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12/02/09
Exhibition Commemorates 100th Birthday of UFA-Star Sybille Schmitz
Fassbinder’s film VERONIKA VOSS as memorial
On December 2, the German film diva Sybille Schmitz would have been 100 years old. But her life came to an end more than half a century ago; she ended her own life on April 13, 1955 at the young age of 45. Her tragic story inspired Fassbinder’s movie VERONIKA VOSS (1981). Thanks to his empathetic film adaptation, her memory is kept alive. In 1982, RWF received the Berlinale’s Golden Bear for the film as an appreciation for his work.
Berlin’s movie theater Babylon Mitte inaugurates the exhibition The lost – The Ufa-Star Sybille Schmitz on Sunday, December 6, 2009. The Sybille-Schmitz-Archive, painstakingly assembled by the collector Ulrich Potthoff, lent numerous photographs, posters, and other documents. The opening reception will be held at 4PM in the foyer. At 5PM, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s film VAMPYR (1932) will be screened; it features Sybille Schmitz as Léone.
Fore more information about the Sybille-Schmitz-Archiv look here.
KINO BABYLON
Photograph on the left: Rosel Zech as Veronika Voss, 1981 © RWFF
Photograph on the right: © 2009 Sybille-Schmitz-Archiv
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