Das Nosferatu-Fenster / The Nosferatu Window

Many of the scenes from the horror classic “Nosferatu” by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, which celebrates its 100^th anniversary this year, were shot in the early 1920s in northern Germany. Among the filming locations was Lübeck, with actors from the city’s municipal theatre playing parts in the silent flick about the count from Transylvania. Year after year, film fans make the pilgrimage to the historic salt storage building on the Obertrave, where Nosferatu took up residence to watch his next victim. The close-up of the vampire in the window is legendary. To close out the anniversary year, the Nordische Filmtage Lübeck has created a public installation that makes one of the most famous scenes in film history palpable at the very spot where it was filmed.

From Friday, Oct. 28 through Sunday Nov. 6, every day after dark.

Lübecker Salzspeicher, An der Obertrave / Holstenstrasse, directly adjacent to Holsten Gate.

Concept and realisation: Hank Irwin Kittel

 With the support of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, Heick & Schmaltz GmbH, and the Lübeck municipal cultural office.