Comedy cinema
The Lustspielkino was a cinema founded in 1927 in the entertainment section of Vienna's Prater , the Wurstelprater . Before that, from 1845 onwards it was run under different names as a theater and Volksbühne , including the Fürst-Theater , which was one of the most popular popular theaters in Vienna in the 1870s.
Time as a theater and Volksbühne
In the place of the cinema there was the Schreyersche Affentheater from 1845 . 1862 who took folk singer Johann Prince the site and built the Prince Theater, which in the 1870s the most popular people's theaters was one of Vienna and in which a petty-bourgeois counter- genre to the great Viennese operetta was at home. Popular folk singers such as Josef Matras performed there.
In place of the simple singspielhalle , Johann Fürst later built a decently decorated, elegant theater. In 1892 the theater was taken over by Heinrich Jantsch and renamed the Jantsch-Theater in accordance with Viennese custom . Jantsch had the building rebuilt in the neo-baroque style around 1905 to give it an even more magnificent appearance - although the theater still served the lower to middle class as an audience. At the same time he renamed the theater comedy theater. Josef Jarno succeeded him in the same year as owner and operator.
Time as a cinema
In 1927 the building was converted into a cinema and renamed the comedy cinema. It initially held 566 visitors. On a map from 1932, however, seats for 1,062 visitors are already shown, making it one of the largest cinemas in the city.
In late 1929 it counted next fleet , castle , Apollo - and Ufa Tonkino the first cinemas in Vienna that their investments in the sound film had changed. In 1938 the cinema was renamed "Film-Palast". During the Nazi regime , a Mr. Doblhofer ran the Filmpalast. He was reported to the Gestapo in 1941 and probably deported.
In 1981 the cinema, which was still called Tegethoff Kino and finally Filmpalast , burned down completely and was not rebuilt. It was the last remaining Prater cinema. All the others were destroyed in the Allied air raids on Vienna in 1945.