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The Tilsiter Lichtspiele 2012

The Tilsit light games are a 1908 founded cinema in Berlin district of Friedrichshain .

The cinema has two small cinemas with 66 and 26 seats as well as an attached pub, which is available as a restaurant in addition to the regular cinema operation. The Tilsiter Lichtspiele have their own microbrewery , the Brewery Future , which is located at the ZUKUNFT venue on Ostkreuz .

history

The Tilsiter Lichtspiele 2013

The Tilsiter Lichtspiele was opened in 1908 on Tilsiter Strasse (renamed Richard-Sorge-Strasse in 1969 ) in a tenement house built around the turn of the century at number 25A. The name of the cinema is derived from the former street name.

A historical photo from 1938, which also served as a template for the design of the menu in the cinema bar, shows the entire staff of the cinema posing in front of the cinema as well as the outdoor advertising for the films currently being shown in the cinema "Shots in Booth 7" (Director: Carl Boese, D 1938) and "Grossalarm" (Director: Georg Jacoby, D 1938). One of the people in the photo was the cashier at the time, who was still living in the house opposite when it opened in 1994. This photo also served as the cover for the locally distributed Friedrichshain history calendar 2008 of the Friedrichshain history association Hans Kohlhase eV

In 1961 , the Kosmos cinema opened not far from Tilsiter Strasse, in Karl-Marx-Allee , with over 1,000 seats. Shortly beforehand, the Tilsiter Lichtspiele were closed. In 1994, after a 33-year break, three filmmakers renovated and reopened the cinema after the empty cinema was initially used as a film studio for 3 years.

According to the operator, the cinema machines were dismantled at the beginning of the 1960s and taken by a film and cinema enthusiast Soviet officer on his return to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in order to set up a cinema in the city of Sovetsk , formerly Tilsit.

In 2008 the cinema celebrated its centenary. In September 2008 it became publicly known that the continued operation of the Tilsiter Lichtspiele is at risk due to increased rent claims. Since then, no further news has been announced.

21 years after the reopening of the Tilsiter Lichtspiele, a second cinema hall with 26 seats was opened on March 1st, 2015. Regular cinema operations began on March 5, 2015. Since May 2017, the second cinema hall, the DokFilmKino, has been used exclusively for documentary films.

program

Children's cinema 2010

As is typical for an art house cinema, the film program of the Tilsiter Lichtspiele includes current art-house films and documentaries from Europe, America and Asia as well as film classics from every era, some in series. The focus is on German and documentary films. Films in the original language are preferred to be shown in non-German language. The program also includes retrospectives, for example in 2008 on the Berlin director Lothar Lambert , the Austrian underground filmmaker Carl Andersen , who lives in Berlin, and the German film director Roland Klick . Special events and pre-premieres also take place regularly in the cinema.

This also includes film concerts where films are accompanied by live music. Since 2008 there has been its own experimental film and music series, which usually takes place once a month: film in sounds was brought to life by the Swiss composer and musician Antoine Chessex , who collaborated with other musicians for each edition. At the end of 2010 he was followed by the Swedish trumpeter Christian Magnusson , who has been in charge of the series ever since.

During the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival 2013 , the Tilsiter Lichtspiele were the first venue for the Berlinale. As part of the Berlinale goes Kiez film tour , the two German films Ödland - So that nobody noticed that by Anne Kodura and Halbschatten by Nicolas Wackerbarth were shown. In 2018, the cinema was once again a venue for the Berlinale Goes Kiez during the 68th Berlin International Film Festival .

Since 2014, the Tilsiter Lichtspiele have been a permanent venue for the Berlin film festival achtung berlin - new berlin film award , which takes place every April .

In addition to the cinema program, literary readings, concerts and other cultural events take place regularly in the Tilsiter Lichtspiele. East German culture is a particular focus, for example with readings in honor of Wolfgang Hilbig or Thomas Brasch , with actors such as Jürgen Holtz and Inge Keller , and with artists such as Florian Havemann , Egon Günther , Thomas Günther or Herwig Kipping . Once a year there is a neighborhood street festival on Richard-Sorge-Straße, in which the Tilsiter Lichtspiele also take part as an event location.

The daily screenings begin on weekdays at 4:00 p.m. and on weekends at 12:00 p.m., on average 8 to 12 different films are shown. The last screening takes place around midnight, making the Tilsiter Lichtspiele one of the few cinemas in Berlin where films are still shown at midnight. The program is designed monthly and published both on the Internet and in a print edition.

Awards

The Tilsomat 2000 in the cinema bar

For the 2008 annual program, the Tilsiter Lichtspiele operating collective received prizes at the award ceremony for the Berlin-Brandenburg cinema program award (June 2009) and at the award ceremony for the cinema program award from the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (September 2009). The reason for the Berlin-Brandenburg cinema program award says: “The way in which cinema is made in the Tilsiter Lichtspiele is unusual. This applies to the makers themselves, who work unconventionally as a collective, and even more so for their program: Arthaus films, cinematic treasures and cinema rarities - an extraordinary mixture. "

The 2009 annual program was awarded a main prize on August 31, 2010 at the 12th Berlin-Brandenburg Cinema Program Awards. In the reasoning of the jury it says u. a .: “Respect for the rather radical programming!” The Tilsiter Lichtspiele were also honored at the BKM 2010 cinema program award.

The 2010 annual program received one of the main prizes at the 13th Berlin-Brandenburg 2011 Cinema Program Awards. From the reasons given by the jury: “Established as a Kiezkino that acts rather than having premieres. After all, 8 in 2010, mostly the small profiled ones. That again led to more visitors than in the previous year. It can go on like this. But the collective of the Tilsiter Lichtspiele has more and bigger plans for the Ostkreuz. We like to be surprised. "

Since then, the Tilsiter Lichtspiele have been awarded prizes for their cinema programs every year without interruption by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the BKM.

Film production

Between 1991 and 1999, the operators of the cinema produced numerous short films and several long feature films on Beta-SP , including The Truth About the Stasi (1992/2008) and Lethe 2014 (1996). The co-operator Eckard Stüwe was involved in the production of the feature film Lunik (2007).

Kino-Troika Friedrichshain

In 2011, some employees of Tilsiter Lichtspiele opened the future with an enlarged collective on Ostkreuz south of Berlin Ostkreuz train station . The first to be established there in August 2011 was the Pompeii open-air cinema . On January 6, 2012, the first hall of the Kino Zukunft was put into operation in the neighboring building , followed by the second hall on February 23, 2012. The collective therefore has four cinema screens and an open-air screen.

That is why the Kino-Troika was founded in 2012, an ideal superstructure for the program of the three cinemas and its distribution. The quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate trimmed to a troika was used for the logo . For visitors to all three cinemas there is the Troika card , a stamp card that gives them free entry to every 7th cinema show.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Tilsiter Lichtspiele
  2. The cultural film is running - Neue Zürcher Zeitung August 6, 2008
  3. Major alarm in the Lichtspiele - taz November 10, 2008
  4. Press release Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg June 10, 2009
  5. Press release Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Jury reasons ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 1, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medienboard.de
  6. Press release Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg August 29, 2011
  7. Magic land with a view - tip Berlin No. 05/2012
  8. ^ Risen in ruins - Berliner Zeitung May 18, 2012
  9. The desert is alive - Der Tagesspiegel March 17, 2012
  10. Invested in the future - taz April 4, 2012
  11. Screen event and film are not the same - FAZ June 25, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '14.6 "  N , 13 ° 26' 50.2"  E