Kinopolis
| KINOPOLIS group
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1905 |
| Seat | Darmstadt |
| management | Gregory Theile |
| Website | www.kinopolis.de |
The Kinopolis Group ( proper spelling KINOPOLIS Group ) is one of the most traditional German cinema companies with a company history of more than 100 years . The Darmstadt- based family company mainly operates multiplex cinemas at 17 locations across Germany, making it one of the largest cinema operators in Germany.
Companies
The group of companies can look back on more than 100 years of history: Company founder August Daub opened his first cinema in 1905 in Baden-Baden. Ten years later the first film palace, the Kammer-Lichtspiele, was built in Stuttgart . In 1923, with the establishment of Palast-Lichtspiele AG, one of the largest German film theaters with more than 1,300 seats was built. Under the name Palastbetrieb Schmid & Theile GmbH , the company expanded particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, Wolfgang Theile took over the management of the company from his father Rolf Theile and developed it into one of the most successful German cinema chains. After an interim joint venture with the Australian cinema chain Hoyts and the sale of essential company components to the Kinowelt Group, the Kinopolis Group has been exclusively family-owned again since 2002. The company has been headed by Gregory Theile since 2004.
Locations
The company is primarily represented in the central and southern part of Germany. The group currently has 17 locations with a total of 137 screens and 26,297 seats. The largest locations include the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich and the branches in the Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach , Landshut and Viernheim. The majority of the cinemas belonging to the group are located in the city center, the others in close proximity to shopping centers. The individual locations vary both in terms of the number and size of the halls and in terms of the program structure. The spectrum ranges from the multiple award-winning Rex art house cinema in Darmstadt to the most popular cinema in Germany, the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich.
After the digitization of cinemas in Germany gained momentum since 2009, Kinopolis was the first German cinema chain to convert all cinemas to the new digital projection technology in 2011 in order to be able to show 3D film production as well. In 2011 the company opened a new multiplex in Hanau with 1,131 seats in eight halls. This cinema was the first of the company to project exclusively digitally since it opened.
In 2013 the company opened the group's youngest cinema in Giessen. The complex comprises nine halls with a total of 1,461 seats, one of which is the first in the group to be equipped with the new Dolby Atmos sound system. The cooperation between the cinema and the university is also remarkable: In the mornings, the TH-Mittelhessen uses three halls as lecture halls. In addition, the new studio stage of the Stadttheater Gießen , which is to replace the theater in the Löbershof, is housed in the building . In Gießen, the Rolf Theile film theater companies (also part of the Kinopolis group) also operate the cinema center, which has existed on site since 1912 and offers space for a total of 438 visitors in four halls. The Theile film theaters Heli and Roxy ceased operations shortly before the opening of the Kinopolis.
| place | Surname | Halls | Seats |
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| Aschaffenburg | Kinopolis | 7th | 1,536 |
| bad Godesberg | Kinopolis | 11 | 2,465 |
| Darmstadt | Citydome (Helia, Pali, Festival, Artistic Cinema Rex) | 12 | 1,553 |
| Kinopolis (since December 2013) | 8th | 1,874 | |
| Freiberg | Kinopolis | 5 | 905 |
| to water | Kinopolis | 9 | 1,461 |
| to water | Cinema center | 4th | 438 |
| Hanau | Kinopolis | 8th | 1,131 |
| Karlsruhe | Universe City Cinemas | 5 | 726 |
| Koblenz | Kinopolis | 14th | 1900 |
| Landshut | Kinopolis | 11 | 1,573 |
| Munich | Gloria palace | 1 | 240 |
| Mathäser Filmpalast | 14th | 4,260 | |
| Rosenheim | Kinopolis (formerly Citydome) | 8th | 1,439 |
| Sulzbach | Kinopolis Main-Taunus | 12 | 3,760 |
| Viernheim | Kinopolis Rhein-Neckar | 10 | 2,585 |
| Wetzlar | Rex cinemas | 3 | 391 |
Hostage-taking in Kinopolis Viernheim 2016
On June 23, 2016, at 2:45 p.m., a hostage-taking occurred in the foyer of the Kinopolis Rhein-Neckar in Viernheim . The perpetrator was killed during the storm by a special task force (SEK), no one else was injured. According to the police, the hostage-taking should have ended at 6 p.m. Due to the hot weather, there were very few visitors to the cinema that day. According to the police, it should have been a confused individual perpetrator. As it turned out later, the perpetrator was not armed with sharp weapons. Instead, he had a blank gun, blank gun and dummy hand grenade.
Events in the cinema
In addition to classic film screenings, the company also regularly offers special events. In addition to opera and concert broadcasts, this also includes sporting events such as the soccer world or European championships.
Companies are also given the opportunity to book cinemas and foyers for events such as company meetings, training courses, conferences, product presentations or Christmas and company parties via the company's own marketing agency CineArt.
Web links
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- ↑ Kinopolis is coming ( memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Darmstädter Echo , accessed on December 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b Kinopolis Koblenz: room information. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
- ↑ SWR.de : Kinopolis Viernheim: armed man holed up in cinema - dead on June 23, 2016
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung : rampage in the Viernheim Kinopolis from June 23, 2016
- ↑ bz-berlin.de
- ^ A b Viernheim: Gunman killed in cinema. ( Memento of June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on zdf.de , June 23, 2016. Accessed June 23, 2016.
- ↑ spiegel.de - No black arms