Apollo (Hanover)

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The Apollokino at Limmerstrasse 50

The Studio of Film Art - Apollo is a: (Apollo short) district - cinema in a backyard of Limmerstraße in Hanover district Linden-Nord in Germany . It is one of the oldest still performing theaters in northern Germany and one of the first cinemas in Germany.

history

Passage to the “Apollo-Kino” and “ DESiMOs Spezial Club ”, before that the stumbling block for Jehovah's Witness Elsa Cranz
DESiMO also regularly organizes its cabaret and cabaret series in the hall of the Apollo cinema, with some international guest artists and actors

The theater was opened in September 1908 by the 23-year-old Wilhelmine Kaufmann in the former Sander dance hall . Silent films (often several short films ) accompanied by the piano were initially shown to the audience on 300 seats and standing room . Since 1912, full-length productions with well-known actors such as Asta Nielsen , Pola Negri and Harry Piel have also been shown. At the beginning of the 1930s, the company switched to sound film .

During the Second World War , a bomb hit in the neighboring house in November 1944 made it impossible to continue operating the cinema. In June 1945, shortly after the end of the war, the director of the cinema Wilhelmine Kaufmann died. On July 24, 1945, the cinema was reopened under the direction of her daughter Jutta and her husband Henk ter Horst. At the opening, the film " Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n " with Charlie Rivel by Wolfgang Staudte was shown. In the 1950s, American productions were shown in the Apollo cinema, including films with Gregory Peck , John Wayne , Richard Widmark .

With the spread of television in the 1960s and 1970s and the associated closure of many cinemas in Germany, the Apollo also ran into increasing difficulties. This trend was broken in the Apollo by the student Hans-Joachim Flebbe , who in 1973, as a member of the film club at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, asked the cinema owner at the box office whether he could make film suggestions. Flebbe had high-quality entertainment films shown for the mostly student audience with great success and made the Apollo one of the first German arthouse cinemas . As a result, the number of moviegoers at the Apollo rose from 25,000 to 135,000 in one year; Flebbe is known today as the founder of Cinemaxx AG .

The backyard cinema was destroyed on May 5, 1981 by a fire caused by a cigarette butt . The cinema was renovated, and old stucco on the ceiling was exposed again. It reopened on August 1, 1981 with the stoner comedy Much Smoke About Nothing . After Henk ter Horst's death in 1985, the cinema was initially run by his wife and their daughters Jutta ter Horst and Jennike Lau, and since 2001 it has belonged to the United Cinema Companies . Today the cinema has 201 seats and is equipped with modern sound technology ( Dolby Stereo SR ) and projection technology ( 35 mm , digital ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Apollokino (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Stosch: Moving pictures, moving history . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . August 20, 2008, ZDB -ID 43261-1 , p. 19 .
  2. ↑ The cinema. In: Apollokino.de . United Kino Betriebe GmbH, accessed on August 21, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 26.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 24.9"  E