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Babelsberg - Gesichter einer Filmstadt
("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

Filmmuseum Potsdam: Kleiner Museumsführer
("Filmmuseum Potsdam′s Concise Museum Guide")
A "pocket-size museum" for visitors who would like to remember their visit!
The handy booklet gives an entertaining introduction to all parts of the museum. Just like the permanent exhibition, it provides you with the most important facts and events of the Babelsberg studio history from the silent film era to the present while you encounter Babelsberg stars like Zarah Leander and Manfred Krug. The changing and surprising topics of the travelling exhibition, which give the museum an international atmosphere, are presented as well as the cinema with its three screenings (or more) per day – or the extensive collections, the museum′s treasure troves. This book is for everyone who would like to get informed as well as for vistors who want to remember their visit!
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Texts: Jürgen Bretschneider, Editor: Bärbel Dalichow, 48 pages, 35 illustrations, German/English, paperback, 1 Euro

Daily Soap – Der Weg zum Glück
Katalog zur Ausstellung
("Daily Soap – The Road to Happiness. Exhibition Guide")
Soap operas in Germany and their domestic and international precursors in a pop-art-inspired book for fans and readers interested in cultural history.
This abundantly illustrated catalogue with its pop-art-style layout triggers associations with a daily soap set. The literary predecessors of TV shows such as "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten", "Marienhof", "Unter Uns" and "Verbotene Liebe" are presented, as well as their radio and TV ancestors from both East and West Germany. Why are soaps so fascinating? And what role do the fans play in all this? The book answers these questions.
Author: Hanne Landbeck, Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam 2002, 22 x 27 cm, 96 pages, numerous illustrations, paperback, 3 Euros
Out of print

Generation Soap
Mit deutschen Seifenopern auf dem Weg zum Glück
("Generation Soap – On the Road to Happiness with German Daily Soaps")
An entertaining and proficient tour of TV soaps that also keeps up with scientific standards.
Am I beautiful? Does he really love me? Is my best friend up to some plot against me? "GZSZ", "Marienhof", "Verbotene Liebe", "Unter Uns" and "Lindenstraße" provide us with answers to such pressing questions and others of their kind. Every night, some 12 million viewers follow the aberations of soap protagonists, some of whom rose to stardom beyond the soap universe. The author takes a look behind the scenes, reveals the producer′s strategies and portrays the fans of the fictitious worlds: An enlightening and entertaining survey of the universe in which soap operas flourish. The book was written in 2002, simultaneously with the exhibition at Filmmuseum Potsdam.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Author: Hanne Landbeck, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8098-0, 205 pages, numerous illustrations, paperback, 4.90 Euros
Press: "Author Hanne Landbeck has succeeded in bringing the discourse to a scientific level with her exhibition "Daily Soap - Der Weg zum Glück" and the accompanying book "Generation Soap" ... which means that the trivial topic is now open to intellectual and academic examination as well ... Apart from the real fans, the author hopes that her book will also be read by those who react to the melodramatic TV stories with "bewilderment and disgust" – especially parents and teachers." (Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 October 2002)
Out of print

Leni Riefenstahl
"When harmony is created, I am happy." "I have never denied that I was spellbound by Hitler′s personality. I recognised his demonic side too late; that no doubt makes me guilty, or bedazzled." Who was Leni Riefenstahl? A selfless servant of beauty, versed in many arts, or an unscrupulous careerist laden with irredeemable guilt? Six authors describe and analyse Leni Riefenstahl′s life and art and pose the question why there is so much conflict around her person and her works.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Authors: Claudia Lenssen, Bärbel Dalichow, Oksana Bulgakowa, Felix Moeller, Ines Walk, Georg Seeßlen, Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89487-319-1, 240 pages, 120 black-and-white / colour illustrations
Out of print

Blaue Augen, blauer Fleck
Kino im Wandel von der Diva zum Girlie
("Blue Eyes and Bruises – Cinema between Divas and Girlies")
The image of women never changed more rapidly than during the 20th century. Cinema reflects female role patterns and re-applies them to the real world.
Zarah Leander, Elizabeth Taylor, Rita Tushingham, Angelica Domröse, Lori Petty and Maria Schrader – these film stars serve as examples for the change of role patterns and body images. Diva, working girl or girlie – prototypes of German and British / American cinema in the 20th century announce an unbelievable change in the reality and self-consciousness of women. Brilliant photos and amazing costume drafts by young designers complement the richly illustrated volume.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Claudia Lenssen, Parthas-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-932529-15-4, 21 x 26 cm, 216 pages, approx. 100 black-and-white / colour illustrations, paperback, 5 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)

