2021 New start
In August, filmclub münster resumed operations after a long break due to the pandemic and has since presented a restructured programme with new partners. The Westfälischer Kunstverein, the Münstersche Filmtheater Betriebe and the Filmwerkstatt have been joined by Burg Hülshoff – Center of Literature. The film selection will be presented in three programme series: Annual Theme, Filmplädoyer and Freifläche.
Film series and exhibitions until 2020
The departure of Peter Stark and David Kluge was compensated for by the commitment of Winfried Bettmer and Carsten Happe from the Filmwerkstatt Münster, and with the increased involvement of the Westfälischer Kunstverein, series run parallel to exhibitions.
In addition to the political and film-historical focus, the
Indian and Russian Film Days with international premieres.
premieres.
1995 Reorganisation
After a financial dry spell in the early 1990s, the film club was restructured again in 1995 and expanded to include the Filmwerkstatt Münster, VHS and Münstersche Filmtheaterbetriebe.
Peter Stark was in charge and with the logo eye, the programme booklets and the posters by David Kluge, the film series gained a new visibility.
1970 End and new beginning
The heyday of film clubs ended in the 1960s and the era of municipal arthouse cinemas began. For the Filmclub Münster, however, a new upswing began with the involvement of the Volkshochschule in 1970, the Westfälischer Kunstverein in 1974 and the AStA in 1975. The Filmclub Münster developed into a place for a repertoire programme away from the commercial mainstream and showed retrospectives over the length of a semester and premieres of SOLARIS, MAY 1968, SCHLACHT UM CHILE.
1956 Move to the Schloßtheater
Together with Peter Pleyer, a former Filmclub employee and lecturer in journalism, now managing director of the Schloßtheater, the programme moved to the cinema on Kanonierplatz, where the Filmclub programmes are still shown today.
The Schloßtheater, built in 1953, is one of the oldest cinemas in the “Guild of German Film Art” and is a listed building.
1949
The publicist Walter Hagemann, often referred to as the father of the German film club movement, was president of the Filmclub Münster in its early years and ensured its close ties to the university.
The club quickly reached 1,200 members and began its monthly programme of film screenings as part of discussion evenings. The programme featured “outstanding films of German or foreign production from the present or past”.
1948
The filmclub münster was founded on 11 June 1948 as a film club in the British occupation zone. This makes it the oldest film club still in existence in Germany.
The aim of the founders was to awaken an understanding of film as an independent work of art in post-war Germany and to lay the foundations for a new cultural awareness.
The film clubs were founded as part of the Democratic Reeducation Policy of the three Western occupying powers, modelled on the French Ciné-Clubs and the British Film Societies