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programme > cinema programme
Title
Farsangi mámor (cinema programme)
Description
Programme to accompany screenings at the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele cinema in Berlin. The programme bears no date but most likely dates from around the time of the film's German première on 2nd November 1922. During this time cinema owners would regularly produce programmes to promote the latest films showing in their theatres. They usually contained detailed information about the film or films, in this case including a complete plot description. They also often made mention of notable "coming attractions" and contained adverts for local businesses and/or cafés and restaurants within the vicinity of the cinema. The Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele started life as the Prinzeß-Theater in 1911. Located on Kantstraße 163 in Berlin, the 800 capacity converted shop was two full storeys high, with 40 boxes in the upper storey and 560 seats on the ground floor. The theatre was designed by Lucien Bernard (1883-1972), who was a poster painter by trade. In 1919, the Viennese film producer, director and eager entrepreneur Richard Oswald bought the Prinzeß-Theater and reopened it on 19th September as the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele. A month later he opened a second cinema in Berlin, this time on Köpenicker Straße 68. By January the following year he had already yielded control of the second cinema to concentrate entirely on running his operation at Kantstraße, which was considered the better asset, being located in the very heart of Berlin's cinema district at that time. Practically every one of Oswald's films produced before 1925, as well as those of other producers, received its première at the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele on Kantstraße. From 1925 onwards, Oswald started renting out the cinema to other exhibitors, a change that mirrored the downturn in his fortunes during this time, having faced difficulty in realising certain projects and having suffered the commercial failure of others. In March 1926 his production company, Richard Oswald-Film A.G., formally filed for bankruptcy. Three years later the local magistrate's court in Berlin-Mitte announced that the cinema's business activities had been to all extents and purposes discontinued. Four months later it was officially removed from the German trade register. Oliver Hanley / Regina Hoffmann, Deutsche Kinemathek, 06.12.2010 Selected literature (all links still active as of the publication date) * Tim Bentinck, Berlin Cinemas: The development of the cinema in Berlin since 1900, final year thesis for a degree in History of Art at the University of East Anglia, England, June 1975 * Hans-Michael Bock, "Biographie," in Helga Belach, Wolfgang Jacobsen (eds.), Richard Oswald: Regisseur und Produzent, Munich: edition text + kritik, 1990 * Jürgen Kasten, "Expansion, Spekulation und die Freiheit des Produzenten. Zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte von Richard Oswalds Filmfirmen 1916-1925," in Kasten, Armin Loacker (eds.), Richard Oswald; Kino zwischen Spektakel, Aufklärung und Unterhaltung, Vienna: Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2005, pp. 433-453
Id number
BArch_FilmSg1_4132
Classification
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