Camera (Lübeck)
The camera was a Lübeck cinema .
The former Schwerin cinema owner Willy Dührkop , who had fled the GDR , had started plans to open a cinema in Lübeck in October 1950. The so-called Fountain Hall in the Colosseum event building at Kronsford Allee 25 in the St. Jürgen district , which was owned by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , seemed suitable for him .
It turned out that Dührkop was only able to implement his plan with difficulty: music lovers rejected the conversion of the concert hall into a cinema as inappropriate, and fears were expressed that the cinema could lead to noise pollution. Because of these obstacles, the renovation could not begin until April 1951. On July 6th, the camera , which offered a total of 389 viewers, was opened. With a range of films for high demands, the program was aimed specifically at attracting interested visitors not only from the district but from the entire city area.
After a few years Dührkop was unable to continue running the camera ; the cinema was taken over by Kurt Wittenberg , who already ran the Burgtor-Lichtspiele and the Holstentor-Lichtspiele . Wittenberg did not change the concept of selected films.
At the end of February 1969, the camera ceased operations because the building was about to be demolished. The farewell announcements announced that the cinema in the planned new building was to be reopened at the same location, but that no longer happened in view of the general crisis in theaters and the cinema dying. Wittenberg took over the technical equipment of the camera - including the film projectors and the screen - in his new cinema atelier , which opened in July 1971.
See also
literature
- Petra Schaper: Cinemas in Lübeck . Verlag Graphische Werkstätten GmbH, Lübeck 1987. ISBN 3-925402-35-7