The teddy bears have had their day: auction in the Dorfen cinema

Created: 06/10/2022, 16:00

By: Michaele Heske

The teddy bears in the Dorfen cinema were friendly neighbors.

Inge and Georg Schmederer are now auctioning them off for the benefit of Jakobmayer's friends.

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s'Kino is auctioning off the stuffed animals that kept the distance between visitors during the pandemic.

The proceeds benefit the friends of Jakobmayer.

Dorfen

– For many months, more than twenty teddies sat in their seats in the s'Kino in Dorfen.

After the first lockdown, they kindly provided the film fans with the necessary virological distance.

On the Gallimarkt Sunday this weekend, the cute stuffed animals will be auctioned off in the cinema from 2 p.m.

A Hamburg restaurant owner put teddy bears at his tables, that's what Inge Schmederer, who runs the cinema in Dorfen with her husband Georg, read somewhere.

"A really great idea," she thought, also to fill the empty seats when the condition was that the hall should only be half occupied.

"The one in Hamburg, we in Bavaria - that was enough distance," she recalls with a laugh.

Together, the two cineastes searched the Internet for placeholders made of fabric, found what they were looking for in a toy store clearance sale in Lower Bavaria and ordered high-quality teddy bears there at half price.

"The small cuddly toys were significantly more expensive than the big ones," they say.

A gag that was very well received by the visitors, by the way.

"The collection is no longer complete, we have already sold some teddies to regular customers," says Georg Schmederer.

Now the stuffed animals have done their job.

"We start at ten euros - of course there is no upper limit." Incidentally, the proceeds benefit the "Friends of Jakobmayer", the association also paid for the purchase price at the time.

By the way, because of the small auction, the afternoon performance for children is cancelled.

"At 5.30 p.m. the fantasy drama "Three Thousand Years of Longing" is shown, and at 8 p.m. "The Kangaroo Conspiracy".

Georg Schmederer believes that the pandemic is not over, but the cinema boss naturally hopes that there will be no further distance regulations or the closure of the cinemas this winter: "Maybe masks are mandatory, but we can live with that."

The auction on Sunday is intended to serve another purpose, explains Georg Schmederer.

"There's always a lot going on at the Galli market, so we might encourage one or the other to come to our film theater." For his wife Inge, it's unimaginable: "There are actually still people who don't even know what for a great cinema we have in Dorfen.” The choice of films is exquisite, good program cinema can be seen on the screen.

And since "Guglhupfgeschwader" the box office has been ringing again.