HISTORY
Cinema under the Stars started in the year 1996 in the context of the celebration of a jubilee, regarding the creation of cinema, as the first Open-Air cinema in Vienna, Austria, in the baroque Augarten.
In the year 1997 and 1998 a co-operation between Cinema under the Stars and the international Viennese Filmfestival Viennale occurred.
2001 a collaboration with SYNEMA, association for film and media, took place. The known program expanded with an additional series of lectures named “déjà W I E N“ on Sundays.
In 2002 the Special “Amok” dealt with the topics globalisation and violence. In the course of a picnic Franzobel,Paulus Hochgatterer and others were giving lectures.
2003 is characterized by a co-operation with the Austrian Film Museum called “Zweigroschenzauber”.
2004 Cinema under the Stars was welcoming Ray Harryhausen, who visited the event and presented his movies.
2006 the anniversary celebration of 10 years Cinema under the Stars took place. For that the usual surrounding area had to change a bit because of the fact that the close Flakturm threatened to collapse.
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