Event

The HfG Archive / Museum Ulm presents a selection of films made at the Institute for Film Design at the Ulm University of Art and Design. The occasion is the handover of the work archive of HfG graduate Günther Hörmann.
The exhibition focuses on six films and accompanying material, and provides an initial insight into the work of this department at the legendary university.
In 1962, the HfG Ulm established the Film Department as the fifth of the four departments it had previously had. Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz headed this department together with Detten Schleiermacher.
In terms of cinematic aesthetics and content, the initiators were guided by the "Oberhausen Manifesto", which they had co-signed in 1962. The most important film aesthetic innovations of this department were the parameter theory of the camera and the miniature principle.
In 1965, the film department became independent of the HfG Ul,m as the Institut für Filmgestaltung Ulm e.V. and therefore survived the self-dissolution of the HfG in 1968. The institute was closed in 2016.
About the film selection: The exhibition presents a selection of documentary films by Günther Hörmann and other members of staff. These include the film about the political events in Berlin in June 1967 entitled "Ruhestörung - Ereignisse in Berlin 1967" (1968). Hörmann repeatedly dealt with the labor movement, for example in "Die Vulkanwerft im Metallerstreik" (1974) and again in "Der Untergang der AG Weser" (1984).

Duration: 5.12.2025-17.05.2026
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission: 5 euros regular / 4 euros reduced. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 and for students of the University of Ulm, TH Ulm and HS Neu-Ulm.