UT light games
The UT-Lichtspiele were a Lübeck cinema that existed from 1921 to 1922, but followed the tradition of the Fünfhausen concert hall , in which films were shown from 1897 onwards.
Fünfhausen concert hall
In Konzerthaus Fünfhausen , an existing since 1884 vaudeville theater , the main hall to the house on the first floor Fünfhausen was 17-19, already screenings found early on instead: The fall season of 1897 was on September 16, with a guest performance by the Hamburg variety shows of Emil Naucke opened . One of the program points here was the showing of films with a Lumière - cinematograph , which was highlighted in the newspapers.
The film screenings were such a great success that from then on they were given a permanent place in the program of the Fünfhausen concert hall. At least one or two performances by traveling cinema entrepreneurs took place per season , which soon no longer featured variety acts among others, but became independent attractions without an accompanying artistic program. As part of these cinema screenings, up to 50 films with a total duration of two hours were shown.
In 1905 and 1906, there were film screenings almost every day. With the establishment of fixed movie theaters in Lübeck, which began with the opening of Dierck's Hansa-Kinematograph in April 1906, the film screenings in the Konzerthaus Fünfhausen lost their importance again.
Victoria light plays
In the spring of 1912 Wilhelm Senff , who had previously headed the Kino Metropol , took over the Konzerthaus Fünfhausen with the intention of converting it into a cinema , which was Lübeck's largest with 800 seats. The large hall on the first floor was given complete cinema equipment with its own projection room and permanently installed screen .
On March 12, 1912, the new cinema was opened under the name Victoria-Lichtspiele . Shortly after the start of operations, Senff withdrew from the company; Together with the management of the cinema, Erna Thiele also took on considerable difficulties with the Lübeck authorities, as many of the safety regulations applicable to cinemas had not been observed during the renovation.
From the end of July to October 12, 1912, cinema operations were suspended, then resumed and stopped after just a few days. In the same month Lieutenant Kurt von Hünerbein rented the cinema from Erna Thiele and continued the daily film screenings from November 4th until December. There is nothing to suggest that they continued thereafter.
After the First World War , the restaurateur Heinrich Todt took over the building, set up the Fledermaus nightclub in the great hall and turned a small hall on the ground floor into a variety theater, which closed in January 1921 due to unprofitability. For a few weeks the city theater then tried unsuccessfully to operate a chamber theater there .
UT light games
After the summer break in 1921, the small ground floor hall was converted by Ernst Schmutzer into a cinema with 500 seats, which was opened on November 19th under the name UT-Lichtspiele . The name was borrowed from the Union Theaters , a chain of large premiere cinemas famous at the time. However, there is nothing to indicate that the Lübeck UT Lichtspiele were related to the UT cinemas.
On April 4, 1922, Schmutzer informed the police that he had sold the UT-Lichtspiele to Otto Tangermann from Hamburg . Tangermann only ran the cinema for a few months. From mid-October 1922, no more newspaper advertisements appeared. The operation was stopped; Tangermann returned to Hamburg at the end of the month.
The history of the cinema in the Fünfhausen 17-19 building ended with the UT light plays. From 1923 until the house was destroyed in the bombing raid in March 1942 , the small hall served as a storage room for the Fledermaus pub .
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987, ISBN 3-925402-35-7 .