Breitenseer Lichtspiele

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The Breitenseer Lichtspiele 2011
Breitenseer Lichtspiele cinema hall

The Breitenseer Lichtspiele , also called Breitenseer Kino, are a shop cinema in the Breitensee district in Vienna's 14th district of Penzing . It is one of the oldest cinemas in the world that is still in use.

background

In 1905 the cinema was founded as a tent cinema near its current location on Breitenseer Straße in Vienna. The cinema moved to its current location as early as 1909. The Breitenseer Lichtspiele are a typical shop cinema, built into a Wilhelminian-style corner house. In its heyday, the cinema had numerous regulars - including the Viennese dialect poet HC Artmann . Back then the regular guests always had their own reserved seat.

The cinema is an art house cinema that only plays Austrian and European films. In addition to the evening screenings of films, a children's program also runs several times a week. In addition, there are regular silent film screenings, which are sometimes accompanied by text or music. For this occasion there is still a functioning piano in the Breitenseer Lichtspiele.

The owner of the cinema is the retired AHS teacher Anna Nitsch-Fitz. According to Nitsch-Fitz, it is only possible through the choice of program to run such an old cinema with today's competition, both through television and through the big cinemas. Above all, she is proud of the old film projector , which still works today.

The “Strickfilm” campaign has been running since April 2013. During these special screenings, which take place every 6 weeks, the lighting in the cinema is only dimmed a little so that the audience has enough light to knit . The idea for this came from Susanne Kristek, founder of the 1st Viennese knitting club. The series of "Strickfilme" started with the Austrian production Zweisitzrakete .

The cinema has had economic problems for years. A closure in June 2017 could be averted.

See also

Web links

Commons : Breitenseer Lichtspiele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laudatory speech for the Burgkino on Die Standard .at (accessed on June 27, 2011)
  2. ↑ District Museum 14 shows "100 Years of Cinema in Penzing" on wien.at (accessed on June 27, 2011)
  3. ↑ Breitenseer Lichtspiele: The oldest cinema in the world? . Article dated October 18, 2011, accessed August 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Sabine Karrer: Knitting in the two-seat rocket. Wiener Zeitung, April 12, 2013, accessed on March 17, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Anna-Maria Bauer: The light stays on: knitters are conquering the cinema. Courier, January 30, 2014, accessed March 17, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Call for the rescue of the Breitenseer Lichtspiele ( memento of January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 3.9 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 33.9"  E