Kerstmatinée Stille Sneeuw

• 26 December 2026
  • 15:00

Come and enjoy film and live music between the historic wings with a kerststol and a glass of glühwein and take a romantic journey back in time. Stille Sneeuw is a performance full of antique Christmas films with lots of snow and ice, humour and drama, toys and delicious food.

To get into the mood, we start with winter magic lantern slides from 1880. Then we drift away with ‘A dream of Toyland’ made in England in 1907 by Arthur Melbourne Cooper, the very first puppet animator in the world and inventor of the Stop-Motion technique. It will be spooky with the very first film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story ‘A Christmas Carol’ from 1910, live accompanied by a ghost piano.

We set sail with Roald Amundsen (1911), Robert Falcon Scott (1913) and Ernest Shackleton (1914) and travel along on their heroic expeditions to the South Pole, only to then celebrate Christmas with the insects of Wladyslaw Starewicz (Moscow 1913). Finally, it will be time to feast on delicious shoe soles and roast Christmas chickens in ‘The Gold Rush’ by Chaplin (1925).