and material.
Film lovers associate the Babelsberg′s name with the faces of the stars who worked there in front of the camera: Asta Nielsen, Marlene Dietrich, Hans Albers, Manfred Krug or Matt Damon. Babelsberg was the home of Bioscop for 10 years, of Ufa for 23 years and of DEFA for another 46 years. Nowadays, the thoroughly modernised Babelsberg studio facilities attract the producers of big international productions and popular TV series. Film in Babelsberg has always been, right from the beginning in 1912, closely connected to German politics and contemporary history. These influences shaped the looks and the productions of the film metropolis significantly – and this is what the book focuses on.
Some of the Babelsberg films – more than 3000 altogether – have been screened all over the world and achieved legendary status, some have been – justifiably or unfortunately – forgotten. Especially films from the DEFA era, the longest and least-known period of the studio’s history so far, are described extensively and with much attention to detail. Numerous film stills and photographs of exhibits as well as the appealing layout and design render the book extremely vivid.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editors: Jürgen Bretschneider, Bärbel Dalichow, Henschel Verlag Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-89487-508-9, 17 x 24 cm, paperback, 176 pages including register, 150 illustrations,
German / English, 9.90 Euros

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)

Fairyland – With Little Mook Through the World of Fairy Tale Films

How do you waltz? How do you make meatballs in parsley dip?
Well, you better know in order to be prepared for King Thrushbeard’s wedding! The quiz booklet will help you answer such tricky questions. It teaches you how to play the brave soldier’s song from "The Pocket Lighter" on the flute. It tells you how to grow a tree. There are also lots of riddles and handcraft works for all children who find it hard to leave the exhibition and would like to take something home with them. Little Mook will guide you through the seven fairy tales in the exhibition. He is an old hand with films, and he will explain some things he knows about filmmaking. And, finally, you can write your own, up-to-date tale of Little Red Riding Hood – the tale’s beginning is in the booklet! If you send us your fairy tale (we would love you to illustrate it, too!), we will put it in the exhibition for all visitors to read!

The quiz booklet was created in the studio of Berlin art design team "h neun". "h neun" has also done the text boards and the storybooks for the exhibition.

In the museum shop, you can buy the quiz booklet without stretching your budget of pocket money – it′s only 1.50 Euros.