Casino-Lichtspiele
Humbioldstrasse 3,
Freiburg
79098
Humbioldstrasse 3,
Freiburg
79098
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Previously operated by: Ufa
Functions: Dance Studio
Previous Names: Cinema Sexy
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The Casino-Lichtspiele in Freiburg im Breisgau was opened in 1920 as a cinema, restaurant & wine bar. Operated by Ufa for many years it ended its days as a small adult-non-stop-cinema (“Cinema Sexy”).
The theatres had been connected with the large Astoria Theatre in the Humboldtstrasse. They had been closed in 1998. The Casino was converted to a dance academy. The Cinema Sexy is now changing rooms.
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The Casino Kino opened in 1920 and it housed not only a movie theater, but it also housed orange-themed patisserie large restaurants on the ground floor decorated in black and white and a wine bar.
During the last stages of World War II, the hall was reserved for the French occupying soldiers in the evenings, and on October 2, 1945, the city stepped in as the operator at other times. In this urge, it was in keeping with the tradition of efforts after World War I, when it tried to get the entire cinema industry under its control. The reason at the time was moral concerns that the conservative, Catholic upper class of the city had in close harmony with a nearby church. Even after World War II, complaints came from this corner almost every week. Andreas Döllinger was appointed as managing director, and with the help of the French authorities, he ended the city’s paternalism.
A second theater named the Astoria Kino was built nearby in the 1950s.
In 1955, the projection room for the Casino was remodeled, but this meant that the previously oblique projection at an angle of 13 degrees was no longer necessary. First, the balcony had to be closed off because the house owners in their apartment above were disturbed by the noise of the film screenings. Secondly, the entire passage from the “Astoria” to the “Casino”, where the ticket offices were also located, was equipped with arcades in the 1970s, which were operated by the operators of the house. This environment made it virtually impossible to show children’s or family films.
A porn theater called “Cinema Sexy” was added later on. During that time, the “Astoria” acquired a bad reputation that it did not get rid of in the 1990s. The theater was run by various subsidiaries of the Ufa, which at least made an effort to improve the theater’s reputation after 1990. The “Cinema Sexy” was then reopened as just simply “Cinema” and began showing normal films, although the interior design and the almost square plasterboard screen were retained. This lasted until its closure in early-1998.