Filmstadt Babelsberg
Zur Geschichte des Studios und seiner Filme
("Film Metropolis Babelsberg – On the History of the Studios and Their Films")
The exhibition catalogue gives an overview over the Babelsberg film studios′ history and their films from 1912 to 1992. The chapters dealing with "violence and war; fairy tales and myths; the different / strange / forbidden; love / passion / sex; our banner fluttering before us, one second of life; he who laughs last", are essays analysing recurring film themes, which became the subject of the museum′s permanent exhibition, opened in 1994.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Bärbel Dalichow, Caroline Hilker-Siebenhaar, Axel Geiss, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-87584-495-5, 272 pages, 268 black-and-white illustrations, hardcover
Out of print

Indianische Malerei aus Ecuador
("Indian Painting from Ecuador")
The strongly coloured images of the Indian paintings from the Andes villages in Ecuador unite the magical worlds of legend with the reality of rural life beneath the volcanoes. The small catalogue presents seventeen of more than one hundred of the most beautiful paintings from the exhibition shown 1994 in the film museum. The volume is sold for the benefit of the Indians.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Bärbel Dalichow, Rainer Simon, 1994, 20 pages, 17 full-page colour illustrations
Press: "These are the colours of Tigua"; film director Rainer Simon knows it from his personal encounters with the people and landscapes of Ecuador. "The ponchos are so colourful, the light at three thousand metres altitude is so glaring." These powerful colours are preserved for posterity by children and their fathers and mothers living in small shacks. They help them to survive. (Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 28 September 1994)
Out of print

Queer, Derek Jarman
Filmmaker and painter Derek Jarman made homosexuality and AIDS the subjects of large-size paintings as well as of his films. His paintings, exhibited 1993 at the film museum in the series "Queer", are defined by the wish to provoke hypocritical society, and by the conflict between his will to live and his proximity to death.
Publisher and Editor: Martin Baier for "cinemarstall e.V. Potsdam" in cooperation with Richard Salmon Ltd., London, Edition diá Berlin, 1993, 38 pages, black-and-white / colour illustrations
Press: "′Queer′ are the paintings of a dying AIDS patient who knows no painting can change that." (DAW, Vol. 9, 1993)
Out of print

Sandmann auf Reisen
("Sandman on the Road")
In 1993, Filmmuseum Potsdam, together with the TV stations ORB and MDR, sent the Sandman on the road. The travelling exhibition on the cult figure of East German TV was seen by almost 2 million visitors. In the catalogue, you will find the story of and background information on the Sandman by Gerhard Behrendt, a list of Sandman films and the names of those who thought out travel adventures for the little man with his never-ending supply of stories.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Bärbel Dalichow, Volker Petzold, VISTAS Verlag Berlin, 1993, 120 pages, 55 illustrations
Press: "Enthusiasm is unfailing. Doubts arise only about the supposed effect – so much sand, and not a sleepy child in sight! ... The catalogue documents the media history of the little Sandman." (Zitty, Vol. 16, 1993)
Out of print

Im Reiche der Micky Maus
Walt Disney in Deutschland 1927 - 1945
("The World of Mickey Mouse – Walt Disney in Germany 1927 - 1945")
Exhibition catalogue; a critical reflection of the resonance of early Walt Disney animation films in the German Weimar Republic and during the national socialist regime; numerous documents from contemporary press, film business and politics.
Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editors: J.P. Storm, M. Dreßler, Edition Hentrich Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-362-00612-4, 208 pages, black-and-white / colour illustrations
Out of print

Filmplakate 1908 - 1932
("Film Posters 1908 - 1932")
The earliest German film posters are blatant and trivial – part of the history of cinema and of their time. Only rarely does one see outstandingly designed advertising art that could count on art lovers′ blessings, too.
Exhibition catalogue containing two essays by Bärbel Dalichow and Helmut Morsbach, Publisher: Filmmuseum Potsdam, Editor: Michael Maciejok, 1986, 20 x 19 cm, 104 pages, 124 colour illustrations, paperback,
2 Euros