ACUD
The ACUD is an art and culture center in Berlin-Mitte .
The building at Veteranenstrasse 21 houses a theater , a concert hall , an art gallery , two cinemas , a bar and numerous studios . It started as a cultural institution in 1991.
history
The ACUD emerged from the art gallery of the same name, founded in 1990, which opened in two apartments in the then run-down and vacant house at Rykestrasse 13 in the Prenzlauer Berg district . The non-profit ACUD eV emerged from the collaboration with other projects
As a result of a round table with the housing company Mitte WBM, the Berlin-Mitte district office and various groups and associations, the ACUD eV was able to choose one of 50 vacant residential buildings to continue its activities in 1991. The choice fell on the house at Veteranenstrasse 21, where the projects that still exist today were created.
After difficult negotiations with the heirs of the previous owners. a. was about the consequences of the so-called "Aryanization" of Jewish property during the Nazi era, the house was redistributed with the support of the Foundation! Bought for a world based on solidarity . Following extensive, repeatedly delayed renovation work the ACUD could its various event areas reopen, namely in 2004, initially in the yard (Cinema 1 cinema , session Café, Club, Gallery), in September 2006, also in the front building (cantina, Cinema 2, Theater ).
The managing director of the association was the former civil rights activist and former member of the Bundestag Jutta Braband .
In 2010, the ACUD was due to the insolvency of the association under receivership asked. After several failed attempts to find an investor, the house was saved from foreclosure at the beginning of 2014 with the help of a loan from the GLS Bank and the continuation of the cultural business was secured in the long term. The former session café, club and gallery were reopened with a new program in summer 2014 under the name ACUD MACHT NEW .
The ACUD is the only larger, still existing culture house, which was built at the time of the turn of 1990.
In 2016, the organizers of the Berlinale selected the ACUDkino for participation for the first time.
Program
The ACUD is an open art and event house with cinemas, theater, club, gallery, studio, bar and studios. The units work partly independently of each other, but always come together to create cross-genre projects and festivals. The ACUD is a central location in Berlin for experimental and unusual formats beyond conventional categories. The program is a mixture of own productions and projects that are brought to the house from the outside and realized together.
literature
- Christoph Links, Sybille Nitsche, Antje Taffelt: The wonderful year of anarchy: on the power of civil disobedience 1989/90 . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-333-2 , p. 49 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- www.acud.de
- Acud in kinokompendium.de
- Claudia Wasow-Kania, interview on the founding of the ACUD as a gallery project on New Year's Eve 1989/90. at youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karin Schmidl, Elmar Schütze: When the cinema next door rolls out the red carpet. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 8, 2016, p. 12.
- ↑ Redistribute the Foundation's website
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 3.2 ″ E