Artur Mest
Artur Heinrich Albert Mest (born June 20, 1875 in Hanover , † March 22, 1934 in Magdeburg ) was a German cinema entrepreneur .
Since October 1906, Mest and his wife Johanna have been running the Central Theater Cinema at Ernst-August-Platz No. 5 in Hanover . After the couple separated, Mest went to Magdeburg and founded the Kammerlichtspiele GmbH , which initially owned six and later fourteen cinemas in the city. There were also two cinemas in Aschersleben and, from the early 1930s , the Delta Palace and the UT Lichtspiele in Lübeck .
Artur Mest is buried in the Westfriedhof in Magdeburg .
His influential cinema group was effectively dissolved in 1942 when, due to the regulation for the protection of small and medium-sized enterprises among the German film theaters, no company - with the express exception of Ufa - was allowed to own more than four cinemas; the number continued to decrease when the cinemas included one or more houses with more than 800 seats. Only the Lübeck UT-Lichtspiele, now renamed Capitol , remained for his second wife Gertrud Mest , who had taken over the management of the Kammerlichtspiele GmbH.
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7
Web links
- Cinema history of Hanover
- From the history of the film in Aschersleben
- Magdeburg's departure into the modern age (PDF file; 6.60 MB)
- Magdeburg cemeteries and burial grounds (PDF file; 4.70 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Magdeburg-Altstadt, No. 561/1934
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mest, Artur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mest, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cinema entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1934 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |