Bavaria Cinema

Even before the World War I, there had been movie theatres with the same name in Regensburg, although they had nothing to do with this theatre. Ludwig Scheer, a Wurzburg theatre operator and the former president of the Reich Association of German Cinema Owners until 1933, opened the Bavaria Cinema in October 1950. The theatre was originally part of the Eden Hall in the Hotel Karmeliten on Maximilianstrasse located right at the corner of Speichergasse which was one of the most frequented locations in the city.

Information about the Bavaria Cinema as of 1950 goes as follows: The exterior was dominated by neon lighting in the evenings. The interior of the building had three large anterooms, divided into a vestibule, a 20m long ticket hall with elegant display cases and a foyer with the cloakroom as well as three entrances to the theatre’s ground floor. From the ticket hall, a marble staircase with an ornately forged railing led up to the intimate balcony. The foyer with its wall mirrors, mirrored tables, wall lamps and a stylized wall painting made for a pleasant time before the performance. The first thing that caught the eye about the architecture of the auditorium with its 516 high upholstered seats was the wave-shaped ceiling, which emitted indirect lighting. The walls were paneled with wood up to a height of 2.30m and then covered with green silk damask. The projection booth contains two Ernemann VII B-unit machines and an Uniphon loudspeaker system.

The Bavaria Cinema was tripled in 1979 and was closed in 1998.

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