Bad Nauheim has a cinema again. The “FilmBühne” inspires at first glance as a place of culture and meeting in an art nouveau ambience.
At the festive opening of the lovingly prepared art house cinema, Giovanni Speranza and his team spoiled their first guests with style, charm and a cinematic coup.
Festively dressed guests stride through the entrance door to the »FilmBühne« decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments in almost awe. Behind gathered red theater curtains and a larger-than-life film award Oscar, the spacious entrance opens in stylishly illuminated grey. There’s something uplifting about walking the red carpet. Deep in conversation, people stand and sit here, sip sparkling wine and appetizers and greet each other beaming, welcomed and cared for by Giovanni Speranza and his team.
Curious glances fall into the spacious inner courtyard and the stylish toilet facilities. You climb the stairs to the foyer with a beating heart – and find yourself in a lovingly prepared vestibule in the style of the 1920s. You can’t help but forget time and space while chatting between antique furniture and modern technology and feel good in the now. “Finally going out in style again and getting those high pomps out of the closet,” say Annette Wetekam, Bettina Olmo-Martin and Leila Bauss happily and enthusiastically: “The right concept at the right time in the right place.”
meticulous love to detail
Matthias Wieliki from the city’s public relations department says he was “flashed”, and Mayor Klaus Kreß, First City Councilor and Head of Culture Peter Krank also speak of a “wow” effect when entering the cinema that has been brought to life. The head of the town hall compares his experience with a journey through time and shows great admiration for the meticulous attention to detail with which cinema operator Speranza prepared everything. Courage is also part of such a project, Kress praised the »FilmBühne« as a gift for the spa town. Bad Nauheim’s new head of city marketing, Harald Hock, spoke of a “new jewel in the crown of the city” and a good concept in our time. In the inspiring ambience and with the host qualities experienced here, he could also imagine smaller congresses on the “FilmBühne” in addition to culture.
As soon as the guests, kindly guided by “usher” Dieter Seeger, had settled into the comfortable red armchairs and been spoiled with fresh drinks, the light went out. On the big screen, Giovanni Speranza and his guests took a virtual tour through two intensive years of conversion from the former »Fantasia« to the »FilmBühne«. “I firmly believe that there will be many beautiful moments here,” said the host himself, overwhelmed by the current status of his heart’s project for films, art, music, theater and education.
“Without you noticing it, you are already in the middle of the film stage,” smiled the cinema operator and expressed his conviction: “Everything that is good already existed,” Speranza explained the return to the cinema as a place where society takes place, a place of culture. »It needs you, constantly and constantly, to keep this cultural experience space and meeting place alive. I want and do everything I can to ensure that it lives a long time.« Speranza spoke to the funding officer David Harth from Hessen-Film und Medien about art house cinemas and took the opportunity to express his personal thanks: 140,000 euros from Hessen-Film’s cinema investment program have made a significant contribution contributed to the realization of his dream of art-house cinema.
In a conversation with the screenwriter Doron Wisotzky from Bad Nauheim, Speranza introduced the honorary curator of the »FilmBühne«. With his good childhood friend, who has been a shooting star among screenwriters since »Schlussmacher« at the latest, he selects the films for art house cinemas. “It’s about entertainment,” said Wisotzky, outlining current demands: “The public is looking for interesting and also more serious topics, packaged in an entertaining and humorous way.” The screenwriter thanked the program cinema operator for having seen his first film in the Bad Nauheim cinema for bringing the former »cinema« to life. “Nobody does that alone,” Speranza emphasized with deep gratitude to his partner, his family, friends, neighbors and supporters from near and far.
The cinematic taster on the opening night was a hit. At the beginning of his »Coup«, a perfect mix of documentary and feature film about an unconventional way of earning money, director Sven O. Hill offered his video message of congratulations for the »FilmBühne« as a place where people meet and start a conversation. “Life writes the greatest stories,” was Speranza’s conclusion, and “this is the right project.”
The program
At the start of the »FilmBühnen« era, after »Wonderful«, the film comedy »Contra« by Sönke Wortmann, also recently nominated for the German Film Prize, is on the program with Christoph Maria Herbst in the leading role; Doron Wisotzky wrote the screenplay.
You can find the program and tickets at www.filmbuehne.de.
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