{"id":16157,"date":"2026-05-03T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:30:03","slug":"film-series-at-the-bundesplatz-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/film-series-at-the-bundesplatz-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Film series at the Bundesplatz Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”16332″ img_size=”full” css=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777897700858{margin-right: 50px !important;}”]22 April marks the 81st anniversary of the death of K\u00e4the Kollwitz (1867\u20131945) \u2013 one of the most significant graphic artists and sculptors of the 20th century. We commemorate an artist whose view of the world was characterised by deep empathy and social awareness. Yet K\u00e4the Kollwitz\u2019s life and times cannot be fully understood through drawings and prints alone. The cinema of the 1920s and early 1930s also tells of the upheavals, hopes and tensions that surrounded her.<\/p>\n

As part of the current special exhibition, the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum Berlin, in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundesplatz-Kino, invites you to a special cinematic weekend: Under the title \u201cK\u00e4the Kollwitz Goes to the Cinema\u201d, four films that K\u00e4the Kollwitz is known to have known and appreciated will be screened at the Bundesplatz-Kino on 25 and 26 April 2026.<\/p>\n

The programme forms part of the current special exhibition \u201cK\u00e4the Kollwitz and the Theatre\u201d and offers a new perspective on the artist: as an attentive witness to her times, including the early days of cinema.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Film series at the Bundesplatz-Kino<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201eK\u00e4the Kollwitz goes to the Cinema”<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saturday 25 April and Sunday 26 April 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Admission is 10 euros per film per person.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777897751276{margin-right: 50px !important;}”]The world-famous graphic artist and sculptor K\u00e4the Kollwitz was fascinated by the then-new medium of film and is known to have attended cinema screenings. In 1934, in her response to a survey of prominent figures conducted by the journalist Carl Seelig on behalf of the *Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung*, she named six films that she particularly admired.<\/p>\n

The Bundesplatz Cinema is presenting four of these works. Two of them also bear a special personal connection: they feature Maria Matray, a niece of K\u00e4the Kollwitz. Thus, the films not only provide a historical context but also reveal a surprisingly immediate closeness \u2013 between artistic creation, family ties and the moving images of an era that also shaped Kollwitz.<\/p>\n

We invite you to rediscover these connections: in the exhibition, in the film programme and through mindful viewing.<\/p>\n

Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction by Dr Annette Seeler, guest curator of the special exhibition at the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum in Berlin.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=”16159″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_separator][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6866″ img_size=”381×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Lotte Reiniger, 1926<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lotte Reiniger, Dancing Couple, paper cut
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Stadtmuseum T\u00fcbingen \u00a9 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022<\/em><\/p>\n

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