Koki cinema
The Koki cinema is a Lübeck cinema .
Since September 1979, regular film screenings have been held by the Film-AG, founded in July of the same year , in the center's multi-purpose hall at Mengstrasse 35, a facility of the youth welfare office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . From the beginning, the aim was to show films outside the mainstream , including old film classics as well as new productions or foreign original versions.
In the early years of cinema operations was film AG from temporary embossed and improvisation: the demonstrations were initially with one, then two 16-mm - projectors instead and the hall had to be specially equipped with chairs for any event. At the beginning of 1991 it became possible to use the center's own funds , funds from the Haus der Jugend Foundation and volunteer supporters to convert the premises into a fully equipped permanent cinema. Used 35mm - Ernemann projectors could with screen and curtains from a recently abandoned cinema in Hunsrück be acquired, the theater seats came from a defunct movie theater in Neustadt in Holstein . On April 13, 1991, the new cinema was inaugurated under the name Kino im Zentrum .
The city of Lübeck closed the center at the end of June 1994, but the cinema remained and was subordinated to the then Office for Culture (now the Art and Culture Department). It resumed operations in September 1994 under the new name of the Lübeck Municipal Cinema .
At the beginning of 2002 the city intended to close the municipal cinema, but did not implement this decision after protests broke out. To support the cinema work, the Association for the Promotion of Municipal Cinema was founded in August 2002 , which took over the film theater entirely from the city on August 1, 2007 and has been running it independently since then as Kino Koki .
The Lübeck Municipal Cinema has received several awards for its film program.
literature
- Youth Welfare Office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.): 10 years Media Center Lübeck, Mengstrasse 35 . Children and Youth Culture House Röhre, 1999
- Jens Thiele / Bernd Poch: Searching for Traces: Film and Cinema in the Region . Library and information system of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 1993
- Lübecker Stadtzeitung, August 24, 1999: Festival program: Five years of municipal cinema
Web links
- Website of the Koki cinema
- infomedia-sh.de : 10 years of municipal cinema in Lübeck, 25 years of municipal film work in Lübeck - a look back
- Lübecker Stadtzeitung, August 24, 1999 : Festival program: Five years of municipal cinema