Questions for Stefan Droessler

[Johnny Dale]

How about coming up with a list of questions for the Curator of the Munich Museum.
We could ask Jeff to send them to him and ask for his reply.
Example: In L.A. this weekend, he said that he was unaware of any new initiatives on Chimes.
So, what else, would we like to ask the Maven from Munich?

[blunted by community]

when is the show coming to florida?

[Sir Bygber Brown]

Merchant of Venice update! Ask whether its possible for anything to be done, and whether anyone has considered it.

Other Side of the Wind updates, which are always welcome.

But i thought we decided Droessler wasn't in on any insider Welles news...

[maxrael]

Is the plan ultimately once the various restoration projects are completed to release them to the public via DVD?

[maxrael]

Are Stefan Droessler or his team aware of Wellesnet? Would he be up for doing some kind of live webchat?

[maxrael]

Are there plans for the Munich Filmmuseum to have an English-language website where Welles fans can check the latest status of all the various restoration projects?

[maxrael]

At the London showing of Welles rarities Stefan indicated The Deep restoration project should be completed in 2005. Can he tell us any more about this such as is it still on schedule and whether the footage will be presented as a documentary or a complete feature?

[maxrael]

for Sir Bygber,

Stefan, at the London showing of Welles Rarities you indicated there was currently hope of being able to recover the missing two reels of Merchant Of Venice that you couldn't really talk about in any detail... is there any news on this?

[Oscar Christie]

Is there a fund for Americans who want to donate to the Welles Collection?
In the U.S. a charitable arm of a foreign museum would be called, "The Friends of the Welles Collection at the Munich Museum".
Such a fund is referred to as a 501{c}3 and allows the donor to get a tax deduction.

[Sir Bygber Brown]

yes yes - ask for an update on Merchant just like maxrael worded it.

[stefan]

Back in Germany I read your questions. Most of them are answered in the meantime, to some ideas like the fund for donations we will return when a concrete project like THE DEEP or MERCHANT OF VENICE will go on...

I liked to see the audiences in L.A. and New York responding to the programs, and I got very helpful and revealing informations by meeting Jonathan Lynn, Mike Caveney, Lawrence French, James Toback and Christopher Welles - beside the usual talks with Oja, Gary Graver and Bill Krohn. I didn't like so much to talk to some anonymous visitors in a quite personal way and to find me some hours later wrongly quoted in a wellesnet entry...

There are a lot of speculations and presumptions concerning Welles, and my interest is always to go to the roots, to people who were very close to Welles or to the remaining material itself. You can contact me at the Filmmuseum with concrete questions concerning our material and the projects in which we are involved.

The Unknown Orson Welles booklet is available via amazon.de for Euro 14.00. We charged more at the U.S. screenings because of the shipping and customs expenses (as far as I know amazon.de charges for oversea shipping at least additional Euro 13.00).

Filmmuseum Muenchen is always interested in getting film material, tapes, pictures, screenplays, articles, letters, notes, paintings and sketches by Orson Welles to complete its collection.

stefan d.

[maxrael]

Hi Stefan,

Good to see you here!!

Is there any news on the possible recovery of The Merchant Of Venice soundtrack?

best wishes to you and your team,
max

[blunted by community]

stefan, i have an oversized welles collection with many odds and ends. would be glad to contribute anything the collection is missing. where do i send my not yet composed list when i compose it?