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The Deutsche Kinemathek is one of Europe’s leading institutions dedicated to audiovisual heritage. From 2025, the Kinemathek will move from its previous location at Potsdamer Platz to the E-Werk in Berlin-Mitte, while planning for a new film house continues. The programme will continue in these transitional quarters – with proven formats and new ideas – and will continue to offer exciting insights into film and television culture.
Collecting, preserving, cataloguing, presenting and communicating the audiovisual heritage – these have been the tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek since its opening in 1963. The object is everything that belongs to film and television history: the estate of Marlene Dietrich, the archives of the director Werner Herzog or the television documentarist Georg Stefan Troller as well as important screenplays, including scripts from Carl Mayer to Christian Petzold. The Kinemathek promotes the examination of moving images with a varied educational and event programme. Its archives and specialised library are central points of contact for research and science and remain accessible. Film distribution, with around 20,000 titles, remains an important part of the Kinemathek, as do the film series and festivals.
Until 31 October 2024, the Kinemathek presented a permanent exhibition on German film and television history in its Museum of Film and Television, supplemented by changing special exhibitions. In the second half of 2025, it will take up exhibition operations in the E-Werk.
Photos: 1.) E-Werk Berlin-Mitte, Photo: Andreas Nenninger, Photography;
2.) former Filmhaus at Potsdamer Platz, 2020, Photo: Verena Brandt
