Kino Klein
The cinema Klein was founded in 1905 in Vienna Prater by Theresa Klein opened, making it the first free-standing movie theaters counted Vienna. It existed until 1945 when it was destroyed under Allied bombardment.
history
Before the cinema opened in 1905, the electric "Reinprechtsche Giant Swing", a popular Prater attraction, and the Wursteltheater - also known as the "Praterwurstel" - were operated at Praterhütte No. 40. This was a showroom for theatrical, but above all for shows of abnormalities such as the “woman without abdomen”, the “strongest chain sprinkler” or “the smallest person of all time”.
In 1900 the giant swing was replaced by an "automobile caroussel" and mutoscopes were set up. In 1905 “Living Pictures - Singing Whistling” was shown for the first time in combination with a phonograph . Only a little later, in the same year, a spacious new building finally replaced the previous booth with the exception of the “Wursteltheater”. The new building has a baroque ornate facade and two small onion domes on the street-side corners.
The cinema quickly made a name for itself, as the import of foreign productions began early on. Theresia Klein had "new and interesting things to see every week through her contracts with the first Parisian suppliers", the Illustrierte Wiener Extrablatt stated with praise on March 23, 1908 .
In 1924 the cinema was renamed “Krystall Kino”. Western and crime films were shown until the early 1930s . As the last of the Vienna Prater cinemas, sound films were not shown until 1933. In the course of the conversion to sound films, the name was also changed: The cinema was now called “Crystal Palace” and offered space for around 510 visitors. Like all Prater cinemas - with the exception of the comedy theater - the “Kristall Kino” (the spelling - “i” instead of “y” - was once changed) was destroyed in the Allied bombing raids in 1945 and not rebuilt. Today, at the site of the Prater's most popular cinema at times, the “Prateruhr” is located at the entrance to the Prater.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 59.1 ″ E