For three weeks, sitting in Germany. In spite of the best spring weather, a restricted curfew has been imposed on Restaurants, beer gardens, football grounds and cinemas – everything fun is closed. Completely different looks every night in the Sulterkamp in the North of Essen. The local drive-in cinema can save demand – long lines and happy families everywhere you look.
At the drive-in cinema Corona makes for long queues
“over Here with the BMW and the Camper must go to the back,” shouts the theatre Manager Frank Pecziak over the place, “then we make the next series.” It is again a lot of something going on at the drive-in theater in Essen. “The demand has increased in recent years. We have 50,000 visitors per year,” laughs Pecziak, “but what’s going on here at the Moment. We are fully booked for the next ten, twelve days.“ press-inform, the drive-in movie eat, 2020
Normally, the drive-in cinema is only a part of the source of income. Thursday takes place on the large Area, a flea market and on Saturday a trade of used cars. Both are currently prohibited due to the Corona-pandemic – the-night cinema is allowed, because the audience to sit separately from each other in their vehicles. Here, the Auto-Newsletter
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families with children: the Desperate search for distraction
Germany in the Corona calliper. At least officially you are only allowed to go shopping, to sports and to work out of the own four walls. The roads of the Ruhr area during the day, but still full. A traffic jam on the A40 – there is also, despite the Corona, and the people out driving in the nice weather. Just parents with children do not know what you should throughout the day with the young company. Playing with friends is officially forbidden, cinemas and events from the fall and the drive-in cinema is in food is currently more light than light game house. press-inform, the drive-in movie eat, 2020
“We are pleased that we are at least a night once out of it,” says Peter Weinberg from his Opel Zafira, “the children would like to come every night.” The Vineyard are driven to fourth from the vicinity of Düsseldorf and Essen. Tonight there is a children’s film: the kangaroo Chronicles. But the program has with the Joker, Bad Boys or Nightlife a few other strip in the program, the kidneys every evening age. You recognize good and poor wash facilities FOCUS Online/Wochit you will realise good and bad washing plants
Just a few drive-in cinemas in Germany
each night there are two performances – at 21 o’clock, and shortly before midnight. The Corona-crisis and the associated curfew has brought the drive-in cinemas new inlet. You are allowed to currently probably the only possibility with impunity to the entertainment outside. “Our customers buy the movie tickets online and these are scanned through the closed car window,” reports Heiko Desch, which operates in Germany, several drive-in theaters. In addition to the in the North of Essen automobiles, light houses in Cologne, lure for example-Porz and Kornwestheim nightly viewers. “Normally, our cinema will have 1,000 Parking spaces,” says Desch, “we have reduced to the Corona-times on a quarter.” The catchment area is powerful. A lot of driving 60 kilometers and more – even from the Netherlands, some of cinema fans to make a Corona-trip into the heart of the Ruhr area. The entrance: a mere eight euros per Person. press-inform, the drive-in movie food 2020 – Frank Pecziak
In the vehicles, even four people – two adults and two children maximum. The local snack bar, is currently closed to protect guests and staff from infections. “It’s a shame – the burgers and especially the Popcorn class,” says Jens, who is sitting with his girlfriend in a dark VW Golf, and already the seats to the rear of the tilt has. Between the two Cola and Chips – there you go.
car only leaving for the toilet
The film, fans are asked not to leave the car. Only the toilet of the drive-in theaters can be visited, and here the ladies of the world stands at a distance of about five meters of each other, because only one Person is allowed to use this entire plant alone. However, the movie enjoyment in your own car is otherwise the same as before the Corona times. In each car there are Munchies and drinks, while the action is acoustically brought to the local frequency of 90.0 Mhz in the car and from the car boxes, sounds. Comeback in times of Corona-crisis: drive-in theatres are enjoying a new popularity of PCP Comeback in times of Corona-crisis: drive-in theatres are enjoying a new popularity
The drive-in movie food has been around for decades. “We play every day and in any weather,” says Frank Pecziak, the food at the location of four permanent employees and up to 30 auxiliary forces, “we have recently invested in powerful. Last year, the snack area, and only four weeks ago, the new asphalt surface is completed, has cost a Million euros.“ The alternating rows are beveled so that all the wind protection appears to be looking slightly upward at the oversized canvas. A whole series of cars with families driving to Pecziak over and meadows of the folders in.
Laser projection with 6000 Lumen
Long gone are the times where once in the car in hung speakers blaring the action. The same applies to the image, because the old 35-mm strips are long a thing of the past. Digital is conjured up and the action on the oversized screen. Even more high-tech in-car cinema from Cologne-Porz. “Here we has been working for some time with a Laser projection, which is 60,000 lumens of light,” says the cinema operator Heiko Desch. While the cinemas all over the world starve due to the domestic supply of Netflix, Sky or Amazon Prime, and once 800 million visitors in the year 2018 to a record low of 100 million viewers, fell, were able to keep the drive-in theaters of their declines in the borders. “Many drive-in cinemas have disappeared in the 60s and 70s, when the big cities were getting bigger and the land was used for other purposes,” says Desch. Today, Germany has about 20 drive-in theaters.
But the number is increasing. After the cinemas have been closed for weeks and an Opening of Cinemax, Cinestar and Multiplex is hardly in sight, many operators to open new drive-in cinemas. “But most of them have only a small canvas,” smiles Frank Pecziak, “the da is as large as the small snack shack.” S says’and the next guests, while the canvas indicates, once again, to stay in the car. It goes with the kangaroo Chronicles, and late in the evening, the Joker is allowed to dance on the canvas of the Film, however, is only from 16 years.
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