Deutsches Filminstitut

The German Film Institute - DIF is a film studies institution in Frankfurt am Main.

History

The German Film Institute was founded under the name Deutsches Institute of Film Studies (DIF ) on 13 April 1949. Three years later, in 1952, the German Film Archive was established as an independent department of the DIF. Due to a reorganization of the film archive in 1956 separated from the Institute. On January 1, 1959 different Hanns Wilhelm Lavies ( he had his archive of Film Studies in Marburg in 1947 ) from the Institute of and was succeeded by Max Lippmann.

Between 1966 and 1981 was Theo Fuerstenau front of the institute. 1981 Gerd Albrecht was appointed Director of the DIF. Since 1 February 1997 Claudia Dillmann head of the institution, which since 30 October 1999 officially " German Film Institute - DIF " is called.

The German Film Institute has one of the largest film archives in the Federal Republic and one of the most extensive collections of material on all aspects of film art and cinema. In March 2006 the German Film Institute merged with the German Film Museum.

In Frankfurt- Fechenheim district, the Institute maintains the devices archive. There are more than 2800 individual items such as cameras, cutting tables and accessories are kept to about 600 square meters.

Projects of the Institute are:

  • The edition of censorship decisions of the Berlin film Oberprüfstelle from the years 1920 to 1938
  • COLLATE - A collaborative system for annotating and indexing of archive materials
  • EFG - The European Film Gateway - portal to digital collections of European film archives
  • Filmarchives -online.eu - Union Catalogue of European film archives
  • Filmportal.de - An internet portal on German film
  • Institutions -border integration of standard data ( IN2N )

The DIF is a member of the German Kinemathekenverbund and in the Association of Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE).

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