Photos and the City

Category: Vienna

Vintage Stadl – Pop Up Shop

I love inner court- and backyards – you never know what you may find. Sometimes there are real jewels hidden behind the doors and walls. Today I visited the Pop Up Shop by Vintage Stadl at Berggasse 5 in Vienna. It´s a beautiful building from the outside, elegant entrance and hallway and then there is this gorgeous neo-baroque hall in the courtyard, a treasure!

The building was erected in 1825 by Josef Klee by order of Johann Niernsee. First it was called “Zum Schweizer” and later on “Zum silbernen Brunnen” – this neo-baroque hall seems to have been built in 1890 and was used as a restaurant, the courtyard served as “Schanigarten”. I found an old image (postcard) from the restaurant and the garden with lots of tables while looking for some information on that place. (Try google image search: “Franz Gilly Zum silbernen Brunnen”)

In the last years it has been used by a printer and was filled with huge machines, but renovation works will start soon and an event agency will bring back it´s almost original use as a venue.

Till December 19th the room is filled with beautiful vintage furniture and accessories by Vintage Stadl. The Pop Up shop is opened from Tuesday to Friday 10.00 – 18.00 – don´t miss it!

12/12/2014
Photo Playground

When I was in Berlin this spring I really wanted to visit the Olympus Playground, but too many others had the same idea, the queue went around the whole building. But lucky me the Olympus Playground came to Vienna!

At the entrance one can choose to borrow a camera, I took an Olympus Pen as I´ve been dying to try those. They give you a short introduction to how to use the came and you´re ready to get started. My favourite part was propably the room where ones movements are transformed to an audio tone frequency and somehow shown at the wall – the “Resonant Grid”. Try it – it´s fun!

All pictures inside the Playground were taken with an Olympus Pen (I forgot the exact model, but it´s an awesome camera!). I definately will visit again, the Playground will be open until Dec 19th.

28/11/2014
Rosenhügelstudios – Halle 1

This part of the Rosenhügelstudios is one of the oldest. Around 1919, when Vita-Film built these studios, daylight was used to shoot movies. The studios used to have huges windows and ceilings made of glass. But Vita-Film choose to believe in technologie and built one of the first studios for artifical light.

Halle 1 is 24 metres wide, 90 metres long and around 40 metres high. A 3 metres deep basin enabled underwater pictures.

Movies like “Samson and Delila”, “Hoffmans Erzählungen”, “Hotel Potemkin”, “Maskerade” and many many more were produced at Rosenhügelstudios. Or more recent the tv-show “Mundl” or movies like “Der Bockerer”, “Funny Games” and “Die Klavierspielerin”.

27/11/2014