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The "Cinemamobile" in flames

2021-08-30T14:54:03.387Z


Finning - a projector is saved. At least that. Wolf Gaudlitz 'Cinemamobile, his open-air cinema truck, with which he brought films into the desert, can no longer be saved. After a short circuit in the driver's cab on Friday, the blue and white Mercedes A 1017 burned out completely. The 66-year-old is not discouraged: “I'll do everything as planned.” For example tonight: There will be a special screening of the documentary “Lionhearted - Aus der Cover” in Windach Castle - long before the official cinema release, including director Antje Inside mountain. And also at the Sammersee in Steinebach, the Munich citizen will open his canvas from Thursday. 


Finning - a projector is saved. At least that. Wolf Gaudlitz 'Cinemamobile, his open-air cinema truck, with which he brought films into the desert, can no longer be saved. After a short circuit in the driver's cab on Friday, the blue and white Mercedes A 1017 burned out completely. The 66-year-old is not discouraged: “I'm doing everything as planned.” For example tonight: There will be a special screening of the documentary “Lionhearted - Aus der Cover” in Windach Castle - long before the official cinema release, including director Antje Inside mountain. And also at the Sammersee in Steinebach, the Munich citizen of the world will open his canvas from Thursday. 

“It was a twilight of the gods,” says Gaudlitz.

“It was spectacular how the truck was on fire in the cornfield, cinema on a grand scale.

It couldn't have been staged any better. ”And because a filmmaker documents events in pictures, Gaudlitz also picks up his camera when his Cinemamobile is on fire (see photos).

“It's a shame that so few people saw this spectacle.” Gallows humor?

At least some kind of it.

That helps in difficult situations, the 66-year-old knows.


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The sad remains of the Wolf Gaudlitz Cinemamobile after the devastating fire.

© Gaudlitz

He smelled it already in Finning, says Gaudlitz, that something is wrong with the engine. He didn't stop: “I didn't want to endanger anyone. And there on the mountain I couldn't just stand still. ”Which is why he drove on into a dirt road and parked the truck in a corn field. First he tried to extinguish the fire with a fire extinguisher in the engine compartment, "it just simmered there". At the first flame, Gaudlitz immediately dialed 112. They were there in ten minutes, he says. But two Porsche drivers, who happened to be fire fighters, were even faster. With their help, he was able to save the projector from the truck. Not only they helped: "Bruno Frieb, a farmer, tore down the walls of the truck with his tractor so that the fire brigade could put everything out." It took hours. He didn't even want anything for the help,tells Gaudlitz.


In 1998, the cineast bought the 1981 twelve-and-a-half-tonne truck from the military in Sigmaringen and converted it into a mobile cinema for quite a lot of money. The police put the damage 'only' at 35,000 euros. But Gaudlitz knows that such a car, “the greatest off-road vehicle”, is no longer so easy to get today. When he bought it, the truck had just 9,000 kilometers on the clock. Shortly before its end, it was over 250,000 kilometers. Gaudlitz mainly drove into the desert, from his main place of residence, Sicily, and also to Germany - when the TÜV was due for the truck. Now he has been gondola through the world for 23 years without anything happening. “And then of all places here in Upper Bavaria.” Gaudlitz laughs.Because on Thursday evening the Eberhofer crime thriller “Winter potato dumplings” flickered across the screen of his cinemobile - more of an outlier in Gaudlitz's art house program. Perhaps he shouldn't have shown it: "Because before that I said that if I show an Eberhofer film, my screen will burn down."


Balm for the soul


What makes the filmmaker happy, despite the complete loss of his cinema home, is the help he has received.

Through the Porsche drivers, through farmer Bruno Frieb, through the fire fighters.

"And then there is the email from the Probst bus company from Ichenhausen on Sunday," says Gaudlitz.

They still have a canvas six meters wide that they would like to give him as a present.

“You can feel that the people are healthy.

That is balm for the soul. "


It all started with the wonderful Landsberg cultural summer, during which Gaudlitz also showed his film “Sahara Salaam” in Windach (the KREISBOTE reported).

It's nice to see how creative people are supported directly.

He also likes the curiosity of the people here in the district, "that has nothing of the big-headed".


The artistic director of the cultural summer Franz Hartmann and his brother, Second Mayor Moritz Hartmann, want to give Gaudlitz a helping hand. Because he won't let himself be dissuaded from his plans: “It's about the culture,” he says. “We are their service provider.” And: “I can't help but continue. That's my life too. "


Gaudlitz motto: “You don't have a chance, but use it.” It comes from Achternbusch's “Atlantic swimmers”. The screen for his 'continuation' is secured, also thanks to Rainer Hollenweger from Geretshausen, who scrubbed the suspension for the screen - “the last remnant of the Cinemamobile” - with him, says Gaudlitz. He has enough films, a beamer also survived. But Gaudlitz does not yet know whether he will have a Cinemamobile again. If so, then it's only through donations, he doesn't have any possessions himself. And the environment too: with the fire he polluted the air so badly that he shouldn't drive the long way into the desert. And if you do, then maybe with a carriage.

Source: merkur

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