Gartenbaukino

In the location's words:

The Gartenbaukino is located at Parkring 12 in Vienna's 1st district, directly between the Palais Coburg and the Stadtpark on the Ringstrasse. The location has a long history: a cinema was opened here as early as 1919 before the current building was erected on the same site in 1960. The opening took place on December 19, 1960 with the film "Spartacus" (directed by Stanley Kubrick) - in the presence of leading actor Kirk Douglas and his wife.

With 736 seats and an impressive large Cinerama screen, the Gartenbaukino is the last large single-screen cinema in Vienna's city center and is considered Vienna's largest and most prestigious arthouse cinema. It combines the charm of the 1960s with state-of-the-art technology.

Since the Forum cinema closed in 1973, the Gartenbaukino has been the central venue of the Viennale - the Vienna International Film Festival - and has hosted numerous important premieres, including the European premiere of "Schindler's List" in 1994 in the presence of director Steven Spielberg. In 2018, the cinema was listed as a historical monument, as it is the only surviving large-capacity, single-screen premiere cinema in Vienna from the post-war modernist period and is of particular cultural and historical significance.