The Exclusive Residential Villa Area of Babelsberg and Film Studio
10.30 am
This time our tour takes us to Babelsberg, the largest and most well-known of Potsdam’s suburbs. This is where Truman, Stalin and Churchill stayed in the summer of 1945 at the time of the Potsdam Conference.
Renowned architects, such as Mies van der Rohe who also designed the National Gallery in Berlin, played a part in the design here.
We come across names such as Peter Behrens, Konrad Adenauer, Max Schmehling, Josef Göbbels and Konrad Wolf.
The history of the exclusive residential villa area is closely linked to Babelsberg as a media town. All the great Ufa and Defa stars were filmed in Babelsberg: Heinz Rühmann, Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Hildegard Knef and Marlene Dietrich. The tour explores the history of film from the time of silent movies right through to the present day. After the tour we know where the Stasi was, where the stars and other stars-to-be lived and where Stalin lived in the street formerly known as Karl Marx Strasse.
In 1911, the company Bioscop built their first – glassed – film studio in Babelsberg. Filming started as early as February 1912. In 1917 Universum Film AG (Ufa) was founded. In 1926 Ufa established a film studio large enough to produce the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. This studio was subsequently called the Marlene Dietrich Hall. A new chapter in film history began in 1929 with the construction of the first sound studio in Babelsberg.
Today Babelsberg Studio is a full-service provider which is recognised internationally and is also a proven centre of excellence for national and international film and television production.
We take a look behind the scenes together.
Tour length: 3½ to 4 hours including lunch.
50 minutes each for the journey there and back.
The park is not likely to be open from September/October onwards.
This time our tour takes us to Babelsberg, the largest and most well-known of Potsdam’s suburbs. This is where Truman, Stalin and Churchill stayed in the summer of 1945 at the time of the Potsdam Conference.
Renowned architects, such as Mies van der Rohe who also designed the National Gallery in Berlin, played a part in the design here.
We come across names such as Peter Behrens, Konrad Adenauer, Max Schmehling, Josef Göbbels and Konrad Wolf.
The history of the exclusive residential villa area is closely linked to Babelsberg as a media town. All the great Ufa and Defa stars were filmed in Babelsberg: Heinz Rühmann, Hans Albers, Brigitte Horney, Hildegard Knef and Marlene Dietrich. The tour explores the history of film from the time of silent movies right through to the present day. After the tour we know where the Stasi was, where the stars and other stars-to-be lived and where Stalin lived in the street formerly known as Karl Marx Strasse.
In 1911, the company Bioscop built their first – glassed – film studio in Babelsberg. Filming started as early as February 1912. In 1917 Universum Film AG (Ufa) was founded. In 1926 Ufa established a film studio large enough to produce the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. This studio was subsequently called the Marlene Dietrich Hall. A new chapter in film history began in 1929 with the construction of the first sound studio in Babelsberg.
Today Babelsberg Studio is a full-service provider which is recognised internationally and is also a proven centre of excellence for national and international film and television production.
We take a look behind the scenes together.
Tour length: 3½ to 4 hours including lunch.
50 minutes each for the journey there and back.
The park is not likely to be open from September/October onwards.