Stadtkino (Vienna)
The city theater is one of the oldest cinemas in Vienna . The original location was on Schwarzenbergplatz in the 3rd district of Vienna, Landstrasse , where it opened as the Schwarzenbergkino in 1916 and re-established as the Stadtkino in 1981 . In 2013 it moved to the Künstlerhaus on Karlsplatz , where it reopened on September 26th as a city cinema in the Künstlerhaus .
history
Today's Stadtkino was opened in 1916 as the Schwarzenbergkino in the basement of a Wilhelminian style building on Schwarzenbergplatz in the style of the box cinema, i.e. a cinema whose structure is based on the theater architecture and offered space for 394 visitors. The cinema, which later became the property of the Viennese cinema operating company Kiba , fell victim to the dying out of the cinema at the end of the 1970s and was closed by Kiba in 1980 - at that time under the name Kammerlichtspiele - due to continuous losses .
New establishment as a city cinema
In 1981 the cinema was bought, renovated and reopened as a city cinema on the initiative of the city's cultural department, the former Z-Bank, the city's Kiba and Franz Schwartz . The capacity was reduced to 174 visitors. From now on the cinema was supposed to close the gap between the program of the film museum and the commercial cinema program. In contrast to the film museum, it should not be aimed at a cinematic audience, but rather at average moviegoers. This today as cinema known orientation of a cinema was still not widespread and unique in Vienna.
In the 1980s, the cinema was one of the few cinemas in Austria to show international author's cinema by directors such as Jim Jarmusch , Aki Kaurismäki , Raymond Depardon , Jean-Marie Straub , Chris Marker and Jane Campion and was thus able to reach a large audience. Films by these directors such as Down by Law (Jarmusch), The Piano (Campion) or Sans soleil (Marker) are among the most popular films in cinema. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the cinema had between 48,000 and 58,000 visitors annually - around 60,000 in the best year. From the mid-1990s, however, the number of viewers declined.
In the 1990s, the Stadtkino also began to distribute films. Since 1993 the city cinema has been one of the four festival cinemas of the Viennale . The Filmhaus am Spittelberg , which opened in 1994, is also operated by the Stadtkino. The Stadtkino-Gesellschaft was taken over as a subsidiary GmbH by the Viennale association in 2001 when Kiba was dissolved and is largely financed by grants from the City of Vienna. After it became known in 2007 that Kiba will no longer assume the operating costs of the city cinema from 2009, Schwartz handed over his post as managing director to Claus Philipp on January 1, 2009 after 27 years.
Change of location to the Künstlerhaus
At the end of 2011, plans were announced to give up the cinema on Schwarzenbergplatz and to move the city cinema to the cinema in the Künstlerhaus Wien on Karlsplatz . On December 20, 2012, the two sponsoring associations, the Viennale and the Austrian Society of Fine Artists, Künstlerhaus , signed the contract, initially for 20 years, on the basis of which the “Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus” began operating at the end of September 2013. Films such as Ulrich Seidl's Paradise Trilogy ( Paradise: Love , Paradise: Faith ) and The Shine of the Day by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were shown there until the end of operations on Schwarzenbergplatz in summer 2013 . As the “Kino am Schwarzenbergplatz”, it was still in operation at the original location for the 2013 Viennale. On September 26, 2013, the city cinema in the Künstlerhaus opened with the following films: Soldate Jeannette by Daniel Hoesl , La maison de la radio by Nicolas Philibert and Harmony Lessons by Emir Baighasin (Silver Bear, Berlinale ). It has been the main venue and festival center of the Vienna Shorts short film festival since 2014 .
Film rental
The Stadtkino has also been distributing films in Austria since the 1990s, specializing in international arthouse films. The 15 to 20 films awarded annually reach between 30,000 and 80,000 visitors. The most successful film of the Stadtkino-Verleihe so far was Müller's Office (1986), a film that was not shown in the Stadtkino itself, but reached 441,000 cinema visits across Austria.
Individual evidence
- ↑ KinTheTop - III. Landstraße , artminutes - Office for Vienna Theater Research (page accessed on April 11, 2008)
- ↑ KinTheTop - Schwarzenbergkino , artminutes - Office for Vienna Theater Research (page accessed on April 11, 2008)
- ↑ a b Gertraud Steiner: Filmbook Austria. Federal Chancellery, Vienna 1997, pp. 121–122
- ↑ a b c Falter : Cinema is when the silver grain explodes. Interview by Michael Omasta and Michael Pekler with Franz Schwartz and Claus Philipp, No. 50/08, p. 26
- ↑ Wolfgang Kralicek, Klaus Nüchtern: Adventure Everyday. ( Memento of April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in Falter , No. 45/02, November 6, 2002 (page accessed on January 10, 2016)
- ↑ Der Standard : Stadtkino will definitely move to the Künstlerhaus , December 20, 2012
- ↑ Film Industry Reports June 2006 (PDF) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 27), June 2007 (PDF) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 31) and December 2007 (PDF) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 31), Österreichisches Filminstitut , distribution information according to Nielsen EDI (pages accessed on April 11, 2008)
Web links
- www.stadtkinowien.at - website of the city cinema
- Stadtkino rental in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 55 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 38" E