Archival Spaces 342 Wolfgang Klaue (1935-2024) Uploaded 8 March 2024 Wolfgang Klaue, the former director of the Stattliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA) and, after German reunification, the founding director of the DEFA Stiftung, died on 16 February. He was a giant in the field of film preservation, winning a UNESCO Silver Medal in 1988, founding theContinue reading “342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue”
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339: Kinemathek Update
Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”
324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler
Archival Spaces 324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler 23 June 2023 On Tuesday, a friend in Berlin sent me a German newspaper digital clipping with the news that the former director of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Hans Helmut Prinzler, had died on Sunday 18 June. During the day I kept thinking about how our livesContinue reading “324: RIP Hans Helmut Prinzler”
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