City Kino Wedding

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Screening room of the City Kino Wedding for the premiere of the film Animals (2017)

The City Kino Wedding is an art house cinema on the complex of the Center Français de Berlin at Müllerstraße  74. The large building complex is a listed building and until 1992 served as a cultural center for the French occupying forces. The cinema, which has not been used since 2007, was reopened as a cinema on September 13, 2014 as a result of a business idea.

history

The cinema at the Center Français de Berlin was a multicultural facility that was used for cultural events, theatrical performances and film screenings. Free film screenings for a German audience were also regularly held here. After the withdrawal of the French troops, the Center Français de Berlin was rebuilt and reopened in 1994. Then from 1996 to 2007 it served as City Wedding with a focus on family films and art house , and Bollywood films that were shown occasionally found their regular audience. After that the cinema was closed for the time being. For a short time in 2009 the CFB opened again under the name Eiffel Tower Cinema . The operator of the center had the cinema hall renovated and used again as a cultural venue. On a web page listed closed Berlin cinemas the trained found movie theater - manager Anne Lake Mountain pointing out that management was looking for. After an on-site visit, she and Wiebke Wolter decided to apply.

Both women took care of a reopening, which took place on September 13, 2014 under the motto “Kiezkultur reloaded”. The new cultural facility was named City Kino Wedding . Initially, in a kind of test phase, selected films were regularly shown at low prices every two weeks until the end of 2014. Since January 2015, the cinema has been showing a selected Arthouse program every week from Thursday to Sunday .

City Kino Wedding for the Berlinale 2017

As part of the Berlinale Goes Kiez series , the City Kino was used as a Berlinale cinema in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and was awarded the cinema program awards from the Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in 2016 and 2017 .

In order to secure the number of visitors necessary for the preservation, Anne Lakeberg mainly organizes a colorful, selected film program, less focused on the latest films. Together with the restaurant there are also culinary film evenings . Smaller German film producers receive start-up help from them by holding world premieres. In addition to participating in the Berlinale, the Jewish Film Festival and the Arab Film Festival are also making a stop at the City Kino Wedding. The Favorite Films Festival takes place exclusively here, where the audience's favorites from international film festivals are shown. Wiebke Wolter left the facility in August 2019, so that Anne Lakeberg has been the sole operator ever since. She is supported by four part-time employees who take on ticket sales and other auxiliary work.

description

The cinema on the upper floor of the rear building has 218 seats, which is relatively large for a arthouse cinema. The equipment also includes a 35 mm projector, which is currently not in use, instead a digital projector was purchased with financial support.

The staircase to the screening room and the foyer are laid out with natural marble slabs, the ceiling is made up of colorful glass squares that are backlit. In the front building of the building complex there is a French restaurant and a hotel.

Web links

Commons : City Kino Wedding  - Collection of pictures

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LDL Berlin: Center Culturel Français
  2. ↑ a b City Kino: “Wedding needs another cinema!” In: weddingweiser.de. Weddingweiser, September 10, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Film enthusiasts want to revitalize City Kino Wedding . In: berliner-woche.de . ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b c Dominique Hensel: Hollywedding , in: Berliner Zeitung , September 26, 2019, p. 3 (print edition)
  5. ↑ quiez.de: A cinema wakes up from its slumber .
  6. ↑ City Kino Wedding at berlin.de .
  7. ↑ Media Board Award Winner 2016. Accessed June 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Prize Winner Cinema Program Award Medienboard 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on June 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.media20.filmbiznews.de
  9. ↑ Winner of the BKM Cinema Program Award 2016. Accessed on June 23, 2017 .
  10. ↑ City Kino: Two years of art house cinema in Wedding. In: weddingweiser.de. Weddingweiser, September 22, 2016, accessed on March 18, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 30.2 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 21.6"  E