Filmbühne Vienna

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Memorial plaque on the house, Kurfürstendamm 26, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

The Filmbühne Wien (1913–1924 Union Theater Kurfürstendamm / Union Palast Kurfürstendamm , 1924–1945 Ufa-Theater Kurfürstendamm ) was a film theater in the Vienna House at Kurfürstendamm 26 in Berlin .

history

The house was built between 1912 and 1913 as the Union Palace in the style of Wilhelminian classicism and was one of the first pure film theaters in Berlin. The architects Nentwich & Simon designed a temple-like facade with Ionic columns and gables. The movie theater opened with Max Reinhardt's silent film Insel der Seligen .

In addition to the 850-seat cinema, the building also housed the new Café des Westens , which was operated as a concert café. The cinema has belonged to UFA since 1924 and has hosted numerous film premieres. In 1945 the name was changed to Filmbühne Wien. A first renovation followed in 1953 when the representative entrance had to give way to shops. After Heinz Riech took over the Ufa cinemas in 1972, seven box cinemas were added to the large hall at the end of the 1970s by separating former boxes and using the formerly spacious foyer . The cinema had Berlin's first Cinemascope screen in 1953 and was at times one of the venues for the Berlinale .

The restaurateur Karl Kutschera , who acquired the Union-Palais at the time in 1918 and ran it until he was forced to close down in 1937 and from 1946 until his death in 1950, played an important role in the development of the Vienna House . After Karl Kutschera's death, his widow Josephine Kutschera ran the Vienna House until 1973. Paul Hildebrandt, her later husband, established the Filmbühne Wien cinema in the 1950s as a venue for the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2000 the cinema was closed due to a lack of visitors. The house, which was protected as an architectural monument, was then to be converted into a commercial building. However, the renovation work has been suspended since 2004. Since then, the building has been used for a short time as an alternative quarter to a department store and in 2007 and 2008 for Dalí exhibitions by the art collector Carsten Kollmeier. Because of the unresolved construction defects, the building remained empty in the following period. Since 2011, the house has been converted into an Apple store location , which was officially opened on May 3, 2013.

World premieres

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: Cinemas in the 1980s. Example: Berlin / West . Schellerten 2008, ISBN 978-3-88842-035-1 .
  • Manfred Overesch , Karl Wilhelm Saal: German history from day to day: 1918–1949 . Directmedia, Berlin 2000. (digital library; 39).

Web links

Commons : Haus Wien (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Dittberner: 1956/57 - International Film Festival (Berlinale). In: khd-research. March 15, 2001, accessed February 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Cay Dobberke: Neighborhood: Karl Kutschera . In: tagesspiegel.de , February 23, 2018
  3. ↑ Dan von Appen: Filmbühne Wien closes because fewer and fewer visitors came . In: Die Welt , April 14, 2000.
  4. ↑ Claudia Fuchs: From the cinema to something very “special” . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 2001
  5. ↑ Cay Dobberke, Christian van Lessen: New case of botched building? Filmbühne Wien stands empty. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 25, 2004, accessed February 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Apple, formerly Filmbühne Wien, previously Union-Palast In: berlin.de , accessed on February 14, 2018.
  7. ↑ Dali stays on Ku´Damm In: openpr.de , September 28, 2007, accessed on February 14, 2018. (PDF; 413 kB)
  8. ↑ Uta Keseling: Vacancy makes Kudamm dawn. In: morgenpost.de. January 18, 2010, accessed February 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Now official: the capital is getting its Apple Store In: ifun.de , December 20, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2018.
  10. ↑ Cay Dobberke: Apple Store opens on May 3rd In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 25, 2013.
  11. ↑ Overesch, Saal (2000), p. 238
  12. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Helmut Käutner

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 43.2 ″  E