Thalia in Dresden
The Thalia is one of the smallest cinemas in Dresden, in the middle of Dresden’s Neustadt Görlitzer Straße 6. The Thalia is an arthouse cinema with a total of 75 seats. The special feature was that smoking was allowed until January 2008, hence the subtitle: “Cinema. Coffee and Cigarettes”, which with its three “Cs” is a reference to the house that was previously known as “TTT”.
Towards the end of the 19th century, this location was primarily used as a Thymians Thalia-Theater well-known folk theater under the direction of the humorist and folk singer Emil Winter-Tymian. The place where the cinema is now was once the theater box office, restaurant and café. The actual theater hall extended into the courtyard and could accommodate up to 700 people. One of the hall’s former outer walls can be seen in the current beer garden.
The theater was in 1889 as Apollotheater opened in 1905 Edentheater been renamed. From 1910 onwards it was said Thymians Thalia-Theaterafter 1926 also briefly Ehtor stage. The main theater building was completely destroyed in 1945.
On October 21, 2004, Stephan Raack from Dresden reopened the former theater as an art house cinema. From 2005 to 2014 it was one of 200 winners of the BKM Cinema Program Prize and won the main prize for the best short film in 2011. From 2005 to 2007, 2009 to 2010 and 2012 to 2014 it was one of four winners of the Central Germany Cinema Program Prize.
On September 9, 2008 and September 20, 2011, the cinema in Leipzig was named the best arthouse cinema in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded by the Central German Media Promotion and the Central German Film and Television Producers Association – the criteria for this include, in addition to the quality of the films, the proportion of German and Central German, European, children’s and documentary films.
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