page_title: Scharfrichterhaus
section_title: Modern features
hierarchical_section_title: Scharfrichterhaus / Modern features
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Innenhof des Scharfrichterhauses, Passau English: Patio of the Scharfrichterhaus, Passau
context_page_description: The Scharfrichterhaus in Passau, Germany, is designated as a national historical treasure and was built circa 1200. Located on "Milchgasse", it was the official residence for the Scharfrichter of the city of Passau. It is now a jazz and cabaret stage on which political cabaret is performed.
context_section_description: Today the Scharfrichterhaus has two main features for visitors. The first is a cafe that is part of the house and is modeled after a Viennese coffeehouse of the 19th and 20th century. The second feature is a restaurant with selected food and wine, and an additional wine-cellar.
  The Scharfrichterhaus also contains the independent "Scharfrichter-Cinema". The Passauer film operator Manfred Vesper has rented its rooms since 5 February 1987, based on an initiative from Walter Landshuter for a cinema, fitting to the remaining program of the Scharfrichterhaus. Those rooms had been already used for some years to present a weekly ambitious cinema, but these events had not been widely accepted by the audience.
  A distinct feature of the new institution is the repertory cinema. With its detailed program the visitor knows already weeks in advance what is available. A program guide called "Trailer", the cinema's main advertising, is spread out in a circulation of 6000 copies and laid out in various shops, sent by post or email. The selection of movies, which fit into the other Scharfrichterhaus program, aims to reach viewers interested in non-mainstream movies and is primarily chosen by Vesper.
  In addition, there is also a program advisory board. It consists of Landshuter and Vesper, two professors of the university of Passau, and two employees who work out together the different film rows at their regular meetings and submit them to the annual competition of the Federal Minister of the Interior for support of the cinema (German: Filmförderanstalt). Up to now every year the cinema won the prize of 5000 euro. These prizes must be used for re-investments.
caption: The patio of the Scharfrichterhaus
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