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* MinR'in Ulrike Kiesche, as a representative of the [[Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts|Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts]] for the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Länder (KMK)
* Antonio Exacoustos
* Alfred Holighaus
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| footnotes           = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://ffkb.at/en/cubeportfolio/ernst-szedebits/|title=Ernst Szedebits|date=n.d.|publisher=[[Kitzbuehel Film Festival|Filmfestival Kitzbühel]]|access-date=October 31, 2018|quote=Ernst Szebedits, partner of new pegasos filmproduktion and longtime chairman of the Association of the Hessian Film Industry, was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Murnau Foundation under the chairmanship of Eberhard Junkersdorf.|archive-date=November 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101135901/http://ffkb.at/en/cubeportfolio/ernst-szedebits/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/silent-film-director-f-w-murnaus-head-stolen-german-crypt-n392811|title='Nosferatu' Director F.W. Murnau's Head Stolen From German Crypt|last=Johnson|first=Alex|date=July 15, 2015|work=[[NBC News]]|access-date=October 31, 2018|quote="We have received this news with disbelief," documentary film director Ernst Szebedits, managing director of the foundation, said Wednesday.}}</ref><ref name=dirinterview /><ref name=FOCALaward /><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/stiftung/kuratorium|title=Kuratorium|date=n.d.|publisher=Murnau Stiftung|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref> 

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The '''Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation''' ({{lang-de|'''Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung'''}}{{needs IPA}}), based in [[Wiesbaden]], was founded in 1966 to preserve and curate a collection of the works of [[F.W. Murnau|Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]] as well as a collection of other German films<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/rhein-main-zeitung/metropolis-in-der-urfassung-1923881.html|title="Metropolis" in der Urfassung|last=|first=|date=6 March 2009|work=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]|accessdate=6 December 2011|language=German}}</ref> totaling to about 6,000 produced between 1890 and 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/filmbestand|title=Filmbestand der Murnau-Stiftung|language=German|access-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref><ref name=dirinterview>{{cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/20796568.html|title=50th anniversary of the Murnau Foundation: Keeper of the German Film Treasure|last=Hetebrügge|first=Jörn|date=July 2016|publisher=[[Goethe-Institut]]|others=Translated by Jonathan Uhlaner|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101013533/https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/flm/20796568.html|archive-date=November 1, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=October 31, 2018}} <!-- Please find the original German version of this as well, so we can cite the German one and simply make the citation detailed enough to link to the translation etc. --></ref> 

== History ==
The foundation is owned by the [[Federal Republic of Germany]]{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} and was founded in 1966 out of fear that classic [[Cinema of Germany|German cinema]]'s original stock, and the rights to these films, would be sold off internationally. The stock was originally owned by [[Bertelsmann]].<ref name="dirinterview" /> The foundation maintains about 80% of Germany's forbidden Nazi-era films and acts as a gate keeper for public access to these films via archives and curated public screenings.

As an archive and rights holder{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} the Murnau Foundation curates {{According to whom|date=November 2018|a significant part of Germany’s movie heritage.}} Its most important endowment is the unique, cohesive movie stock, which comprises copies and material as well as rights from the former production companies [[Universum Film AG|UFA]], Decla,{{Ref|b|b}} [[Universum Film|Universum-Film]], [[Bavaria Film|Bavaria]], [[Terra Film|Terra]], [[Tobis Film|Tobis]] and Berlin-Film.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/stiftung|title=Über Die Murnau-Stiftung|date=n.d.|publisher=Murnau Stiftung|language=German|access-date=November 1, 2018|quote=Wichtigstes Stiftungskapital ist der einzigartige, in sich geschlossene Filmstock, der Kopien und Materialien der ehemaligen Produktionsfirmen Ufa, Universum-Film, Bavaria, Terra, Tobis und Berlin-Film – samt den damit verbundenen Rechten – aus über sechs Jahrzehnten deutscher Filmproduktion umfasst.}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> This outstanding inventory of cultural and film history – more than 6,000 silent movies and sound films (feature films, documentaries, short movies and commercials) – covers the period from [[History of film#Early period|the beginnings of motion pictures]] to the early 1960s, and includes movies by important directors such as [[Fritz Lang]], [[Ernst Lubitsch]], [[Detlef Sierck]], [[Helmut Käutner]], and [[F.W. Murnau|Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]], the namesake of the foundation.<ref name=":3" /> {{According to whom|date=November 2018|The best-known}} titles include [[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]] from 1920, [[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]<ref name="dirinterview" /> from 1927, [[The Blue Angel]] from 1930, [[The Three from the Filling Station (1930 film)|The Three from the Filling Station]] from 1930, [[Münchhausen (film)|''Münchhausen'']] from 1943 and ''[[Große Freiheit Nr. 7]]'' from 1944.<ref name=":0" />

