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Museum cinema
Ernemann VII B

Cinema series - Daily film programme - Animated film - Silent film days
Location

Dresden Technology Collections

Junghansstraße 1 - 3

01277 Dresden

Tickets

Tickets can be booked online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351-488 727 2 (Mon-Fri).

Since 2002, the Ernemann VII B museum cinema has been showing special film series beyond the mainstream. The focus is on film-historical developments or social issues that are dealt with on the screen in a very unique way. Instead of advertising, there is a film introduction for the audience before each screening.

In the museum cinema, the projection room still rattles and nothing works without a projectionist. Original ERNEMANN VII B cinema projectors from the museum's own collection are regularly put into operation and take you back to the world of film. 35mm and 16mm film technology can be experienced here.

Silent film evenings with piano accompaniment are a speciality. Film series, specials, talks with filmmakers and a daily cinema programme make the small cinema a meeting place for cineastes

In 2018, the ERNEMANN VII B museum cinema received one of the DEFA Foundation's three programme awards.

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Jewish life in German film after 1945 – repressed and lived memory

MARCH - MAY 2026

The portrayal of Jewish life and culture in German post-war film is a story of absence and defence against guilt, of slowly coming to terms with the past and finally of polyphonic normality. After 1945, East and West Germany developed distinctly different cinematic approaches to Judaism, which were closely linked to the respective political systems, ideological frameworks and historical narratives.

As part of TACHELES - Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony 2026

A cooperation between Museumskino Dresden e. V. in the Dresden Technology Collections and Clubkino im Lingnerschloss

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Daily in the museum cinema

10.00 | 14.00
Dresden three-dimensional

11.00 | 15.00
DEFA animated film classics

12.30
The Goldberg Condition. See more than you can see

16.00 h
Emanuel Goldberg and Dresden

Rumpelstilzchen 8 DEFA Stiftung JürgenHoffmann

ANIMANIA – Films of the German Institute for Animated Film

ANIMANIA is the name of the series of events that the DIAF has been presenting in cooperation with the Dresden Technology Collections since 2017. To accompany the permanent or current special exhibition, the institute shows specially curated film programmes for an adult audience on ANIMANIA evenings. In addition to poetic, humorous and sad, yet always charming and sophisticated works, film experiments are also occasionally shown on the screen. Occasionally, filmmakers are guests who provide insights into the artistic and technical creative process, contextualise their films and answer questions from the audience.

Current dates
Stummfilmtage 2024 MuseumskinoFoto: ©Anja Schneider

11. Dresden Silent Film Festival

8. - 15 MAR 2026

The programme of the Silent Film Festival 2026 includes classics and almost forgotten films, all of which were milestones in film history in artistic or technical terms. On show will be one of the first children's screen stars, one of the first Technicolor colour films, one of the first space adventures on film, a film of which a silent and a sound film version were produced in parallel, a silent film of the 21st century and, with Lotte Reiniger's "The Silent Film Festival", a film of the 20th century. And with Lotte Reiniger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", the first feature-length animated film, which will be accompanied by a new composition for two violins, viola, cello, piano, flute and bassoon to mark the 100th anniversary of its premiere.

Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

www.dresdnerstummfilmtage.de

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The invisible citizen – Erich Kästner as screenwriter

19.1. – 19.4.2024

A film series as part of »ALLES KÄSTNER - Events to mark the 125th birthday of Erich Kästner«

The screenwriter Erich Kästner liked to remain in the shadows. As an aspiring writer and media all-rounder in the Weimar Republic, the medium of film was a means of expression and a source of income for him. However, Kästner learnt to write screenplays in collaboration with other authors and his contributions often remained unnamed or concealed. In Nazi Germany, the confidently ironic play with authorial identities became a bitter necessity: Erich Kästner came to terms with the circumstances and was only able to publish under pseudonyms such as »Berthold Bürger«. When he wrote his most ambitious screenplay, the UFA anniversary film «Münchhausen«, he was omitted from the credits. Rehabilitated as a classic in West Germany, Kästner adapted his own works for film: true to the original, but sensitive to the current zeitgeist.

We would like to thank the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, MFA-Film and the film agents, the Stiftung Medienarchiv Bielefeld for their support in procuring the film and for the visual material.

Programme booklet for Download
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Dresden Silent Film Festival

Silent films and live music in the ERNEMANN VII B museum cinema and other venues

The Dresden Silent Film Festival shows rarities from the early years of film art on a theme that has long been at home in the science exhibitions of the Technology Collections: the science and technology-driven utopias and dystopias of science fiction. On display are classics such as »Metropolis« and »Aelita« as well as rarely shown works such as »A Cosmic Journey« and »Miracle of Creation«. The latter is regarded as a forerunner of modern documentary film, which shows hypothetical journeys in the solar system and to distant stars and is based on the state of knowledge of contemporary astronomy.

www.dresdnerstummfilmtage.de

Calendar

Fri / 29. May
19:30
With registration
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Trick after school and after work

Animated films by GDR amateurs

Director: Lieselotte Schließer, Ulf Grenzer, Manfred Seifert and others, GDR 1956-1989, ca. 90 min

GDR amateur filmmakers turned to animation with imagination and fresh humour. Over 200 short films were made, often satirical and surprisingly critical. The programme brings together rare examples of this filmmaking and focuses on Saxon actors - such as Lieselotte Schließer, Manfred Seifert and the Pionierfilmstudio Dresden.

  • Moderator: Dr Ralf Forster, film historian and DIAF board member, Potsdam
  • Admission 7 €
  • Admission 30 minutes before the film starts
  • Reservation online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
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