Cinematic Theater Casino
The Filmkunsttheater Casino was a cinema in downtown Leipzig . It was located at Neumarkt 21-27, corner of Kupfergasse, on the ground floor of the “ Dresdner Hof ” exhibition center . It had 496 seats and was one of the venues for the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week .
The cinematic art theater Casino was founded in the late 1950s. There, among other things, films were shown that did not generate any sales for the district film directorate at the box office and that were not shown in the usual programs of other cinemas in the GDR . Works of international film art were shown, such as The American Friend , Dwarfs Started Small too, and Ginger and Fred, as well as little-shown DEFA films such as Sun Seekers . Retrospectives with works by well-known filmmakers were held regularly .
In 1962, the GDR State Film Archive set up the first venue for the so-called “camera film program”, which was supposed to be based on the proletarian popular film movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1968 the casino became an additional gaming facility outside of Berlin.
Public screenings of films from the archive and GDR premieres of international films took place as part of the “Camera Film Program” of the State Film Archive. So z. B. 1981 Nazarín by Luis Buñuel and 1985 Lesson in Love by Ingmar Bergman as original with spoken translation. It ran Metropolis , The Nibelungen , Un Chien Andalou , as well as King Kong , Frankenstein , UFA films and classic genre cinema. Country or themed programs were also shown, including films by Antonioni , Kurosawa , Bergman, New British Cinema , as well as Fassbinder and Werner Herzog . Fred Gehler helped design the program as an artistic collaborator and gave an introduction before the demonstrations.
The other pillar of the program has been the student film club of the University of Leipzig since 1963, which procured films through connections and cooperation with the Hungarian, Polish or Czech cultural institutes. Discussions and film talks with filmmakers took place in the “Casino Club”. Together with the "Filmclub Leipzig", the Filmkunsttheater Casino organized the "Leipziger Filmliteraturmesse" (Leipzig Film Literature Fair) from 1971, with opportunities to exchange and trade programs, film posters, magazines and photos.
In 1993 the cinematic art theater Casino was closed. One reason was the building owner's increased rent demand.
literature
- Walter Fellmann , Karl Czok : City Guide Atlas. Leipzig. 3. Edition. Tourist, Berlin / Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00259-5 , p. 170.
- Lutz Dammbeck : Obsessed with Pop. Schulenburg, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-765-1 , pp. 25-27 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Bernd Reiher: In the cinema a film from the cinema. Filmkunsttheater Casino at the Open Monument Day at UT Connewitz ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on l-iz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the Filmkunsttheater Casino on secrettipp-leipzig.de (with picture)
- ↑ a b c Lutz Dammbeck: Obsessed with Pop. Schulenburg, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-765-1 , p. 25 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Film cycle on archiv.uni-leipzig.de (PDF; 4.49 MB)
- ↑ Nazarín on deutsche-kinemathek.de (PDF; 215 kB) ( Memento from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ En lection i kärlek (PDF; 279 kB) ( Memento from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lutz Dammbeck: Obsessed with Pop. Schulenburg, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89401-765-1 , p. 26 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Tausihbörse , New Germany . September 12, 1987
- ^ Ice Age ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 17.9 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 34.7" E