ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Gastronomie- und Studiokinos in der DDR</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script></head>  <body> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#aaaaaa" link="#aaaaaa" vlink="#aaaaaa" alink="#aaaaaa"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"> <p> <center> <a href="images/capitol_siegmar_1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Clubkino Karl-Marx-Stadt/Siegmar, established 1982; Orig./Repro: SStArch Chemnitz"><img border="0" style="margin:10px;" src="images/capitol_siegmar_1_klein.jpg" width="225" height="183" alt="Clubkino Karl-Marx-Stadt/Siegmar; established 1982; orig./repro: SStArch Chemnitz"></a> <a href="images/capitol_hohenstein_2.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="so called Visionsbar in 'Capitol' Hohenstein-Ernstthal; established 1979; orig./repro: SStArch Chemnitz"><img border="0" style="margin:10px;" src="images/capitol_hohenstein_2_klein.jpg" width="222" height="183" alt="so called Visionsbar in 'Capitol' Hohenstein-Ernstthal; established 1979; orig./repro: SStArch Chemnitz"></a> <br> <font size="1"><i>l: Klubkino "Capitol" Karl-Marx-Stadt, established 1982; nowadays Clubkino Siegmar in Chemnitz <br> r: so called Visionsbar in cinema "Capitol" Hohenstein-Ernstthal, established 1979; originals/reproductions: SStArch Chemnitz</i></font size> <p> Sorry, no english text yet except this abstract below. More will follow (hopefully ;-)). <p> This website presents the results of my final thesis for M.A. degree. The thesis studied the reasons of invention and the function of new cinema forms (Klubkino, Kino-Café, Visionsbar), which were built since the 1970s, in the context of the centrally governed GDR media system. These forms of cinema offered movie screening in a club atmosphere connected with gastronomic service and became a widespread facility, especially in the southern boroughs of the GDR. <p> The new concepts of cinema were invented independently from centralised decisions by agents of the subordinated regional levels of the cultural administration as a direct response to serious problems of GDR cinema. The central administration (Hauptverwaltung Film) reacted sceptically, but finally accepted the alternative forms as a solution. So the stereotypical concept of the GDR as a strictly organised system of political constraints and sequestration can not be applied to this subject. However the potential to take advantage of these cinemas to use them as a scope to develop a small-range public on the basis of different events was not used by the staff nor by the visitors. <p> For more information just send an e-mail to tanja (at) ddr-klubkinos (dot) de </center> <p> <center><font size="1">Tanja Tröger 2004 2011</font size></center> </font> </body> </html>