Traumpalast Backnang

The building on Eduard-Breuninger-Straße has shown films since 1939, when the Bäuerle family, cinema operators in Backnang since 1915, opened the Neues Filmtheater there to plans by the architect Otto Nußbaum. The archive allekinos.com notes that the street front is still much as it was. The house grew inwards: the balcony became a second screen in 1986, part of the foyer a third, and two more halls followed around 2010. Heinz Lochmann, who ran it from 1985 to 1997, took it back in 2012 and renamed it Traumpalast. Blue is the theme throughout: Blue Star, Blue Sky, Blue Diamond, Blue Motion and Blue Velvet, some 570 seats in all. The 200-seat Blue Star has Dolby Atmos and VIP D-Box motion seats. The programme is mainstream first-run and almost entirely dubbed, with children's matinees, classical relays and a short open-air season each summer in the courtyard of the Schickhardt-Realschule.

The 5 halls

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  Blue Star

  200 seats · 10 × 4.6 m · Dolby Atmos · D-BOX

  The largest room, with Dolby Atmos, 36 Lounge seats and eight VIP-grade D-BOX motion seats.

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  Blue Sky

  90 seats · 7 × 3.2 m

  Its own Lounge of 17 seats, over a carpet that reads like a mosaic.

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  Blue Diamond

  100 seats · 5.5 × 2.3 m · D-BOX

  An ice-world treatment, with 19 Lounge seats and seven D-BOX motion seats.

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  Blue Motion

  100 seats · 6.2 × 2.6 m

  More than 10,000 rivets on the walls.

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  Blue Velvet

  80 seats · 6.3 × 2.8 m

  Done throughout in Jugendstil.

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