Gloriette cinema
The Gloriette Kino was a cinema in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .
history
The Gloriette Kino opened shortly before the First World War in a former tavern in a corner house built in 1911 with the address Linzer Straße 2. The cinema within sight of Schönbrunn Palace had three halls with a total of 176 seats. In the 1920s and 1930s it was leased and managed by Siegfried Lemberger , who among other things produced the film Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld .
In the 1950s there was a redesign of the premises, which hardly changed afterwards until it was closed. At that time it was also called "the blood opera" because of its focus on American westerns and crime novels. With the takeover of the cinema by the Bespalez family (from 1966), who ran it until the end, the Gloriette established itself as a children's and family cinema. Selected art-house films were only shown in the last few years before the closure in order to counteract the acute decline in audiences (see also Austrian cinema history since 1970 ). The neighboring former candy store was rented for this purpose and connected to the cinema as a "Kino Treff". At the beginning of 2013, the operation, which had not been profitable for a long time, was finally closed; a technical upgrade to current standards would have been too expensive. After a few years of vacancy, a bicycle repair shop and a catering establishment moved into the ground floor of the representative corner house on the corner of John and Linzer Strasse.
Web links
- Article from June 8, 2012 in the Wiener Zeitung
- Article "The Gloriette-Kino is about to close" on Stadtbekannt.at (2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to this source , the cinema did not open until the late 1920s.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 58.2 ″ E