Alabama cinema

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The Alabama cinema on the Kampnagel site

The Alabama is an art house cinema on the grounds of the Hamburg cultural center Kampnagel in Hamburg-Winterhude .

It is the successor to the cinema of the same name that existed on Kieler Strasse in Hamburg-Eidelstedt until 1992 and that in turn emerged from the Eidelstedter Lichtspiele, which opened in 1935 . The projection room has 156 seats.

The program focuses on sophisticated independent films , breakfast matins and productions tailored to the Kampnagel theater environment . During the day, the program is dominated by children's and youth films . Films in the original language with German subtitles are also part of the regular repertoire.

The technical equipment consists of a digital projector , a Bauer U4C 35mm film projector , which is still used occasionally , a Dolby SR sound system and a screen of 21 m². The seating comes from Kamphöner.

history

The history of Alabama cinema can essentially be broken down into three main sections.

Eidelstedt light plays

In 1935 Wilhelmine Bolt opened a cinema with 302 seats under the name Eidelstedter Lichtspiele in the dance hall of the Haus Doppeleiche guesthouse at 741 Kieler Strasse. Around 1940 Erwin Bolt joined the company as another owner. After the destruction of the inn in the Second World War , Rolf Michelsen temporarily continued the cinema operations as managing director in the extension of Ramcke's Gasthaus on Kieler Strasse 620 with 400 seats. The projector still came from the rubble of the bombed-out cinema, which the projectionist Lange salvaged and repaired. A year later, owner Annitha Bolt and her managing director Michelsen moved the cinema to the dance hall of Ramcke's Gasthaus at number 622-624, which had been converted into a cinema. The screening room now offered 380–400 seats. In 1971 Horst Kretzer appears as the owner and the number of seats is given as 300.

In the post-war years the number of cinema-goers was so great that from 1958 (after Jäger since September 10, 1954) to 1972 a second cinema, the Barberina-Lichtspiele , was operated in Eidelstedt . The projection room of the cinema operated by the two women Rohlfs and Steinhoff in Kieler Straße 723 offered 630 seats. A Ernemann IX film projector with a light source from Becklicht, a Zeiss Dominar cinema amplifier and a CS image and sound system was used here. The canvas had a size ratio of 1: 2.35. After the closure, the cinema and neighboring buildings were demolished and the Eidelstedt Center was built.

Alabama in Hamburg-Eidelstedt

Fantasy Film Festival logo

In 1977, Hans-Peter Jansen and Michael Conrad took over the cinema and continued to run it as an art house cinema under the name Alabama . All films outside of the mainstream were shown, such as trash films , horror films , B-movies , or sex films that were not shown in other Hamburg cinemas. On special theme evenings, entire film series, such as B. Raumpatrouille Orion or several films of a genre in a row. The cinema was also successful with the regular Gore Night, the Hamburg Trickfilmfestival, the Hamburg Kinotagen and the children's cinema, where day-care centers could choose the films they want . Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western Play Me a Song of Death was performed monthly in Alabama. On special occasions there was live music and brunch buffets on stage .

In 1987, the Alabama Kino was the founder and host of the Fantasy Film Festival in Hamburg in cooperation with the Markthalle Hamburg and the Metropolis Kino .

In 1991 Jansen and his companion Michael Conrad had the cinema renovated with 170 seats for around 40,000 DM and brought the technology up to date, but in October 1991 the Ramcke community of heirs made a decision to close the cinema and replace it with a combined one To build residential and commercial buildings. The Alabama closed its doors on December 31, 1992. After leaving Alabama, Jansen took over the Fama Filmtheater in Hamburg-Lurup .

The technical equipment of the cinema consisted of film projectors Bauer Standard 5 and Standard 7 with light sources from Becklicht, amplifier and loudspeaker system from Elac and image and sound system CS 1 KL.

(Former location: 53 ° 36 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 42.9 ″  E )

Alabama Cinema on Kampnagel

After the cinema in Eidelstedt was closed, cinema operations were resumed on October 21, 1993 under the name Alabama by Michael Conrad, together with Doris Bandhoff and the director Pia Frankenberg in the Helga workshop on the grounds of the Hamburg cultural center Kampnagel factory. The cinema is operated by Alabama Kino GmbH. Some of the technology, such as the projectors, was taken from the old Alabama cinema. In 1998 the company was stopped for the time being. On November 8, 2001, Christian Mattern resumed operations.

With the move to the Kampnagel cultural center, the program focus has shifted from horror, gore and sex to more demanding productions tailored to the Kampnagel theater environment.

literature

  • Peter Jäger: From a dance hall to a district cinema . In: On the trail of Eidelstedt's history . Born, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006659-4 , p. 39-42 .
  • Andrew Ruch: Cinema for breakfast . In: The daily newspaper . No. 4143 , October 21, 1999, ISSN  1434-4459 , p. 19 ( online [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  • Ulrike Bals: Play me the song of death . In: The daily newspaper . No. 5912 , August 14, 1999, ISSN  1434-4459 , p. 24 ( online [accessed December 15, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg Alabama. In: Kikowiki. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Max Nölke, Dustin Balsing, Jannik Golek: Sweet Home on Kampnagel: A portrait of the Alabama cinema. In: Fink.Hamburg. October 11, 2019, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alabama. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Eidelstedter Lichtspiele. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
  5. ^ Photo of Haus Doppeleiche from July 20, 1943 at www.ekulturell.de
  6. ↑ a b c d e Peter Jäger: From dance hall to district cinema . In: On the trail of Eidelstedt's history . Born, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006659-4 , p. 39-42 .
  7. ↑ a b c Hamburg Alabama (Eidelstedter Lichtspiele). In: Kikowiki. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Barberina light plays. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Hamburg Barberina Eidelstedt. In: Kikowiki. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Ulrike Bals: Play me the song of death . In: The daily newspaper . No. 5912 , August 14, 1999, ISSN  1434-4459 , p. 24 ( online [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  11. ^ A b Andrew Ruch: Cinema for breakfast . In: The daily newspaper . No. 4143 , October 21, 1999, ISSN  1434-4459 , p. 19 ( online [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  12. ↑ Alabama. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '59.4 "  N , 10 ° 1' 14.3"  E