=== Theaters ===
{{Expand section|date=November 2018}}The foundation runs "the German Film House in a central location in the state capital of Hesse – Wiesbaden" as well as the "Murnau cinema theatre where films are shown to the public and a multi-function area where numerous events and exhibitions are held."<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/EN/Networkpartner/friedrich-wilhelm-murnau-stiftung.html|title=Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation|date=n.d.|website=Arts in Exile|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref>

== Restorations & film stock ==
The foundation's most prominent film restoration was the [[Metropolis (1927 film)#The Complete Metropolis (2010)|2010 re-release of Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'']] which was originally screened at the [[60th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="dirinterview" /> It has additionally restored, with financial support from the prior owners of their film stock, [[Bertelsmann]], [[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]] which premiered "at the [[64th Berlin International Film Festival#Berlinale Classics|Berlinale]] in February 2014"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/news/bertelsmann-brings-restored-film-classic-the-cabinet-of-dr.-caligari-to-paris.jsp|title=Bertelsmann Brings Restored Film Classic 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' to Paris|date=September 28, 2015|publisher=[[Bertelsmann]]|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref> which it won an award for best archive restoration in 2015 from [[FOCAL International]].<ref name=FOCALaward>{{Cite news|url=https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-news/news/1926/footage-award-winners-honoured-at-focal-internationals-12th-annual-gala-awards-ceremony|title=Footage Award Winners Honoured at FOCAL International's 12th Annual Gala Awards Ceremony|last=|first=|date=May 22, 2015|work=[[FOCAL International]]|access-date=November 1, 2018|quote=Best Archive Restoration / Preservation Title Sponsored by ACSIL • Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung (Germany)|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132237/https://www.focalint.org/focal-international-news/news/1926/footage-award-winners-honoured-at-focal-internationals-12th-annual-gala-awards-ceremony|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/specials/the-cabinet-of-dr.-caligari/|title='The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' – A Classic Goes Digital|publisher=[[Bertelsmann]]|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bertelsmann.com/news-and-media/news/bertelsmann-brings-restored-film-classic-the-cabinet-of-dr.-caligari-to-paris.jsp|title=Bertelsmann Presents Restored Movie Classic 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' in New York: Highlight of the German Films Festival 'KINO! 2016'|date=April 12, 2016|publisher=[[Bertelsmann]]|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref><ref name="dirinterview" /> The foundation was also involved in the restoration of Fritz Lang's ''[[Destiny (1921 film)|Destiny]]'' which had "faded and degraded almost beyond recognition."<ref name=WilkeningInterview>{{cite web|url=http://moviessilently.com/2016/08/26/interview-with-anke-wilkening-of-the-friedrich-wilhelm-murnau-stiftung-regarding-the-restored-destiny/|title=Interview with Anke Wilkening of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung regarding the restored 'Destiny'|last=Kramer|first=Fritzi|date=August 26, 2016|website=Movies Silently|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827070626/http://moviessilently.com/2016/08/26/interview-with-anke-wilkening-of-the-friedrich-wilhelm-murnau-stiftung-regarding-the-restored-destiny/|archive-date=August 27, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/destiny-an-eye-popping-restoration-of-fritz-lang-s-classic-1.3109330|title=Destiny: an eye-popping restoration of Fritz Lang’s classic|last=Brady|first=Tara|date=June 8, 2017|work=[[The Irish Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801035303/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/destiny-an-eye-popping-restoration-of-fritz-lang-s-classic-1.3109330|archive-date=August 1, 2017|url-status=live|quote=The Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation and its partners spent more than a year restoring the original colours and intertitles to a film that, since its 1921 heyday, had faded and degraded almost beyond recognition.}}</ref> The foundation maintains about 80%<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13843450/Wie-viel-Gift-steckt-noch-in-den-Vorbehaltsfilmen.html|title=Wie viel Gift steckt noch in den 'Vorbehaltsfilmen'?|last=Rodek|first=Hanns-Georg|date=January 31, 2012|work=[[Die Welt|Welt]]|access-date=November 1, 2018|language=German}}</ref> of Germany's forbidden [[Nazism and cinema|Nazi-era films]]{{ref|a|a}} referring to this collection of 40 films<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Ich-klage-an-3384846.html|title=Ich klage an!|last=Schmid|first=Hans|date=March 27, 2010|website=[[Telepolis]]|language=German|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref> as "reserved" films which are "propagandistic productions created under Hitler, which may only be used for scientific evaluation in Germany and within the framework of political education."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/film/hitlers-propaganda-filme-wenn-aus-dem-einmarsch-eine-heimkehr-wird-3119930|title=Hitlers Propaganda-Filme Wenn aus dem Einmarsch eine Heimkehr wird|last=Westphal|first=Anke|date=March 5, 2014|work=[[Berliner Zeitung]]|access-date=November 1, 2018|language=German}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kinofenster.de/filme/ausgaben/kf0105/ein_sonderfall_deutscher_kulturgeschichte_vom_umgang_mit_nspropagandafilmen/|title=Ein Sonderfall deutscher Kulturgeschichte: Vom Umgang mit NS-Propagandafilmen|last=Heinzelmann|first=Herbert|date=September 21, 2006|website=KinoFenster.de|language=German|access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref> This collection includes the notorious [[Jud Süß (1940 film)|''Jud Süß'']], ''[[Quax the Crash Pilot]]'', ''[[Kolberg (film)|Kolberg]]'', ''[[Ich klage an|I Accuse]]'', and ''[[The Eternal Jew (1940 film)|The Eternal Jew]]''.<ref name="dirinterview" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sampson|first=Sally|date=1993|title=The Limits of Liberty|journal=[[Index on Censorship]]|volume=22|issue=10|pages=2–3|doi=10.1080/03064229308535609|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

