Leokino cinematograph

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Entrance to the cinematograph in Museumstrasse
Leokino on Anichstrasse

The Leokino and the Cinematograph are two cinemas in Innsbruck . They are operated by the Otto Preminger Institute, OPI, Association for Audiovisual Media Design in Innsbruck. These are the two most important venues for alternative cinema outside the mainstream in western Austria .

history

Otto Preminger Institute and Cinematograph

The Otto Preminger Institute , named after the exiled Austrian Hollywood director Otto Preminger (1905–1986), was founded in 1972 by students at the University of Innsbruck . Between 1972 and 1984 changing locations, including the Olympic cinema in the Höttinger Au , then a hall on the Innrain until it was officially closed in 1980, were used. As a result, a backyard building in Schöpfstrasse in the Wilten district was converted into a cinema with around 48 seats, which went into operation in 1981. In 1984 the current venue, Museumstrasse, was opened near the main train station.

1989 was film distribution of Otto Preminger Institute founded. From 1992–1995 the Cinematograph cinema became the venue for the America Film Festival , which was brought into being in the wake of the international celebrations for the " Columbus Year " in 1992, the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by Europeans. The America Film Festival was intended to bring unknown, especially Latin American, films closer to the Innsbruck and Tyrolean cinema audiences. In 1995 it was renamed the Innsbruck International Film Festival . A large part of the Diagonale program , the most important Austrian film festival apart from the Viennale , has been shown annually in the Cinematograph since 1994 .

The Leokino

In 1998/1999 the Leokino in the western city center was adapted with two halls and has since been operated by the Otto Preminger Institute . The roots of the Leokino go back to the beginnings of the Catholic labor movement in Tyrol at the turn of the 20th century. It was initially a club hall opened in 1901 for the various sections of the Catholic workers' association for Innsbruck, KAVI. This was after Pope Leo XIII. named who laid the foundations for modern Catholic social teaching with the social encyclical . After Austria was annexed to the German Empire, the assets of the KAVI were confiscated, including the Leosaal. After 1945 the property, which had been badly damaged by aerial bombs and looters, was returned to the KAVI after negotiations. The idea came up to turn the club hall into a cinema. This was opened in 1956 and operated by KAVI with 458 seats. In 1978 it was leased by the operator of the Metropolkino, one of the largest cinemas in Innsbruck. In 1998/1999 the cinema was restored and adapted to modern cinema operations.

Regular publications

The Otto Preminger Institute has been publishing a monthly program newspaper since 1974 to provide information about current film events. This was published between 1974 and 1994 under the name Cinematographisches Calendarium as a black-and-white leaflet, usually with a length of 5 to 10 pages. In 1995 the title of the magazine was renamed Cinematograph . The issue was published under this title from numbers 1/1995 to 5/1999. With the reopening of the Leokino, the name changed again to Leokino Cinematograph . From this number the magazine was published in two colors.

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