Apollo Theater (Nuremberg)

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Apollo Theater (1910)
Interior (1917)
Street view around 1900

The Apollo Theater was a theater , vaudeville and cinematographic theater in Pfannenschmiedsgasse 22 in Nuremberg .

history

The Apollo Theater was built in 1896 at Pfannenschmiedsgasse 22 as a new building at the Hotel Wittelsbach next to the armory . It opened on July 11, 1896. The building owner and operator was the hotelier and businessman Johann Baptist Zetlmeier (1858–1933), the architect was Emil Hecht from Nuremberg. The hall had more than 2000 seats in the stalls and the boxes as well as a stage. Variety events, operettas , comedies , theater, artist and acrobatic performances took place in the theater . Important national and international artists such as the legendary escape artist Houdini , the Japanese cable stayed artist Little All Right, the Australian dancer Saharet , the acrobatic family Sylvester Schäffer , the singer and comedian Otto Reutter , the American high-wire artist Bird Millman and the cabaret artist Hermann Strebel performed in the theater among many others.

In 1914, Ludwig Ruff carried out a renovation and the first film screenings were integrated into the variety program. After Zetlmeier had to sell the hotel and the theater due to bankruptcy, he continued to run the variety show. Otto Hiller was appointed director, under whom the hall was converted into a cinema with 1700 seats in 1927, which had a Welte cinema organ . In 1937 the hall was rebuilt, the cinema was stopped and converted to variety.

The Apollo Theater was destroyed in a bomb attack in January 1945. In 1947 a cinema opened again in the makeshift hall. In 1954 the "Union Vereinigte Kaufstätten GmbH" Munich (Hertie department store) bought the complex and the cinema was closed. After the demolition, a Hertie department store was built, which existed from 1956 to 1997. In 1999 the “City-Point” department store was reopened in the converted building.

From 1961 to 1996 there was a cinema in the Vorderen Sterngasse that was also called Apollo . It had only the name in common with the Apollo Theater.

Personalities

People who have worked in the theater

literature

  • Brigitte Meyer: Old Nuremberg hospitality, memories of hotels, restaurants, excursion bars, cafés and variety shows. Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-88034-282-2 .
  • Alexander Schmidt: Culture in Nuremberg 1918–1933. Weimar Modernism in the Province. Sandberg-Verlag, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 3-930699-43-5 ( preview in Google book search).
  • Helmut Beer, Heinz Glaser: Nürnberger Wirtshausgrüße, Nuremberg in postcards around 1900 , Volume 4. W. Tümmels Buchdruckerei and Verlag, Nuremberg 1996, ISBN 3-921590-40-X .
  • Charlotte Bühl, Herbert Heinzelmann: Apollo Theater . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 . ( online ).
  • Herbert Heinzelmann: Nuremberg cinema history . Series of articles in the Nürnberger Zeitung from August 28 to October 13, 1995.
  • Jürgen Wolff (Ed.): From the cinematograph to the CineCitta. History and stories of the cinemas in Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen . Koberger & Kompany Verlag, Nuremberg 1995.
  • Loose-leaf collection of the Nürnberger-Archiv-Verlag: Nürnberger Industriekultur, No. 06059, Apollotheater .

Web links

Commons : Apollo Theater  - Collection of Pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Matthias Weinrich: Apollo Theater (Nuremberg). In: www.nuernberginfos.de. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Martin Schieber: History of Nuremberg. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56465-9 , p. 124 ( preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Little All Right. ( Memento of February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: www.dramatispersonae.com. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Herman Strebel. ( Memento from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: www.buchhausschrenk.de. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  5. ^ Martin Schieber: History of Nuremberg. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56465-9 , p. 146 ( preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ Rudolf Käs, Klaus-Jürgen Sembach, Siegfried Zehlnhefer, Helmut Schwarz: Under the swastika: Everyday life in Nuremberg, 1933-1945. Hugendubel Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-88034-659-8 , p. 165 ( preview in Google book search).
  7. ↑ Cityscapes through the ages. In: www.nordbayern.de. February 1, 2012, accessed February 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nuremberg department stores in the post-war period. In: www.nordbayern.de. August 11, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '58 "  N , 11 ° 4' 39.5"  E