The Provitreff, located in Kreis 5 at Sihlquai 240, came into being in the 1980s when the city of Zurich rented the premises to the "Circus Theater Federlos", the "Spuntengruppe Levante" and the "Kulturgruppe Houdini" at a favorable price.

The Provitreff, located in Kreis 5 at Sihlquai 240, came into being in the 1980s when the city of Zurich rented the premises cheaply to the "Circus Theater Federlos", the "Spuntengruppe Levante" and the "Kulturgruppe Houdini". During the reconstruction of the youth center "Drahtschmidli" in 1984 (today "Dynamo"), the rooms became a temporary meeting place. Since then, the self-managed, non-subsidized cultural space and meeting place "Provitreff" has existed - this name has been kept until today. In the years that followed, it developed into a popular cultural space open to a wide variety of groups and individuals. In 1993, the users founded the non-profit association Provitreff. In 1998, the factory building, which was over a hundred years old, was renovated; minor structural adjustments improved its useful use as a cultural space and meeting place.


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