Film and media archive

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Image: Stefanie Kreuzer

Where

Campus
Hopla
34125 Kassel
KW 5 (R. 3045)

Opening hours

Research and viewing options in the film archive: Mon./Mi./Fri. 9-13:30 (until mid-Oct. 2022). Please make an (e-mail) appointment in advance.

Database search

on the intranet of the University of Kassel (with university ID at: https: //filmarchiv.uni-kassel.de) or via the database information system(DBIS) of Kassel University Library with library card number

Contact us

Film and Media Archive at the University of Kassel
in FB 02 Humanities and Cultural Studies
Head: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kreuzer
E-Mail: Filmarchiv[at]uni-kassel.de
Phone +49 (0)561 / 804-3330

Collection criteria/focus

Film studies/historical focus

  • Films from German-language film and television history
  • Early films up to the 1960s (focus: German-language films)
  • Classics of international film
  • cinematic adaptations or 'literary adaptations' of (especially German-language) 'literary classics'
  • Films with complex/interesting/unusual narrative structures (see Puzzle Films, Complex Story Telling ...)
  • Films that have won national and international awards

Kassel projects/collections

  • Films/digitizations of the Kassel Film Archive
  • Films by the Kassel Film Collective (cooperation project with Prof. Jan Peters, Kunsthochschule Kassel)
  • Film documentaries on the Grimm Poetry Professorships (GPP) since 2018
  • GPP accompanying film series (under construction since 2021)

Documentaries: Theater, literature, art, culture ...

  • TV recordings of theater productions
  • Documentaries, especially on literary, theatrical, cinematic, visual art and media topics

News & Archive

HNA reporting (April 4, 2022)
University press release on the online launch of the digital database (April 10, 2022)

The history of the archive

  • Viewing options for film files in the film/media archive (FB 02, KW 5) and in the Kassel University Library (planned for summer semester 2022)
  • 2022 digital database relaunch of the film/media archive with activation of the digital film database on the intranet of the University of Kassel (with university ID) and via the database information system(DBIS) of the University Library Kassel (with user ID no.)
  • 2018-2021 Programming and since 2022 maintenance of the digital database and administration structures by Prof. Dr. Klaus David and Sebastian Lange (FB 16 | Comtec)
  • since 2017 Continuation, expansion and new conception of the collection by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kreuzer
  • Foundation of the media archive by Prof. Dr. Peter Seibert