Münter & Kandinsky

In the organizer's words:

It's summer, and the outdoor pool at Brauweg is hosting our annual open-air cinema: watch movies under the stars, and swim, bathe and picnic beforehand - outdoor pool AND cinema, every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, from July 3 to August 30. As always, you are welcome to bring your own blankets and picnic utensils, but drinks, snacks and popcorn will also be provided in the outdoor pool. You can sit on the large lawn, and there are chairs for those who find the ground too uncomfortable.

Admission is from 8pm (Saturday from 7.30pm), and if you buy your tickets in advance (online here via our website or at our box offices), you'll help us keep the queues short. The screenings start at dusk, the approximate starting times can be found in the program booklet and when booking tickets online here on this page.

D 2024, 126 min., FSK 12

Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller

With: Vanessa Loibl, Vladimir Burlakov, Marianne Sägebrecht

At the beginning of the 20th century, Berlin-born Gabriele Münter lives and paints together with her great love, the Russian Wassily Kandinsky, in the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee. The province becomes the starting point of an artistic awakening into modernity, which revolutionizes painting and the understanding of art and gives rise to the loose artist movement "Der Blaue Reiter". The film atmospherically traces the life and love story of Münter and Kandinsky: The young painting student who falls in love with the teacher who is almost eleven years her senior. Their life together while traveling and in the Blue Land, which became a source of inspiration for their painting and made them pioneers of their time. Their artistically productive but privately rather fatal relationship, which makes Münter increasingly desperate and Kandinsky increasingly disgruntled ...