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Slottsbiograph in September 2011

Slottsbiografen (lit. "Castle Cinema ") in Uppsala is one of the oldest surviving cinemas in Sweden . It was built between 1914 and 1915 by Upsala Fabriks- och Handtverksförening . It was originally intended to serve both as a cinema and as a meeting and exhibition space for the association; today it is a arthouse cinema .

history

Films have been shown in Uppsala since 1897. Cinemas were integrated into existing buildings and establishments; For example, the Scala cinema was set up in the Rullan restaurant and films were also shown in the Lilla teatern on Kungsgatan. Other cinemas at the time were Fyrisbiographs near the main building of Uppsala University on Sankt Olofsgatan and Edda-biographers at the indoor swimming pool in Svartbäcken. At the Grindstugan outside of town there was the Palladium.

The Uppsalabiografen cinema was previously located on the site of today's Slottsbiografen, in a small wooden house that was demolished when the Upsala Fabriks- och Hantverksförening erected its building on the square. The Uppsalabiograph was relocated to Littorinska handelsträdgården on Västra Ågatan near Nybron.

The driving force behind the construction of the building were the club chairmen: the jeweler Karl Gustaf Markström, the architect Viktor Holmgren and the builder Simon Lindsjö. While Slottsbiografen was opened on October 26, 1914, the entire building was only opened three months later on January 19, 1915. The building had space for 300 visitors.

The rooms were designed by Gusten Widerbäck , among others . The cinema was initially headed by Hugo Plengiér, who had also taken over the management of the Fyrisbiograph a short time before. The first film to be shown was Stormfågeln by Mauritz Stiller on October 26, 1914, with Lili Beck and Richard Lund in the lead roles.

In the 1920s, Slottsbiografen received competition from two newly opened cinemas in Uppsala, Regina (later Skandia) and Röda Kvarn (later Centrum). From the beginning, the cinema premises were also used in other functions, e.g. B. for a handicraft exhibition in the province of Uppsala in 1915. In the 1920s, the cinema was rebuilt and adapted more to film screenings, so that from then on the hall was only used for this. The first showing of a sound film in Uppsala took place on November 15, 1929 in the Slottsbiografen with the film Fox Movietone Follies . In 1937 Slottsbiografen was rebuilt and modernized again in order to withstand competition from the Röda Kvarn cinema, which was renovated in 1936.

Slottsbiograph was the cinema in which the director Ingmar Bergman saw his first films. His grandmother lived on Trädgårdsgatan near the cinema and regularly took him to film screenings.

In the 1980s, however, the competition from other cinemas in the city grew so that Slottsbiografen was closed in 1991. After extensive renovation, the cinema was reopened in 1996 and has been used for all kinds of cultural events ever since. The cinema has been under monument protection as Byggnadsminne since 1994 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dan Thunman: Slottsbiografen i nygammal skepnad . In: Årsboken Uppland . 1995.
  2. ↑ a b Intro of the Slottsbiograph's official website. Retrieved November 5, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Byggnadsminnen enligt Länsstyrelsen i Uppsala län ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 59 ° 51 '21.9 "  N , 17 ° 38' 5.3"  E