== Criticism ==
The treatment of reserved films by the Murnau Foundation has been met with criticism. Critics accuse the foundation of misusing copyrights for film censorship and not for the intended purpose of copyright law where, they argue, the government should institute a ban through legislation instead. Unlike the [[Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft|FSK]], there are no legal evaluations for the decisions of the Board of Trustees. Critics also point out the opaque process of deciding which films should be reserved, noting that there is no transparent criteria, the experts consulted are not publicized, and any reports used are not publicized. For instance, the film ''[[Der alte und der junge König|The Old and the Young King]]'' contains Nazi propaganda, however, it was allowed to be screened publicly. Additionally, the nature of the reserved film screenings has been criticized, since the ''only'' option is to view them with accompanying expert supervision, commentary, and discussion.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

== Notes ==
*{{note|a}}Called ''Vorbehaltsfilme'' in German. See also the [[:de:Vorbehaltsfilm|German language entry]]
*{{Note|b}}For more information refer to entry on Decla's founder [[Erich Pommer]]

==See also==
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|style=width: 600px;|* [[F. W. Murnau]]
* [[Cinema of Germany]]
* [[Film preservation]]
* [[Conservation and restoration of film]]
* [[Lists of film archives]]
* [[Lost film]]
* [[Cinematheque]]
* [[Destiny (1921 film)|''Destiny'' (1921 film)]]
* [[Metropolis (1927 film)|''Metropolis'' (1927 film)]]
* ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''
* [[Silent film]]
* [[Sound film]]
* [[Nazism and cinema]]
* [[Reichsfilmarchiv]]
* [[Antisemitism]]
* [[Racial antisemitism]]
* [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany]]
* ''[[Why We Fight]]''
* [[Berlin International Film Festival]]
}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.murnau-stiftung.de/ German homepage: Mernau Stiftung]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110929125438/http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/en/00-00-00-willkommen.html English homepage: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation September 29, 2011 archive]
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMHYNpOPuaxbgVzBAj8wm4Q/feed Official ''YouTube'' channel]
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