Theatres, arenas and venues to film in Austria
26 of them, 10 with a photo and 8 with practical details the location publishes itself. 2 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them.
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Amalienbad
Theatre, arena & venue
Art Deco public indoor swimming pool built in the 1920s in Favoriten, with a 33.3 by 12.5 metre sports pool, a historic diving platform up to 10 metres, a children's pool and separate men's and women's sauna areas.
Indoor sports pool, diving platform, children's pool, men's and women's sauna areas, showers and changing rooms
Bergisel Ski Jump
Theatre, arena & venue
Zaha Hadid's 2002 ski jump tower on Innsbruck's Bergisel hill, combining a competition in-run and judging tower with a public viewing platform and cafe over the city.
Capacity: 120 · Bergisel Sky restaurant/bar has 360-degree glazing and holds a maximum of 120 people. The SeminarRaum seats up to 80 people and has a 10 m2 whiteboard...
Burgtheater
Theatre, arena & venue
Austria's national theatre on the Ringstrasse, a grand 19th-century building with ceremonial staircases, foyers and a horseshoe-shaped auditorium.
Filmhaus Kino am Spittelberg
Theatre, arena & venue
A cinema in Vienna's Spittelberg quarter with a 100-seat auditorium, a small bar, and both analogue and digital projection able to show ratios from 1.33:1 to 2.35:1.
Capacity: 100
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Kongressbad
Theatre, arena & venue
An open-air municipal pool in Vienna's Ottakring district, opened in 1928 during the Red Vienna era, with a heritage-protected entrance and red-and-white wooden facades.
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Krapfenwaldlbad
Theatre, arena & venue
An open-air bath on Vienna's Kahlenberg hill in the Doebling district, with several pools, wide sunbathing lawns and a view over the city; the main building and 1920s Waldhaus keep their original look.
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Laaerbergbad
Theatre, arena & venue
An outdoor swimming pool from the late 1950s on a slope of the Laaer Berg in Vienna's Favoriten district, with a wave pool, a multi-purpose pool, diving facilities and mature trees.
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Theresienbad
Theatre, arena & venue
A public indoor and outdoor swimming bath in Vienna's Meidling district, reopened in the 1960s and still showing some original mosaic decoration alongside a children's pool section.
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Volksoper Wien
Theatre, arena & venue
Vienna's second opera house, a late-19th-century theatre staging opera, operetta and musicals, with a traditional gilded auditorium and backstage areas.
Wiener Stadthalle
Theatre, arena & venue
Vienna's largest multi-purpose arena, opened in 1958, with several halls used for concerts, sport and exhibitions under a distinctive folded roof.
Capacity: 16000 · Halle D: up to 16,000 capacity (10,741 seated), interior space 4,968 m2, foyer 2,120 m2, interior height 15.4 m, stage up to 476 m2 (adjustable height...
Bregenz Festival House
Theatre, arena & venue
A lakeside festival hall on Lake Constance, home of the Bregenz Festival's floating stage and indoor auditorium, backed by mountain views.
Seen in: James Bond: Quantum of Solace
Brigittenauer Bad
Theatre, arena & venue
A municipal indoor and outdoor swimming complex in Vienna's Brigittenau district, with plain functional architecture, large glazed halls and outdoor lawns for everyday, present-day scenes.
Indoor multipurpose pool, teaching pool and heated pool with sauna area; outdoor non-swimmer pool, sunbathing lawns and water playground
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Casino Wien
Theatre, arena & venue
A casino across four floors of the Baroque Palais Esterhazy on Vienna's Kaerntner Strasse, with a ground-floor jackpot hall, roulette, blackjack and baccarat tables, a bar and a restaurant.
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Das Off Theater
Theatre, arena & venue
A black-box theatre in Vienna's Neubau district with fixed, steeply raked seating, a stage 6 metres wide and up to 12 metres deep, plus a cloakroom and theatre bar.
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Depot (Kunst und Diskussion)
Theatre, arena & venue
An art and discussion venue on Breite Gasse in Vienna's Neubau district, with a 36 square metre cafe and a 75 square metre function room seating around 100, plus a small outdoor terrace.
Capacity: 100
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Donaustaedter Bad
Theatre, arena & venue
A municipal multi-purpose pool complex in Vienna's Donaustadt district in late-modern style, with indoor and outdoor swimming areas and a sauna facility.
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Dschungel Wien
Theatre, arena & venue
A children's and youth theatre in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier with three stages, two studio spaces, a foyer box office and its own cafe.
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Filmcasino
Theatre, arena & venue
An arthouse cinema in Vienna's Margareten district screening independent films in their original language, listed in the city film commission's location catalogue.
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Foundation Gänsehäufel
Theatre, arena & venue
Former tennis clubhouse on a wooded island in the Old Danube, now run as an independent art, production and event space with its own artist residency.
65 sqm interior, 50 sqm outdoor area, electricity and water connections, WC
Halle E+G, MuseumsQuartier
Theatre, arena & venue
Two multipurpose halls in the former imperial stables at Vienna's MuseumsQuartier, with a foyer, colonnaded entrance and backstage production offices, used for concerts, exhibitions and events.
Ground-level access, backstage dressing rooms and production offices, freight and passenger lift, high-voltage power
Kunstlerhaus Wien
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1868 exhibition and social hall at Vienna's Karlsplatz, built in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa for the country's largest artists' association, fully renovated with modern event technology.
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Ottakringer Bad
Theatre, arena & venue
A combined indoor and outdoor pool in Vienna's Ottakring district, with a diving pool, separate saunas, a steam room, a cold plunge pool and an outdoor adventure pool with slides.
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Simmeringer Bad
Theatre, arena & venue
A multi-purpose municipal swimming facility in Vienna's Simmering district, with indoor and outdoor pools, a toddler pool, a slide tower and sunbathing lawns bordered by trees.
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Stadtkino im Kunstlerhaus
Theatre, arena & venue
An arthouse cinema built in 1947 inside Vienna's Kunstlerhaus building on Akademiestrasse, with a decorated period interior, a foyer restaurant and its own festival programme.
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Vienna State Opera
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1869 opera house on the Ringstrasse with a gilded auditorium, grand staircase and backstage areas that host around 350 performances a season.
Wiener Riesenrad (Prater)
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1897 giant Ferris wheel and adjoining amusement park on the edge of the Prater, with vintage gondola cabins and a fairground of rides, food stalls and an events hall.
Seen in: The Third Man (1949)
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