Ausstellungs-Kinematograph in München / Germany

This well-preserved postcard dates from 1908.

To celebrate the city's 750th anniversary, an arts and crafts, industry, trade, and commerce exhibition entitled "München 1908" was opened in May 1908 at the newly built exhibition grounds on Theresienhöhe. 

It attracted around 3 million visitors – thanks to modern public relations efforts that included postcards.

The exhibition ran until October 1908, the cinema was used during the summer months until 1914. The building was constructed using timber framing, for a period of about 5 years and for 400 people. The cinema was built by the architect Otho Orlando Kurz (1881-1933). It was the first freestanding building built solely for film screenings in Munich, and possibly in all of Germany. And it was the second biggest cinema at this time in Munich. 

Next to it there was also a shadow play theatre and a puppet theatre.

The cinema was run by Wilhelm Sensburg, a German cinema pioneer. It was common practice for cinema owners to make short films about daily attractions and sights themselves and show them to the public as soon as possible.

I found some good information about thish cinema in the book "Für ein Zehnerl ins Paradies. Münchner Kinogeschichte 1896 bis 1945".