Schauburg (Karlsruhe)

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The entrance facade of the cinema to Marienstraße. The actual hall building is set back in the interior of the street block.

The Schauburg is a cinema in the southern part of Karlsruhe .

The Schauburg opened in 1929 in the rooms of the former Apollo Varietétheater on Marienstraße, in which movies had been shown since 1906. The renovation resulted in the first real open-plan cinema in Karlsruhe with 600 seats. After the complete destruction in the Second World War , the cinema was rebuilt in 1949 in the same place for up to 1000 visitors. A 25-meter-long foyer was built between the cinema hall located inside the street block and the entrance building on Marienstraße. After further renovations, the Schauburg now has three halls with 350, 150 and 61 seats. The great hall (Cinerama) has a curved, 17 × 7 meter large Cinerama screen and is one of the few cinemas in which films are shown using Todd-AO technology. In 2015, the Schauburg was the only cinema in Baden-Württemberg and one of ten in Germany able to show Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful 8 in the original 70 mm roadshow version. The stairwell of the cinema with a curved, counter-rotating staircase from the 1950s is a listed building.

The cinema operators have received several awards for their culturally high-quality programming, for example in 2007 with the top prize for an outstanding annual film program from MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg and in 2012 with the main prize for the best annual film program from the German State Minister for Culture . In the program there are many films in the original language version. A sneak preview runs twice a week , in German on Mondays and in English on Wednesdays. The Schauburg is a member of the working group Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater .

The Todd-AO 70mm Festival has been held here every year since 2005 . The cinema has been the venue for the Independent Days film festival since 2007 . In summer the Schauburg organizes open-air cinema nights at Gottesaue Castle .

literature

  • Gerhard Bechtold: Cinema: Locations in the city: a cultural history of the cinema in Karlsruhe . From Loeper, Karlsruhe 1987, ISBN 3886527514

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtchronik Karlsruhe - The years 1920 to 1929 , accessed on July 26, 2014
  2. ↑ Karlsruhe cinema shows The Hateful 8
  3. ↑ Schauburg Kino in the database of cultural monuments of the city of Karlsruhe, accessed on March 14, 2013
  4. ↑ Schauburg honored for an outstanding program , Blickpunkt: Film from November 6, 2007
  5. ↑ BKM-Filmförderung - Cinema program and distribution awards 2012 , accessed on July 26, 2014
  6. ↑ Todd-AO 70mm Festival on in70mm.com
  7. ^ Website of the Independent Days

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 11.5 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 28.5"  E