Preview - Zeughauskino | Deutsches Historisches Museum

05. April - 06. May 2025

Who’s Afraid of Kitsch and Kino?

The Films of Vicki Baum

The retrospective "Who's Afraid of Kitsch and Kino? The Films of Vicki Baum” traces the writer's influence on cinema and offers a journey through international film history. The program is structured around key themes in Vicki Baum's oeuvre.

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06. April 2025

Open Your Ears!

Inclusive Cinema ... With Audio Description

For the upcoming audio film program, the focus will be on “Berlin films”, i.e. feature films that show our city in the past and present and tell of Berlin and its inhabitants. Open your ears! We listen to the voices and sounds of the city!

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08. April - 29. April 2025

“Nobody Welcomed Us”

The Liberation of Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen 80 Years Ago

The beginning of May 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. To mark the occasion, numerous events will be held at the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, the Death March Memorial in the Below Forest and the Klinkerwerk Subcamp Memorial. To accompany these events, the Zeughauskino, in cooperation with the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, is showing four evenings of feature films and documentaries that approach the site and its stories in very different ways.

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25. April - 18. May 2025

The 5th Channel

Uwe Johnson and the GDR Television

The film program The 5th Channel presents selected television programs and films that Johnson wrote about in the Tagesspiegel and explains how the writer commented on these productions.

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09. May - 10. May 2025

Collect Films!

Egbert Barten and the Geoffrey Donaldson Instituut from Noord-Scharwoude

Not far from Alkmaar, Egbert Barten founded the private Geoffrey Donaldson Instituut in his home town of Noord-Scharwoude in 2013, named after the Australian pioneer of Dutch film historiography (1929-2002). Exhibitions and film screenings are held here regularly. Egbert Barten has made a selection for the Zeughauskino that is as varied as it is instructive: from comedies from the silent film era to West German film noir, from sophisticated psychological thrillers to satire about the behavior of German tourists on the campsite.

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16. May - 27. June 2025

Testify and Tell

Early Images of the Liberated Camps

How did post-war societies come to terms with the experience of violence and destruction caused by the Second World War and the occupation of large parts of Europe by National Socialist Germany? This question will be the focus of the exhibition at the Deutsches Historisches Museum from May 24, 2025. "Exhibiting Violence. First Exhibitions of Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-1948" and the film programme "Testify and Tell. Early Images of the Liberated Camps" in the Zeughauskino.

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23. May - 29. June 2025

What Was to Remain of the GDR

The GDR State Film Documentation

The State Film Documentation (SFD), which operated from 1970 to 1986 at Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin, was an “exotic” organization in the GDR film industry: SFD productions were handed over to the GDR State Film Archive for storage as soon as they were completed. There, in the stacks, they were to survive for 30, 50 or even 100 years in order to serve as visual and source material for later filmmakers or academics.

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20. June - 21. June 2025

Collect Films!

Golden Bears and Dancing Images from the Collection of Roman Avianus

In our ongoing series Collect Films! in June, Roman Avianus from Berlin will give us an insight into his collection. He is the managing director of the camera rental company 25p in Prenzlauer Berg, a producer and, since his youth, a collector of everything to do with film.

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